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For higher education leaders, the most important AI question is often not whether the technology works. It is whether the institution can make it available broadly, safely, and quickly enough to...

August 26 2026 Blog

Your Projects, Now Easier to Share, Plus Smarter Filters, Comment Controls, and a Clearer View of Context

TLDR: This release turns Projects from a personal workspace into a collaborative one. You can now share a Project with your team and control exactly what each collaborator can do, without needing an...

August 24 2026 Blog

A licensing agreement is not a campus-wide AI strategy

Higher education’s Shadow AI problem is changing. The first wave was easy to recognize: faculty, staff, and students using public generative AI tools without institutional oversight. Today, many...

August 04 2026 Blog

Introducing Projects, Group Budgets, and a New Way to See Usage

TLDR: This release is about turning individual AI usage into organizational infrastructure. Projects give people a workspace to organize context instead of a chat that forgets everything on close,...

July 31 2026 Blog

Build 2026, Read From the Higher-Ed CIO’s Chair

I've been going to Microsoft's big conferences for more than a decade now, and before I dive into what my hot takes are from this most recent iteration, I want to start by acknowledging something...

June 24 2026 Blog

June nebulaONE Product Release: Three Updates That Change How You Work with AI

This release is a meaningful one because it addresses three areas that have quietly been friction points for anyone trying to use AI seriously at work: consistency, visibility,...

June 15 2026 Blog

The Frontier Awards: What They Are, Why They Matter, and Who Won!

In February 2026, we announced something new and intentionally bold. The Frontier Awards were created to recognize the people who don’t wait for permission to move AI forward. The ones who...

May 06 2026 Blog

5 Things Healthcare Leaders Need to Know About AI Right Now

I just spent three days at HIMSS 2026. The conversation about AI in healthcare sounds nothing like what's being written about it. There was little of the headline-driven speculation about AI...

April 23 2026 Blog

How Cloudforce is Building the “Frontier Force,” Through Company-Wide Hackathons

At Cloudforce, we believe many of the best ideas for AI innovation are already inside the building, they just need the right space to come to life. In alignment with Microsoft’s push for...

April 16 2026 Blog

From Hackathons to Hope Kits: Cloudforce for Good’s 2025 Year of Giving Back

At Cloudforce, giving back is one of our core values. Through Cloudforce for Good, we put that value into action by expanding access to education, supporting our communities, and empowering the...

April 07 2026 Blog

FabCon 2026: The Shift from Data Platforms to AI Platforms

FabCon 2026 made one thing clear: Microsoft is bringing its data stack into one platform, built for AI. This year's conference drew over 8,000 attendees to Atlanta, and for the first time,...

April 02 2026 Blog

You Don’t Need Another Agent

We are witnessing a massive shift in the enterprise AI landscape. For the last few years, the entire industry has been laser-focused on model intelligence and capabilities, chasing higher benchmarks,...

March 26 2026 Blog

Breaking New Ground: Announcing the Frontier Awards Program

Somewhere in your orbit, there's someone who didn't wait for permission to push AI forward. They built the agent. They drove the adoption. They turned skeptics into believers and pilots into...

February 25 2026 Blog

Building AI Agents That Work: A Practical Guide for Enterprises

AI agents are quickly becoming the next frontier of enterprise technology. These systems promise to handle complex tasks, integrate with business workflows, and deliver value through natural...

January 29 2026 Blog

Looking Back at 2025: A Year of Metamorphosis

When I sat down to think about all the things I could write about to sum up the year, it immediately felt overwhelming. So much has changed about our organization; the customers we serve, the product...

January 01 2026 Blog

AI for All: Insights from On-Site Training Across the UK

As a consultancy positioning ourselves as the human touch behind tech, it should come as no surprise that our criteria for success aren’t solely demonstrated by profit margins. Just as...

