THIS IS A DRAFT Lastest update to the Zero Trust Assessment - the Network and Data pillars are in progress. If you have not seen the Zero Trust Assessment, check out what it looks like at https:/...

Microsoft has officially extended the retirement of the Azure‑based Sentinel experience to March 31, 2027, giving organisations nearly a year more than originally planned to shift fully into the Mi...

The more conversations I have with customers about AI strategy, the more often the same question comes up: Should we be using Copilot Studio or Azure AI Foundry? As AI agents continue to evol...

Starting 1st April 2026, Azure IaaS virtual machines that rely on unmanaged disks will no longer be able to start. If any of these VMs are still running or allocated at that time, Azure will a...

First Post of 2026!!

THIS POST IS A PLACEHOLDER AND NOT A PROPER POST Microsoft recently rolled out some significant updates to the Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF) — and if you’re hosting workloads in Azure, it’s time ...

THIS POST IS A PLACEHOLDER AND NOT A PROPER POST ⚠️ Heads-up for Azure architects and engineers: Microsoft is retiring default outbound internet access for VMs and Virtual Networks. This post b...

Introduction The cloud landscape is shifting rapidly, and nowhere is this more evident than in the recent changes to VMware licensing under Broadcom. If you’re running workloads on Azure VMware So...

If you’ve stumbled across this post, welcome! Whether you’ve come across my posts before or just landed here by accident (thanks, search engine magic), I’m glad you’re here. Some of you might reme...