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Series: Exploring Microsoft Azure Landing Zone Best Practices – Chapter 3. Designing your Azure Landing Zone
EXAMOLWelcome to the blog series: Exploring Microsoft Azure Landing Zone Best Practices. In this series, we will dive deep into the concept of the Azure Landing Zone and explore the best practices that organizations can follow to design, implement, and manage...
Series: Exploring Microsoft Azure Landing Zone Best Practices – Chapter 2. Planning your Azure Landing Zone
Welcome to the blog series: Exploring Microsoft Azure Landing Zone Best Practices. In this series, we will dive deep into the concept of the Azure Landing Zone and explore the best practices that organizations can follow to design, implement, and manage their Azure...
Series: Exploring Microsoft Azure Landing Zone Best Practices – Chapter 1. Understanding the Azure Landing Zone
Welcome to the blog series: Exploring Microsoft Azure Landing Zone Best Practices. In this series, we will dive deep into the concept of the Azure Landing Zone and explore the best practices that organizations can follow to design, implement, and...
Solution Guide: Resize Azure VM OS Disk
In this Solution Guide we will look at reducing an already deployed Azure VM's OS Disk with the objective of bringing down our Storage Costs: For this guide I deployed a new VM in Azure: Something to note, Trusted Launch does not support this process without some more...
Solution Guide: Azure Arc Patching using Update Management: Part 2 Deploying Updates
In this Solution Guide we will focus on the deploying of Microsoft Security patches to our Arc onboarded devices. Start by navigating to the Update Management Center: Azure Update Management Center Portal Next, click on Schedule Updates, here you can add a new...
Solution Guide: Azure Arc Patching using Update Management: Part 1 Azure Policy
In this Solution Guide we pick up where we left off after Arc Onboarding our on prem devices. Once we have our Connected Machine Agents deployed and we can see our devices are listed in Azure, we can start to focus on the patching options available to them. Start by...
Solution Guide: Azure Arc Onboarding at Scale using Group Policy
In this guide we focus on the prerequisites and steps needed to onboard on prem servers to Azure Arc. In order to connect your systems to Arc, there are a few options to choose from, check out the options available to you using the below link:...
In the News: Microsoft partners SA firm to roll out Zero Trust Adoption Framework
South Africa-based Microsoft solution partner and IT services firm NBConsult has assisted Microsoft to roll out a Zero Trust Adoption Framework to support businesses in their migration from a traditional security approach to one of zero trust. The framework is...
App Review: Trippy
During recent troubleshooting on Windows I felt I needed more from the CLI built in toolset and wondered if there are admins who feel the same? At some point engineers find themselves working on network traces in order to resolve routine maintenance issues and while...
ABOUT DONAVAN SCHAPER
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Over the course of 10 years Donavan has dedicated his work life to solving complex issues for global enterprises in the form of consulting advisory on services and solutions ranging from VDI, IOT, BCDR, Identity Management, SaaS / PaaS / IaaS Infrastructure and Endpoint Management.
