The following is a list of Active Directory Domain Services modules on Microsoft Learn sorted from introductory to advanced. Is there an Active Directory topic that isn’t listed here that you’d like to see covered? (AD CS modules are coming). If you know all this, remember we have the free 45 minute practical Active Directory […]
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Hello Folks! If you have ever wrestled with Azure Files inside a storage account, juggling shared RBAC, shared networking, and shared IOPS across a pile of shares that really should not live together, this session is going to address all that. During Microsoft Azure Infra Summit 2026, Vincent Du and Will Gries (both Product Managers
In this post I go over some tools and techniques exist for hardening Windows Server. As always, apply controls according to the server’s role, test them against representative workloads before production rollout, document approved exceptions, and maintain tested console and recovery access in case a security control affects management or application compatibility. Apply the role-specific
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Hello Folks! If you are running AI workloads on Azure, you have probably learned the hard way that the wrong storage choice can leave a rack of very expensive GPUs sitting idle, waiting for data. In this session during the Microsoft Azure Infra Summit 2026, Wolfgang de Salvador and Reena Shah from the Azure Storage
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Hello Folks! If you have ever stared at an HPC pipeline and wondered why the queue depth keeps climbing while every CPU graph looks lazy, this session from the Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Summit 2026 is going to feel very familiar. Ron Hogue from the Azure Storage team and Ranga Sankar from NetApp spend twenty-seven minutes
Hello Folks! If you have ever run a Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) estate, you know the recurring riddle. The session hosts are designed to be stateless and pooled, yet every user expects a persistent Outlook profile, their OneDrive cache, their pinned apps, and a sub-ten-second logon. In this session at the Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Summit
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Hello Folks! If you have ever been asked to move all our file shares to the cloud ASAP. You already know that storage migration is one of those projects that looks easy on a slide and gets ugly in reality. In this session at the Microsoft Azure Infra Summit 2026, Anusha Subramanian and Madhuri Narayana
If your AVD environment is built entirely on cloud-only or external Entra ID identities — no on-prem AD, no Entra Domain Services — you can still give users FSLogix roaming profiles on Azure Files. Microsoft Entra Kerberos handles the ticket issuance, so the storage account can authenticate users over SMB without any line-of-sight to a
Laps for Azure Arc Hear from Windows Server product leaders on recent innovations and updates in Windows Server 2025, hybrid and multi-cloud scenarios enabled by Azure Arc, and best practices and real‑world considerations to help you run a more secure, resilient, and modern cloud-to-edge infrastructure Innovation of Windows Server Hyper-V Windows Server & Hyper‑V: Key
If you have been researching Microsoft’s zero trust network access offering and found yourself confused by “Global Secure Access,” “Entra Private Access,” and “Internet Access” all appearing in the same sentence, you are not alone. The naming is genuinely confusing, even for architects who work in the Microsoft ecosystem daily. This article cuts through the
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