December 30 2025 Blog

Cloudforce’s nebulaONE® Surpasses 3.3 Million Users as Global Expansion Reaches Three Continents

Cloudforce has expanded nebulaONE® operations globally, now serving institutions and companies across the Americas, United Kingdom, Europe, Australia, New Zealand, and beyond. What began as...

December 18 2025 Blog

Building the Future Together: Meet the Teams Driving Cloudforce Forward

At Cloudforce, our biggest strength isn’t just the tech—it’s the people behind it. Every breakthrough, every solution, every happy client comes from a team of talented, curious, and passionate...

November 28 2025 Blog

Accelerating AI in Education: Cloudforce’s UK University Tech Tour

What happens when passionate educators, curious students, and forward-thinking innovators come together at some of the UK’s most prestigious universities? The Cloudforce team recently had the...

November 24 2025 Blog

Future Force Bootcamp: Empowering the Next Generation of AI Innovators

Last month, Cloudforce wrapped up an inspiring Future Force: AI Agent Builders Bootcamp, a 4-day immersive program designed to give students and recent graduates real-world experience in building AI...

October 31 2025 Blog

The Top 4 Workforce Trends from SHRM 25

I recently attended the SHRM (Society of Human Resource Management) conference in San Diego, CA, and the message was clear: the workplace is shifting fast, and HR leaders must keep up. Here are the...

October 20 2025 Blog

Cloudforce Expands Summer Internship Program, Investing in Local Talent and Higher Education

This summer, Cloudforce welcomed four talented students—Aadesh Kheria, Agastya Mukherjee, Rishabh Chheda, and Rohan Chintakindi—to its expanded Summer Internship Program. Running from June...

September 15 2025 Blog

How We Solved VM Uptime Monitoring for Azure and On-Prem Machines

At Cloudforce, we pride ourselves on going beyond the obvious. While our AI capabilities often take center stage, many of the solutions we’re most proud of are the ones built behind the...

July 31 2025 Blog

Choosing the Right AI Models Is Hard. Here’s How to Get It Right.

Choosing the Right AI Models Is Hard. Here’s How to Get It Right. Large Language Models (LLMs) are evolving fast and for enterprise leaders, the pressure to pick the right ones has never been...

July 11 2025 Blog

Counterstrike for a Cause: Cloudforce LAN Party Unites Teammates (and Monitors!) Across the Map

Fridays at Cloudforce are already a good time —book clubs, board games, and complimentary lunches are part of our regular rhythm —but on June 27, things got a little more…locked and...

June 30 2025 Blog

How Cloudforce Is Redefining What It Means to Be a Great Place to Work

Take a step back. Close your eyes. Now imagine working at a place where your contributions are genuinely valued, where your growth is actively invested in, where you're encouraged to live fully —...

June 20 2025 Blog

Day-to-Day DevOps Tasks Made Easy with nebulaONE® AI

In the fast-paced world of DevOps, efficiency, automation, and data-driven decision-making are crucial for success. Azure DevOps provides a powerful, comprehensive suite of tools for managing the...

April 30 2025 Blog

Higher Ed AI Projects: A Project Manager’s Perspective

Introduction In the rapidly evolving landscape of higher education, the integration of advanced technologies has become paramount. As a Cloudforce Project Manager (PM) leading the deployment of...

April 23 2025 Blog

AI Avatars: Redefining Human-Digital Interaction in the Enterprise

Originally Posted on Microsoft's Tech Community Blog, by Gana Chandrasekaran In today’s AI-driven world, businesses are constantly seeking innovative ways to humanize digital experiences. AI...

April 08 2025 Blog

Unlocking the Power of Microsoft Fabric

In today's data-driven world, businesses need robust solutions to manage, analyze, and govern their data efficiently. Microsoft Fabric emerges as a game-changer, offering an end-to-end analytics and...

