Azure Local ships with health alerts, platform metrics, Insights and Resource Health, but none of it is wired to a person and plain Hyper-V VMs are invisible to Azure. This post walks through a Bicep baseline that routes the right signals and watches the state …
Azure Local small form factor is in preview, and you don’t need a NUC to try it. In part 1 I prepare the subscription, check the permissions, build a Hyper-V VM with the maintenance environment and …
Every control in this series is only real if something fires when it drifts. This post gives you twelve Azure Monitor alert rules as deployable Bicep, each mapped to a step in the attack chain, with …
Azure Local 2610 brings practical improvements to cluster servicing, security management and SAN deployments. Operators get combined OS and OEM updates, a clearer solution health summary and more …
Part I of a three-part series on securing Azure Virtual Desktop. The trust boundary, the attack chain, and the takeaways worth acting on before you touch a single setting.
Part II of the AVD security series – closing the identity and operating system gaps, from RBAC and Conditional Access through Trusted Launch, local admin, Defender and the image pipeline.
Part III of the AVD security series – the network path, the session boundary, profile data protection, and building detection that somebody actually reads.
The 2024 post made sure the data was there. This one makes it useful. A free Azure Monitor workbook for AVD session hosts with seven tabs, a supplemental Data Collection Rule in Bicep, the KQL behind …
Microsoft has shipped Azure Local 2609 (solution version 12.2609.1003.7, OS build 26100.33438). It is a maintenance release: reliability fixes, refreshed .NET and PowerShell, and new private path …
Azure Local Day 2 operations: a free Azure Monitor workbook for CPU, memory, storage, host balance and VM density, plus the DCR and KQL to validate it.
Alex ter Neuzen