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  1. Azure Arc for Hyper-V: Practical Onboarding, VM Integration, and Trade-offs

    Azure Arc gives Hyper‑V administrators a new, cloud‑centric management plane that complements — not replaces — established tools like System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM), Windows Admin Center (WAC), Hyper‑V Manager and PowerShell, and this guide walks through practical onboarding...
  2. Azure Arc and Azure Update Manager: The WSUS Replacement for Hybrid Patch Management

    Azure Arc is becoming the practical replacement many enterprises need after Microsoft signaled the deprecation of Windows Server Update Services (WSUS), and for organizations that want to centralize patching across on-premises servers and Azure VMs the recommended route is to Arc‑enable servers...
  3. Metadata-Driven Zero-Trust MLOps on Azure with Entra ID, Key Vault & Private Link

    Zero-trust is not an add-on for AI pipelines — it must be baked into the fabric of how data, models and orchestration talk to one another. In a recent InfoWorld piece, the author laid out a metadata-driven, zero-trust MLOps reference architecture on Azure that combines Microsoft Entra ID, Azure...
  4. CVE-2025-53763: Azure Databricks Privilege Escalation and Mitigations

    Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC) now lists CVE-2025-53763 as an improper access control vulnerability in Azure Databricks that can be exploited to achieve elevation of privilege over the network, a finding that demands urgent attention from cloud and data platform administrators...
  5. Mastering Azure Application Network Security: Subnets, Endpoints, DNS, and Terraform

    Breaking through the learning curve of securing application networks in Azure is a challenge that virtually every Windows professional or DevOps engineer will encounter. The importance of robust cloud security has only magnified as businesses migrate mission-critical workloads and sensitive data...
  6. Comprehensive Guide to Securing Azure Application Networks with Terraform, Subnets, and Private Link

    When deploying applications to Microsoft Azure, developers and IT administrators often find themselves quickly securing code and dependencies, but may fail to give the same rigorous attention to securing the underlying network. This oversight is dangerous, especially as cloud-based microservices...
  7. Securing Azure Application Networks: Best Practices with Terraform

    When deploying modern applications to Azure, security isn’t just an afterthought—it’s baked into the architecture. In this deep dive, we’ll explore how to secure your application network using Azure’s built-in features, with a specific focus on Terraform code examples. We’ll examine how to...