April 02 2025 Blog

Microsoft Purview: Securing Your Data in the Era of AI

Microsoft Ignite 2024 set the IT world ablaze with a host of galvanizing announcements, features, and predictions on all things Copilot and AI. However, as the AI conversation continues to catch...

March 24 2025 Blog

More Than a Policy: Cloudforce’s Commitment to Inclusion and Belonging

At Cloudforce, creating a diverse and inclusive workplace is a core part of who we are. We know that when employees feel valued, seen, and supported, they flourish. And when our people thrive, so...

February 27 2025 Blog

Don’t Spill the Beans: How Private AI Keeps Your Data Safe

As artificial intelligence (AI) continues to revolutionize industries, the need for organizations to harness the power of AI responsibly and securely has never been more critical. AI's promise of...

January 21 2025 Blog

Why AI Adoption Is Critical to Maintain the Competitive Status Quo

In today’s rapidly evolving business landscape, artificial intelligence (AI) is no longer just a tool for innovation—it's becoming essential for maintaining even the competitive status quo. While...

January 09 2025 Blog

Fine Tuning A GPT Model

When we look back on 2024 regarding technology advancements and changes, there is likely one prevalent topic that will continue to pop up: AI. This year has been defined--and perhaps even...

November 07 2024 Blog

Why Now Is the Time to Become an AI Engineer

Artificial Intelligence (AI) isn’t the future; it’s happening now—like RIGHT now. From virtual assistants to algorithms powering the apps we use every day, AI is reshaping EVERYTHING around us...

October 24 2024 Blog

As AI Grows, so Does Our Knowledge of Its Weaknesses

AI—it's arguably the single largest paradigm shift in technology since the mobile boom almost 20 years ago. In fact, with the capability and capacity to redefine how organizations, entities, and...

September 20 2024 Blog

Finding the Sweet Spot: How Cloudforce Balances Culture and Productivity

A challenge that every organization faces is finding the balance between culture and productivity—let’s be real! But at Cloudforce, we’ve figured out a way to make it work. We’ve created an...

August 29 2024 Blog

Securing More than Just AI: How Custom AI Applications Can Empower Your Business and Secure an Advantage

As the global AI transformation continues, organizations are starting to embrace the new technology paradigm that has been sweeping over the world. But as organizations are engaging more and more...

August 16 2024 Blog

How to Prepare for a Career in Cloud Consulting

As a Workforce Manager who’s been soaring through the world of technical recruitment for a few years, I’m here to guide you through the steps of navigating a path towards becoming a Cloud...

July 12 2024 Blog

Exploring Copilot for Security: A Practical Overview

Microsoft’s new offering, Copilot for Security, announced earlier this year, is now generally available as a tool to assist security teams in quickly actioning security tasks using data within the...

June 28 2024 Blog

From Excellence to Inclusion: Discover Your Career at Cloudforce

How our inclusive culture fuels creativity and technological innovation. At Cloudforce, we believe that our strength lies in our people. Our vibrant, inclusive, and dynamic work environment is what...

June 27 2024 Blog

A Year of Un-Artificial Challengers: Five Tech Predictions for 2024

As a self-proclaimed futurist, I’d much rather focus my attention on what’s to come versus dwelling on the past. Not surprisingly, all roads start (and end) with artificial intelligence (AI), and...

February 20 2024 Blog

A Busy Day in the Life… for Copilot: 5 Ways Everyone Can Empower Their Productivity

The true measure of technology’s excellence lies in its accessibility, empowering even the less tech-savvy. And Microsoft nailed it. Welcome to the era of enhanced productivity with Microsoft's...

January 24 2024 Blog

Responsible AI in Action: The Intersection of AI, Inclusion, and Innovation

The Foundation of Inclusive AI: Understanding the Significance of Inclusive Data Sets In grounding a discussion on the intersection of AI inclusion and innovation at Microsoft’s Ignite...

