Gregor Reimling – Azure MVP & Microsoft Security Blog

VPN, SSE, GSA, and Other Myths: Our MC2MC Connect Session on Navigating the New Networking Jungle

Wed, 14 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT

The modern enterprise network is changing faster than most organizations can keep up with. Traditional perimeters are dissolving, users are everywhere, applications live in multiple clouds, and security teams are expected to deliver seamless access w

Ignite 2025 Highlights: AI, Agents & Community Connections

Thu, 27 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMT

I´m was back from an impressive Microsoft Ignite 2025 and after two days of working I take some time to reflect was are the important thinks to consider from this Ignite. No wonder, AI was very pressed - from Keynote to Breakout Sessions and Labs it

Speaking at NIC Conf Rebell Edition 2025

Mon, 13 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMT

I´m happy to share that I´ve been invited to speak at the Nordic Infrastructure Conference in Oslo(). The NIC is one os the largest conferences in the Nordics and I´m really happy to be invited to speak at this grea

Get Ready: Cloud Identity Summit 2025 is Calling Dortmund!

Thu, 14 Aug 2025 00:00:00 GMT

The time has come again! The Cloud Identity Summit() is entering its next round. On September 4, 2025, we will meet in Dortmund for the sixth time to exchange ideas about the latest developments in Identity Security

Awarded as Microsoft MVP for Azure and Microsoft Security 2025-2026

Fri, 11 Jul 2025 00:00:00 GMT

What a suprised reached me some days ago, I´m once again been recognized as a Microsoft MVP for Azure and Security in 2025-2026(). Late on last thursday I got the mail

Speaking at Infinity 365 in Salzburg about Entra ID and Conditional Access Security

Tue, 10 Jun 2025 00:00:00 GMT

The Infinity 365 conference was born as a Sharepoint conferencen and growths over the years to a big Microsoft 365 conference in Austria. I´m really happy to be invited to this great Microsoft 365 conference and get the opportunity to held two sessio

Speaking at ExpertsLive Netherlands 2025 about Defender for Cloud Security and GSA

Tue, 27 May 2025 00:00:00 GMT

The Experts Lives Netherlands is just around the corner, two weeks and the event will kick-off in the NBC Congrescentrum in Nieuwegein. The Event is every year growing and this year the conference location will possible reach the maximum capacity aro

Speaking at European AI and Cloud Summit about Securing the Cloud and Hybrid Cloud Server Management

Tue, 22 Apr 2025 00:00:00 GMT

The European AI and Cloud Summit is one of the largest conferences about Microsoft technologies in Europe. The conference taking place in the Trade fair Duesseldorf and brings together three different conferences, the European AI and Cloud Summit, th

Unlocking the Future: Transitioning to the New Azure Fileshares Resource Provider

Mon, 10 Feb 2025 00:00:00 GMT

As of now Fileshares and other storage services like Blog stroage are based on the pre-date ARM model. For this core storage services there was a predinfed boundardy which is the storage account. This means that other resources as blobs exist as chil

Speaking at Cloud Technology Townhall Tallinn about Top 10 Azure Security Best Practices

Thu, 09 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT

I'm thrilled to share that I've been invited to the Cloud Technology Townhall Tallinn Conference (CTTT)() in the heart of Tallinn, Estonia! Founded in 2023, CTTT has quickly become one of the most renowned conferences,

Speaking at Azure APE XXL about Azure Governance Best Practices and Enterprise Scale together with Thomas Naunheim

Wed, 11 Dec 2024 00:00:00 GMT

Yesterday Thomas and I was really honored to be invited to the Azure APE XXL() event in Appeldorn, Netherlands.

MS Ignite 2024 Recap

Mon, 25 Nov 2024 00:00:00 GMT

On my way home from a very inspiring Microsoft Ignite, which I was able to attend in person for the first time. Microsoft Ignite 2024 took place in Chicago at McCormick Place, a very large convention center near Lake Michigan.

