Experiencing Latency, Data Loss issue, and alerting issues in West Central US-03/15-Investigating

Initial Update: Sunday, 15 March 2020 21:40 UTCWe are aware of issues within Application Insights and Azure Log Analytics and are actively investigating. Some customers may experience Latency and Data Loss, configuration failures for alerts, misfired a… Continue reading Experiencing Latency, Data Loss issue, and alerting issues in West Central US-03/15-Investigating

Azure Policy Initiatives vs Azure Policies: When should I use one over the other?

A question I often get asked is what’s the difference between Azure policy and Azure initiatives. Why would I use one over the other? In typical IT fashion I answer with “it depends”.  This blog will answer those questions by review both azure ser… Continue reading Azure Policy Initiatives vs Azure Policies: When should I use one over the other?

Azure Sentinel: Syslog, CEF, Logstash and other 3rd party connectors grand list

Most network and security systems support either Syslog or CEF (which stands for Common Event Format) over Syslog as means for sending data to a SIEM. This makes Syslog or CEF the most straight forward ways to stream security and networking events to A… Continue reading Azure Sentinel: Syslog, CEF, Logstash and other 3rd party connectors grand list

Orchestrate the compilation of software dependencies with Azure Machine Learning Pipelines

In a previous blog post, I discussed various approaches to resolving complex software and hardware dependencies in Azure DevOps pipelines. In this blog post, I want to discuss an alternative, lightweight approach to the same problem: Using Azure Machin… Continue reading Orchestrate the compilation of software dependencies with Azure Machine Learning Pipelines

New IoT MS Learn modules, new partnerships and more #ThisWeekInIoT

Looking for interesting readings, watching and hands-on projects for your weekend, while catching up on latest news and updates about IoT at and around Microsoft? Here is your weekly digest.
It seems no week passes without it’s load of new partnerships… Continue reading New IoT MS Learn modules, new partnerships and more #ThisWeekInIoT

Azure Lab Services Creators: Create Classroom Labs walk through and best practice

The process for publishing a Azure Lab Services, Lab to your students can take up to several hours depending on the number of VMs that will be created in your lab.  You should give yourself at least a day to set up a lab to ensure that it’s workin… Continue reading Azure Lab Services Creators: Create Classroom Labs walk through and best practice