January 17 2024 Blog

Modern Endpoint Management in the Cloud

It is that time of year again when we get a peek at the future and all the goodies that Microsoft has in store for us! Microsoft Ignite 2023 was a doozy with all things AI, Azure, and Security. I...

January 10 2024 Blog

The New Era of Cybersecurity with Microsoft Security Copilot

At this year’s Microsoft Ignite conference, everyone was watching to see what the latest improvements in artificial intelligence would bring. With Microsoft’s investment in the OpenAI project,...

December 27 2023 Blog

GitHub Copilot and AI for Developers: Potential and Pitfalls

At this year’s Microsoft Ignite conference, everyone’s favorite developer advocate, Microsoft VP of Developer Community Scott Hanselman, took to the stage for a session titled “GitHub Copilot...

December 21 2023 Blog

Picking Pennies and Three Other Mistakes in Thinking About Cybersecurity in the Age of AI

For more than a century,¹ artificial intelligence (AI) has been a specter in the pop culture zeitgeist. Stories about creations overthrowing their creators have instilled in us a fear that we may...

December 13 2023 Blog

The New Way to Internet: How Microsoft Copilot and Edge for Business Enable the AI-Powered Future of Work

Microsoft Ignite 2023 Input-based AI is the "new way to internet." It is transforming how we create, communicate, and collaborate online. But as IT decision makers, we recognize that it also poses a...

December 08 2023 Blog

VestaBot Revolution: Azure-Powered Innovation at Cloudforce

Earlier this year Cloudforce acquired the Vestaboard, a smart messaging display, and decided to include it as a permanent fixture in our office’s lobby. This new addition to our office ecosystem...

November 15 2023 Blog

How Cloudforce Uses Azure OpenAI to Create Unique Guest Experiences

At Cloudforce, we pride ourselves on being the leading force in the Microsoft cloud. This is thanks both to the immense talent we cultivate to build our teams and to our insistence on being on the...

October 25 2023 Blog

Endpoint Management in the Microsoft Cloud

In the world of IT, an endpoint refers to a computing device or a hardware device connected to a network – this includes computers/workstations, servers, and mobile devices. Endpoints are...

September 27 2023 Blog

Prepare Your Organization for Microsoft Copilot: A Productivity Revolution

In the fast-paced world of business, staying ahead of the curve often means embracing cutting-edge technologies. One such innovation that is making waves is Microsoft Copilot, an Artificial...

September 25 2023 Blog

The Future of Corporate AI: Unpacking Azure ML and GPT-4 at Microsoft Build

Over the past year, AI technologies have rapidly evolved and become widely adopted across numerous industries, leading to transformative impacts and a broad array of innovations. Microsoft Build...

August 29 2023 Blog

Microsoft’s Azure OpenAI Service: Efficient, Intuitive, and Individualized

A hush fell over the crowd as the software developer began to build service chatbots in real time. Will the test code work as expected? The Wi-Fi seems to be too slow to run the simulation!...

August 08 2023 Blog

Building a Secure and Diverse AI Ecosystem: Insights from Microsoft Build Conference

In the evolving landscape of AI technology, the possibilities are endless, but so are the challenges. As showcased during the Microsoft Build conference, building a secure and diverse AI ecosystem is...

July 19 2023 Blog

Artificial Intelligence Meets Authentic Intelligence

With all you have read about the major shift in technology by Microsoft, you may have noticed many companies making the pivot to accommodate. Your day-to-day work technology will soon be...

July 11 2023 Blog

Building a More Secure Organization Through Stronger Identity Protection

As more and more businesses enter the news cycle for security breaches, organizations are facing difficult decisions on how to best secure their data and users. According to Acronis, a global leader...

June 28 2023 Blog

AI’s Model T: The Influence of Artificial Intelligence on Global Cybersecurity

Dissecting the current demands of defense and security at this year’s Microsoft Secure conference, Microsoft Vice Chair and President Brad Smith considered the collective nature of cybersecurity...