Speaking at NICConf 2024 in Oslo about Microsoft Defender for CSPM and Hybrid Cloud with WS2025, Azure Arc and WAC

Wed, 06 Nov 2024 00:00:00 GMT

I´m thrilled to announce that I have been invited to the Nordic Infrastructure Conference in Oslo(), the NICconf, for the second time.

Microsoft enforces MFA requirements for user login to Azure portal for all tenants

Tue, 20 Aug 2024 00:00:00 GMT

Password spray attacks on accounts have increased rapidly in recent months. As a result, the security risks for accounts that do not use MFA for authentication have increased significantly. Microsoft works in the past on different ways to enable MFA

Awarded as Microsoft MVP for Azure and Microsoft Security 2024-2025

Thu, 11 Jul 2024 00:00:00 GMT

I am pleased to announce that I have once again been recognized as a Microsoft MVP for Azure and Security in 2024-2025(). This year there were some internal changes and

Awarded as Defender for Cloud Champion and as Community Advocate 2024

Mon, 15 Apr 2024 00:00:00 GMT

The Microsoft Security Community programm continues to grow and there are many exiting new features and additional previews coming to live. I´m working on some of the new previews to gain insights and provide feedback and there are really great new o

Guest on Geeksprech Podcast about FinOps and/or Azure Cost Management (Governance)

Tue, 26 Mar 2024 00:00:00 GMT

In 2023 I was at some conferences where I held a session about Azure Cost Management and I´ve discussed this topic also a couple of times with my best buddy Eric Berg.

Speaking at Windows Server Engineering Summit 2024

Wed, 20 Mar 2024 00:00:00 GMT

With the announcement of the next Windows Server release, called Windows Server 2025(), Microsoft decided to org

The new Azure Update Manager is GA - Part 2 - How it works and the valuable new features

Mon, 05 Feb 2024 00:00:00 GMT

In the first part of this article (Three-big-reasons-to-migrate-to-update-manager-and-forget-the-classic-update-management-center(

Enable granular pricing for Defender for Servers P1 or P2 on specific resources within your subscription via API/Powershell

Thu, 25 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMT

Microsoft model for a scalable Cloud Adtoption is based on the Enterprise Scale Architecture and I think this is a scalable and useful modell for every customer that uses Azure ressources. It´s based on the definition to granulary devide the workload

How to deactivate Hyper-threading on Azure VMs in an easy way without Microsoft support

Wed, 03 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMT

In my current project we have the requirement to deactivate Hyper-threading on some Azure VMs. There are some Azure VMs available without Hyper-threading which can be found on the Azure compute unit(

The new Azure Update Manager is GA Part 1 - three big reasons to migrate to Update Center and forget the classic Update Management Center

Tue, 10 Oct 2023 00:00:00 GMT

Microsoft released a completely new designed Update solution for Azure which supports VMs running in Hybrid- and Cloud-only environments with the name Azure Update Manager (formerly known as Update Management Center). This new solution is completely

Cloud Identity Summit 2023 Recap

Thu, 14 Sep 2023 00:00:00 GMT

Our 4th edition of the Cloud Identity Summit 2023 is over and it was a blast to meet all this great speaker and the Identity Community this year virtual and in-person in Koblenz.

Microsoft Defender for CSPM is GA - Information about activation, billing and new pricing information

Mon, 24 Jul 2023 00:00:00 GMT

Microsoft announced with Defender for Cloud Security Posture Management a new plan in the Defender for Cloud product family which focuses on a central view on the security posture of the customer.

Microsoft MVP for Azure for 2023-2024 (5th year in a row) and 1st time MVP for Security

Fri, 07 Jul 2023 00:00:00 GMT

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Speaking at Experts Live Netherlands 2023 about Mastering Defender for Servers

Sun, 28 May 2023 00:00:00 GMT

I´m really happy to announce that I will speak at the Experts Live Netherlands() 2023 Spring edition. The last one was the 10th annivesary edition in Fall last year. The Experts Live Netherlands is one of the biggest Experts

Azure Firewall Basic SKU is now GA

Thu, 16 Mar 2023 00:00:00 GMT

Microsoft announces with the Azure Firewall Standard and Premium two native Firewall Services available as PaaS solution what are a great benefit to classic Firewall deployments, because of native Autoscaling Features, no need for VM Management and m

Awarded with the Defender for Cloud Black Belt for 2022

Mon, 09 Jan 2023 00:00:00 GMT

Between the days I got the notification from Microsoft that I was awarded the Microsoft Defender for Cloud Black Belt.

