Windows Service Monitoring at Scale using Cloud Native Azure Components
Recently, I was challenged to build a scalable, cloud native solution that should be used for monitoring of critical Windows …
Troubleshooting & Monitoring of Log Ingestion with Data Collection Rules
As I have outlined in the series of blogs, Azure Logging is based on Data Collection Rules (DCRs) and Azure …
Optimize Costs using Auxiliary Logs for Verbose Logging
Today, we use logging for many purposes including security hunting with SIEM (Sentinel), troubleshooting, performance telemetry, compliance reporting – but …
“No Internet access” on Azure VM in new VNET Subnet
Struggling to get internet access from a newly deployed VM in Azure on a new subnet, then check if VM …
Detect Impact MFA Enforcement
You may have noticed that Microsoft will enforce MFA requirement per October 15, 2024 for Azure/Entra/Intune. If this is new …
WINDOWS SERVER AUG2024 PATCH ISSUES | KB5041578
I have seen big problems with KB5041578 on Windows 2019 causing disk i/o issues with massive writes to c:\windows\catroot2\edb.log. In …
CrowdStrike issue: Workarounds
From X/Twitter. Thx to @r3srch3r for summarization. Physical machine physical server VM on Hyper-V VM on AWS VM on Azure …
Azure Monitor alerting with Azure Resource Graph data – using Azure LogAnalytics integration
If you need to get an Azure Monitor alert using Azure Resource Graph data, this can easily be accomplished using …
Entra Private Access/GSA – Automatic Network Detection
This blog covers a custom script solution for Intune, that can be used to automatically detect, if the Entra Private …
MFA issues for Invited guest – Cause: Cross-Tenant Access due to Partner Relationship
This blog is about an issue, I experienced when I was invited as Guest to a tenant, where cross-tenant access …