June 21 2023 Blog

Cutting Edge and Back to Basics: CISO Perspectives on the Current Cybersecurity Environment

With Cloudforce always aiming to be cognizant of the latest emerging tech and services that Microsoft has to offer, our Champions Department constantly has its ear to the ground for the next training...

June 14 2023 Blog

Zero Trust, Maximum ROI!

As an executive who possesses far greater context for business decision-making than deploying technical security measures, I was intrigued by the title of a specific session during Secure 2023,...

June 05 2023 Blog

Going Beyond MFA: Bolstering Your Security Arsenal and User Adoption at the Same Time

Multi-factor authentication (MFA) serves as a crucial line of defense for securing your digital environment. That said, it is important to recognize that existing (dare I say, “legacy”) MFA...

May 30 2023 Blog

Microsoft Security Copilot is Here to “Address the Talent Gap”

Cybersecurity has become an increasing threat to organizations of every size and every industry across the globe. Since September of 2021, the number of password attacks increased from 579 to 1,287...

May 22 2023 Blog

Identity Security Is Worth Every Penny (and Then Some)

Every week, there seems to be a new high-profile organization in the news that has suffered from a cyberattack. This news coverage understates the fact that much smaller organizations have also...

May 15 2023 Blog

Opinion: Is Privacy the Price of Progress When It Comes to AI?

The budding emergence and proficiency of AI-enabled technology has been discussed, dreaded, and delighted in for decades. The Cloudforce team recently came face-to-face (machine-to-face?) with the...

May 08 2023 Blog

Executive Leaders Discuss Making Big Security Bets at the Microsoft Secure Conference

At the recent Microsoft Secure conference, a roundtable discussion titled "How Do Executive Leaders Make Big Security Bets for Their Businesses" brought together industry experts to share their...

May 01 2023 Blog

When MFA Is Not Enough – 5 Easy and Essential Steps for Hardening Our Identities

Sitting at the computer, brow furrowed, you try desperately to remember what you told that website your favorite sea animal was when you set up this account five years ago. Somewhere in the back of...

April 24 2023 Blog

My Microsoft AZ-104 Azure Administrator Associate Experience

My first exposure to cloud technology was through Amazon Web Services (AWS), where I obtained the basic knowledge and hands on experience to navigate the AWS platform. Throughout this initial...

January 18 2023 Blog

The Price Is Right – Thanks, Azure!

Whether it’s moving your current infrastructure to the cloud, adding new Azure services to your subscription, or needing to beef up your available resources, there is always one daunting question...

January 09 2023 Blog

The Cloud: Higher Education’s Next Secret Weapon

Over the last 12 months, our consultancy has had the privilege of engaging with several technology leaders in the higher-ed space. Their passion for creating an environment that uses technology to...

December 08 2022 Blog

A Gold Standard: Making Microsoft Work for You

As an experienced Microsoft Partner, Cloudforce has learned and earned its way into a position that allows us to make the nearly $200 billion dollar company that is Microsoft work for you. In...

November 17 2022 Blog

Can Cutting Carbon Help Businesses Cut Costs? A Move to the Cloud and a More Sustainable Future

Microsoft Inspire 2022 explored the company’s dedication to cutting carbon emissions – and challenged the notion that sustainability and efficiency are mutually exclusive. Microsoft’s growth...

November 09 2022 Blog

New Opportunities for Organizational Growth with Azure Virtual Desktop

What is Azure Virtual Desktop? Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) – initially coined Windows Virtual Desktop – launched in September of 2019. AVD allows for a fully managed desktop virtualization...

November 01 2022 Blog

Microsoft Simplifies Organizational Alignment with Release of Viva’s OKR Module

Ubiquitous to any organizational theory or model is the aspiration to motivate and direct a collection of individuals to achieve a shared goal. Simply stated, how can leadership point the boat in the...

