Governance is one of the major adoption challenges when it comes to cloud computing. Organizations find themselves "not ready" to consume cloud services whether that perception is more a gut feeling or comes from experience. Microsoft works hard to built a rich toolset to cover many aspects of governance such…
The data available through the Office 365 Security & Compliance Center contains data for all entities stored in that particular Office 365 / Azure Active Directory tenant. Many customers have different business entities that work with the same tenant but have roles within their subordinate companies that needs to access or ingest…
A while ago I wrote an article on how to estimate data consumption for Log Analytics. [https://blog.peterschen.de/data-volume-estimation-for-log-analytics/] Since then there were changes to the way that Log Analytics tracks the volume and the cost associated with data flowing into the workspace. The documentation on standard properties…
The data available through the Office 365 Security & Compliance Center contains data for all entities stored in that particular Office 365 / Azure Active Directory tenant. Many customers have different business entities that work with the same tenant but have roles within their subordinate companies that needs to access or ingest…
Today I was honored to present Server Management for hybrid environments as part of the Virtual Windows Server Summit 2019 webcast. Markus Klein [https://twitter.com/DrAzureStack] and I have been talking about hybrid backup with Azure Backup and hybrid patching with Azure Update Management. Recordings will be available shortly…
In most enterprise environments governance dictates how alerting for a certain resource needs to look like. Until just recently Azure Monitor only supported to configure alerts based on individual resources and this had to be replicated throughout the organization. Alert scope selection with available signals for a Resource Group and…
Deploying resources and workloads at scale requires a healthy amount of automation. Automation helps to deliver consistent and repeatable results. I've tried to categorize some of the technology and provide some pointers to areas of application and pros and cons. Note: this is not an exhaustive list but tries to…
A request that I get many times is to provide guidance and best-practices on how to implement monitoring and operations management with and/or for Azure. Most organizations have subtle differences which makes it hard to put out a generic concept of how to enable this. There are high-level ideas…