Azure Arc Enable Azure Arc Auto Updates using Azure Portal

Azure Arc – Enable Azure Arc Auto Updates using Azure Portal

Azure Arc Auto Updates is key, as the foundation of your hybrid cloud strategy and it’s single contral plane in Azure is the Connected Machine Agent. While we often focus…

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WinGet and IaC – Take Winget to the next level

WinGet and IaC are maybe your next step to automate your environment. In the past, managing third-party applications on Windows meant 3rd party tools or gathering MSI installers on network…

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Azure Bastion Developer SKU: Secure Access Without the “Bastion Tax”

In the past, securing your Azure Virtual Machines (VMs) often felt like a trade-off between security and budget. If you wanted to avoid the risks of exposing RDP or SSH…

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How to Uninstall AzureArcSetup 2026

How to Uninstall Azure Arc from Windows Server 2026

Why do we need to Uninstall Azure Arc or Azure Arc Setup? Windows Server 2025 ships with the Azure Arc Setup feature baked in. You’ll notice a new tray icon…

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VPN Ubiquiti UniFi UDM to Azure (2026 Edition)

Update: This guide replaces my original article located here with this VPN Ubiquiti UniFi UDM to Azure (2026 Edition). In the past, we relied on the Basic VPN Gateway and…

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Timing & Trust in Architecture: My View on Secure Future Initiative Progress Report 2025

In this article you’ll explore how security, governance and lifecycle risk converge in modern infrastructure, why the recent Microsoft SFI report matters for hybrid-cloud and on-prem environments, and how you…

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Azure Arc – Secure a Tier 0 resource – 2025

Secure a Tier 0 resource in 2025 and why traditional ESAE architectures solved early Tier 0 challenges but are no longer sufficient in an era of hybrid and cloud-native identities….

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Why Microsoft 365 Local Matters: A Real Future for Disconnected & Sovereign On-Premises Environments

Why Microsoft 365 Local? With Microsoft 365 Local now generally available, Microsoft sends a strong signal: on-premises and sovereign-cloud footprints are not legacy baggage — they remrain strategically relevant. Together…

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Test Latency to Azure Regions 2025

Test Latency to Azure Regions, if users feel your app is “slow,” as nine times out of ten they’re feeling latency, not CPU. In Azure, that latency comes from three…

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Joining the Azure Arc Community – Resources and My Top Picks

The Azure Arc Community brings together everyone interested in the Azure management for any infrastructure—on-premises, multicloud, and at the edge. The core of the community for me is Azure Arc…

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