October 25 2022 Blog

The Other Side of the House: Professional Development Opportunities for Non-Technologists

This past quarter, Cloudforce held a company-wide challenge to encourage growth and learning (with a side of friendly competition). Certification opportunities were on display in the office and the...

October 19 2022 Blog

Migrate old .NET Applications to Azure with Ease

There are plenty of reasons why an organization considers migrating its servers, applications, websites, and services to the Azure cloud. Availability, cost effectiveness, and security are three top...

October 11 2022 Blog

Unlock Your Organization’s Potential with Microsoft Marketplace

In today’s business world, it’s no secret that the role of IT has expanded. I’m not just talking about the growth of a department, but a total change in how much businesses rely on IT. Many...

October 04 2022 Blog

Hybrid Workforces Are Here to Stay… Are You Ready?

“Employees today are not the same people who went home to work in 2020. Flexibility and well-being are non-negotiable. Hybrid work is now just work.” -- Colette Stallbaumer, General Manager,...

September 27 2022 Blog

Don’t Fear the Unknown: Azure Migrations Are Nothing to Be Afraid Of!

You’ve spent months planning for your shiny new website. You herded all your stakeholders into meeting after meeting. You gathered all the requirements. You developed all the Visio...

September 19 2022 Blog

The New Here: Answering the Digital Imperative with a Hybrid Work Promise

It has become cliché to remark on the various ways in which the COVID-19 pandemic has reshaped our personal and professional lives. Here are a few examples: Today’s workplace is...

September 13 2022 Blog

Bring Your Business into the Future with Cloudforce and Microsoft Azure!

This summer's Microsoft Inspire 2022 conference began with a session about how Azure is an invaluable tool for the creation of contemporary enterprise solutions. “Power Innovation Across the...

September 07 2022 Blog

Adopting Zero Trust Security to Protect Your Organization

With today’s evolving landscape of hybrid work, businesses and their data are exposed to threats outside just their corporate networks. 81% of businesses are moving to a hybrid workspace, which...

August 30 2022 Blog

Using Platforming to Drive Business Automation

How do cloud companies continue the way of modernization? How can partners continue to provide more value to their clients using native Microsoft features? This answer to both questions is...

August 22 2022 Blog

Rethinking Virtual Desktop Infrastructure with Azure Virtual Desktop

Remote work is here to stay! In 2019 Microsoft launched Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) as part of their Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) offerings. In 2020 the business imperative to be able to...

August 15 2022 Blog

HR Strategies to Turn the Great Resignation Into the Great Retention

As a Workforce Specialist, I’ve heard a lot of mixed thoughts in the Human Resources field about the workforce and how to retain our talented employees post-pandemic. With employees in different...

August 10 2022 Blog

Microsoft Sentinel and Microsoft Defender: Protect Customers and Grow Your Business

For organizations of 2022, a SIEM (Security Incident Event Management), or any XDR solution (Extended Detection and Response), is becoming a must-have. Ransomware attacks have seen an increase of...

August 02 2022 Blog

Heba Eldien: Leading with Impact and Heart

Inspired by many great instructors in her life, Heba Eldien grew up wanting to be a teacher. In high school, Heba helped run an onsite day care facility at her school. “We did it all,” she...

July 15 2022 Blog

Remote Work: Lessons Learned from Making the Transition to an In-Home Office

Working from home has become more popular and accepted for businesses over the past couple of years, and now almost any business that only requires a computer and network access can utilize this new...

July 15 2022 Blog

How to Stand-Out and Get Hired by Cloudforce

Over the last year or so, I’ve sifted through A LOT of not-so-great resumes. Even more so, interviews with candidates who just weren’t really interested in the position, Cloudforce, or anything...

May 10 2022 Blog

File Server Auditing Using Azure Sentinel

Running audits on a file share within file server is a challenging task, especially when you do not have a budget for sophisticated file auditing tools from a third-party vendor. These tools can not...

