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Scaling AI Storage: Azure Managed Lustre excels in MLPerf Storage v3.0

Azure / By / Published / Updated 09/02/2026 / 6 minutes of reading

In large scale AI clusters storage is responsible for delivering training data fast enough to keep accelerators busy and completing checkpoint saves and recoveries quickly enough to avoid costly stalls. MLPerf Storage is an industry-standard benchmark developed by MLCommons that reproduces the I/O patterns of different stages of AI pipelines covering training, checkpointing, context cache […]

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Active Directory Domain Services modules on Microsoft Learn

Administration / By / Published / Updated 09/28/2026 / 8 minutes of reading

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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Operating Azure Backup at Scale: Day-2 Excellence for IaaS, PaaS, and Storage Workloads

Administration / By / Published / Updated 09/28/2026 / 7 minutes of reading

Hello Folks! If you have ever inherited a sprawling Azure environment and quietly wondered whether every VM, database, AKS cluster, and storage account in it is actually being backed up the way the business thinks it is, you are in good company. In session this session of the Microsoft Azure Infra Summit 2026, Bhavya Tadikonda

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Zonal Resiliency in Azure: Application-Centric Goals, Recovery Plans, and Drills

Administration / By / Published / Updated 09/28/2026 / 7 minutes of reading

Hello Folks  If you have ever stared at a multi-tier app in Azure and asked yourself, “Is this actually going to survive a zone outage?”, you are not alone. In session MAIS23 of the Microsoft Azure Infra Summit 2026, Bhavya, Aditya, and Chaya from the Azure Resiliency product team walked us through the new Resiliency

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Lessons Learned #551: Azure SQL Connection Timeouts: Three Things to Check

SQL Server / By / Published / Updated 08/05/2026 / 5 minutes of reading

An application starts reporting intermittent timeouts when connecting to Azure SQL Database. Some requests succeed, others fail, and a test from a developer’s laptop works perfectly. The database appears online, no recent deployment seems related, and the natural reaction is to ask: Is Azure SQL unavailable? Is the firewall blocking the connection? Should we increase

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Setting Up Microsoft Intune Remote Help on Azure Virtual Desktop

Azure / By / Published / Updated 08/02/2026 / 7 minutes of reading

Remote Help lets your helpdesk team screen-share, chat with, and (with the right permission) take elevated control of a user’s session — including AVD multi-session hosts where several users can be active on the same VM at once. This is a two-part walkthrough. Part 1 covers enabling Remote Help at the tenant level and doing

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Azure Files, Reimagined: Top-Level Shares with Per-Share Networking, Billing, and Scale

Administration / By / Published / Updated 09/28/2026 / 7 minutes of reading

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

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Some tools and techniques for hardening Windows Server

Administration / By / Published / Updated 09/28/2026 / 27 minutes of reading

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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Design the Network Before You Deploy: Best Practices for Microsoft Foundry Standard Agents BYOVNet

Artificial Intelligence / By / Published / Updated 07/22/2026 / 16 minutes of reading

Ask any enterprise team standing up Microsoft Foundry in production and you’ll hear the same non-negotiable: the agent can’t run on the open internet. The moment it touches proprietary data, internal APIs, or regulated workloads, security wants it inside the company’s own virtual network — behind private endpoints, a central firewall, and controlled DNS. That

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Trusted Launch for virtual machines on Windows Server Insider Preview

Administration / By / Published / Updated 07/21/2026 / 2 minutes of reading

Microsoft has released Windows Server vNext Preview Build 29621, and one feature stands out as a major step forward for on‑premises virtualization security: Trusted Launch for Generation 2 virtual machines. This capability, long familiar to Azure users, is now arriving in Windows Server for local Hyper‑V environments. What Trusted Launch Brings to Windows Server Trusted

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