For my customer I had to set up the VMM Delegated Administrator role for their Tenant Operations team in order to gain ‘connect to console’ functionality (without providing too much additional rights in the VMM console). Setting up delegated user roles is in fact very easy to follow: https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg696971.aspx Trying this out in the QA environment […]
Microsoft has decades-long experience building enterprise software and running some of the largest online services in the world. It has leveraged this to implement and continuously improve security-aware software development, operational management, and threat mitigation practices that are essential to the strong protection of data in the cloud. Security is built into Azure from the […]
Today I received a customer notification that their Windows Azure Pack Portal for Tenants was no longer available and the webpage was showing ‘500 internal Server Error’. This error code is pretty general, but we soon noticed that on the ADFS part, the certificate for signing the tokens was automatically renewed and as the new ADFS […]
Datacenter Firewall is a new service included with Windows Server Technical Preview. It is a network layer, 5-tuple (protocol, source and destination port numbers, source and destination IP addresses), stateful, multitenant firewall. When deployed and offered as a service by the service provider, tenant administrators can install and configure firewall policies to help protect their […]
Malware Exclusions When building a Microsoft Private Cloud environment, Windows Server & System center are your main building blocks. Most likely, you will not only want to protect your investment, but also to get the most out of it right? To achieve that you will need to follow best practices as much as possible, and this takes time, as it […]