I am happy to be selected as a speaker for one of the biggest online conferences: Collab365. An event you can’t miss out on! This is one of the coolest conferences around, from the people organising it to the folks participating online. A single session can easily reach thousands of people, so you can imagine my excitement. Here are my session details:

Cloud Enabled Architecture: What to Consider & Keep in Mind !
Today, “Cloud” is part of our everyday life. I will share our experience of Cloud Enabled Architecture and discuss what to consider and keep in mind when you build Cloud Enabled Architecture! We will bring a lot of stories from the trenches, so you will see and hear the real information, not just information from official documentation!

You Will Learn:

• What is Cloud Enabled Architecture
• What to keep in mind
• What to consider
• Common mistakes and what we can learn from others

Click here to view the agenda. Hope to see you in the chat room for my session.

On August 23, Windows update KB3176934 released for Windows Client. Due to a missing .MOF file in the build package, the update breaks DSC. All DSC operations will result in an “Invalid Property” error.

In addition, due to a missing binary in the build package, the update breaks PowerShell Implicit Remoting. Implicit remoting is a PowerShell feature where PowerShell commands work on a remote session instead of locally. Specifically, importing a remote session no longer works:

Import-PSSession : Could not load type ‘System.Management.Automation.SecuritySupport’ from assembly
‘System.Management.Automation, Version=3.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35’.

To prevent these issues take the following actions:

VNet Peering for Azure Virtual Network lets us directly link two virtual networks in the same region. Virtual machine resources in both virtual networks can connect directly through private IP addresses as if they were part of the same network.

VNet Peering routes packets between virtual networks through the internal Azure backbone network, so there’s no gateway in the path. This allows for a low-latency, high-bandwidth connection between virtual machines in the virtual networks.

VNet Peering also allows transit through the peered virtual networks, so a Network Virtual Appliance or a VPN gateway in one virtual network can be used by a virtual machine in another peered virtual network. Peering works across virtual networks in different subscriptions and between an Azure Resource Manager and an Azure Service Management virtual network.

Presenting “Cloud-Enabled Architecture”, at HPE Discover Recap Roadshow 2016 in 5 cities across Canada! Looking forward meeting with all of you!

Time to time, during our Microsoft Cloud projects, we get pretty much the same question: “Do Azure VPN or ExpressRoute provide traffic encryption?” So, here is an explanation :)…