Month: February 2020

  • Azure Extended network (“L2” – ish connections)

    In November 2019 at the Microsoft Ignite conference there was a demo on how to extend your on-premises network to Azure. While embedded in a regular Azure session, one might think this allows you to do a L2 extension of your network into an Azure network, its actually not. Yes, you can have overlapping subnets…

  • Delegated Windows Virtual Desktop Deployment

    When deploying Windows Virtual Desktop in Azure you can use all the administrative credentials you can find as per the guide. But what if you are in a more “regular” environment where you don’t have “Domain Admin” and “Global Admin” permissions? In that case, you follow this post where we will look at who needs…

  • FIDO2 – the infinite loop broken

    In my previous post I talked about FIDO2 keys from FEITIAN and how to register them. One of the points for registration was that you need to sign-in with MFA to register your FIDO2 key. But what if your users do not want that, or cannot do that? To the rescue comes ENSURITY. They have…

  • Even strong passwords are… stupid – part 2 – FIDO2

    Microsoft is on a quest to remove passwords. While this will be a long journey it is worth the effort. Passwords are weak as people tend to reuse their passwords on various sites and/or websites don’t do enough to protect them. And so, accounts are breached almost on weekly basis, and many passwords are “known”…