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 the compliance pertaining to their entity.

A while ago I wrote an article on how to estimate data consumption 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 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 the compliance pertaining to their entity.

Today I was honored to present Server Management for hybrid environments as part of the Virtual Windows Server Summit 2019 webcast. Markus Klein and I have been talking about hybrid backup with Azure Backup and hybrid patching with Azure Update Management.

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.

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.

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 but in my discussions with customers and partners I’m hearing that this is not detailed enough.

I’ve learned about a “hidden feature” recently that enables some cool scenarios. Log Analytics or Azure Data Explorer aficionados will probably know all about functions already but for Application Insights this has not been documented yet and is not visible through the Azure portal.

When deploying Azure File Sync one question many customers routinely ask is how the network bandwidth required can be calculated. This depends of course on a variety of factors.

The most prominent factor is churn rate. How much data is changed over time. It is best to look at this rate with an hourly resolution so that seasonality can be accounted for (user-centric shares will have much more churn throughout working hours).

A colleague of mine, Tyler Ayers, has written a pretty neat Azure Function that tracks changes made to Azure Resource Manager Providers (ARM) and show these changes in a timeline.

The details will give you a clear overview what has been changed and where (which region) that change is available. This helps to see changes to resource providers and adapt existing ARM templates if required.