April 09 2022 Blog

Microsoft 365 Lifecycle Management with MECM (SCCM) and Intune

Microsoft 365 (formerly Office 365) desktop applications are ubiquitous in the modern workplace. It is pretty much a given that any endpoint manager will have to deploy and manage it. Thankfully,...

March 13 2022 Blog

Leverage Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Manager (SCCM) For Security Compliance

Most organization must follow various compliance and governance frameworks either from industry or government regulations. Meeting these benchmarks can be difficult and time consuming but the...

February 17 2022 Blog

A Hitchhiker’s Guide to Managing Projects

In 2012, I took my years of tinkering and passive interest in these personal computer machines and began taking formal training in this revolution of silicon and binary to obtain knowledge,...

February 01 2022 Blog

3 Methods to Deploy Windows 10 Feature Updates Using MECM (SCCM)

With the advent of the Windows 10 Software as a Service (Saas) model it has become necessary to manage deployment of feature updates almost annually. Many federal and corporate organizations use...

January 13 2022 Blog

Reflections on Ten Years

Rewind to late 2010 - I was contemplating startup ideas in my 450 square-foot studio apartment outside of Washington DC. Would I choose to go into uncharted territory with an unfamiliar area, or...

January 10 2022 Blog

Azure Active Directory Best Practices

Azure Active Directory allows organizations to extend their on-premises directory services to the Microsoft Cloud. User identities, passwords, and attributes are synchronized to allow a simple,...

December 22 2020 Blog

The MS-700: Your Guide to Mastering Microsoft Teams

No matter what uncertainties 2020 has brought to our lives, we can be sure of two things. The first is that remote work and the technologies that enable it are here to stay. Among these tools,...

September 30 2020 Blog

MS-500: Microsoft knows what you did last summer!

Well, here we are. Staring down the barrel of another Microsoft test. The beads of sweat drip down your forehead….am I going to get multiple choice? Case Studies?? LABS?!?!?! ...

September 29 2020 Blog

Microsoft Teams Governance

Microsoft Teams is an incredibly powerful collaboration tool for organizations of all sizes. It enables users to easily connect in more ways and utilize more devices than ever before. However,...

September 22 2020 Blog

Microsoft Secure Score: Your Gateway to Security in the Cloud

If you said yes...how do you know? If you said no, then I can help you with that as well. Either way, your Secure Score is the answer! Today’s ever-evolving threats can be dangerous...

September 10 2020 Blog

Using Ephemeral OS disks to optimize Azure WVD costs

Azure Windows Virtual Desktop (WVD) is becoming more and more popular as teleworking becomes the new normal. However, maintaining an Azure WVD environment can be costly. As a cloud consultant, we...

September 02 2020 Blog

Local Security Authority cannot be contacted [Fixed!]

So, you created a new VM using Azure snapshot but can’t log into it. You’ve tried everything you can think of. It’s 1AM. You’ve been to 20 forums, ran 30 Google searches and have less hair...

August 03 2020 Blog

How I Passed the MS-900 and How You Can Too!

If you’ve been in the IT industry for a bit, you’ve likely interacted with MS365, if only for managing email for clients and you’ve certainly heard of OneDrive, Sharepoint and…Yammer? If...

April 30 2020 Blog

Guide to Taking and Passing the AZ-900 Exam

Coming from a background in healthcare, I had no prior knowledge of cloud computing or any tech really, apart from the basics and a little web design experience. I originally set a goal to pass the...

April 07 2020 Blog

What to Do When Azure Web App Backups Keep Failing

Azure web app backups can fail for a variety of reasons. Recently, I had a web app fail for a reason I hadn't seen before. I was certain that my backups were working correctly... nope. Not...

November 25 2019 Blog

Dealing with over-sized disks in Azure

How to downsize a data disk on an Azure VM Even with the best intentions, we often find that customers have dozens or hundreds of virtual machines in Azure which are using a small fraction...

October 23 2019 Blog

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