How I successfully passed the MS Defender for Cloud Ninja training and how the security community helped me

Mon, 07 Nov 2022 00:00:00 GMT

One of my goal this year was to work more and more with the Microsoft security solutions and got deeper into the different services and possibilities. My focus on this is to get a better understanding how we can secure our Hybrid Cloud environment wi

Speaking at Cloud Brew 2022 about Azure Arc

Fri, 04 Nov 2022 00:00:00 GMT

After many hybrid events in the last few years I really like to get back to in-person or hybrid events to see the community live at the events and discuss and learn from each other about different projects and meet some new people.

My favorite Microsoft Ignite 2022 Fall Highlights

Thu, 13 Oct 2022 00:00:00 GMT

After the pandemic beguns Microsoft switched the both big conference Microsoft Build and Microsoft Ignite to virtual only events. The Ignite was two times a year in 2020 and 2021. For 2022 it was long time not clear will it go back to an in-person ev

Azure Firewall Basic is available as Public preview

Thu, 06 Oct 2022 00:00:00 GMT

Microsoft announces with the Azure Firewall Standard and Premium two new Firewall Services available as PaaS solution what are a great benefit to classic Firewall deployments, because of native Autoscaling Features, no need for VM Management and more

Microsoft will disable Legacy Authentication 1st of October 2022 - What this means and what you have to do

Sat, 01 Oct 2022 00:00:00 GMT

Many of my customers move to the cloud in the last recent years. This means for existing environments a start of a journey away from on-prem system going forward to cloud environments. We all know a journey starts with preperation and needs different

Speaking at Experts Live Netherlands 2022

Wed, 28 Sep 2022 00:00:00 GMT

The full event month of September is slowly coming to an end and what better way to end it than with a great Azure conference? I´m really happy to announce that I will speak at the Experts Live Netherlands(). The Experts Live

Cloud Identity Summit 2022 Recap

Fri, 23 Sep 2022 00:00:00 GMT

After 8 Months of planning the Cloud Identity Summit 2022() is over and I can say it was really a pleasure to help to organize this great Community event from my perspective. Four years ago Thomas Naunheim come up w

Microsoft announced Azure Premium SSD v2 Disk Storage in preview - for me a big announcement this year

Fri, 22 Jul 2022 00:00:00 GMT

In the past, it was quite quiet about new features and announcements in the Azure IaaS space. Yes, sometimes there were new VM sizes with more cores or more RAM, but in general there were no surprising announcements last year. From my point of view,

How I passed the Microsoft Cybersecurity Architect exam SC-100 and why I am now a Microsoft Cybersecurity Architect Expert

Tue, 12 Jul 2022 00:00:00 GMT

Three months ago on 7th of April Microsoft announce a new exam for security architects and introduce again the existing exams SC-200(), SC-300(

Microsoft MVP for Azure 2022-2023

Thu, 07 Jul 2022 00:00:00 GMT

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MY UPCOMING COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENTS IN 2022

Fri, 20 May 2022 00:00:00 GMT

It's been pretty quiet here on the blog the last few months and I'm sorry for that. I am in some big customer projects and am in full planning of some community events, like Global Azure at Azure Bonn and the Cloud Identity Summit, this was the reaso

Azure AMA - Azure Virtual Desktop Best Practices #AVD with Marcel Meurer and Patrick Koehler - English Edition

Mon, 07 Mar 2022 00:00:00 GMT

I'm excited to announce that we're kicking off another Azure AMA on Azure Virtual Desktop Best Practices() session - English Edition. The last session was delivered in German and we get a lots of Feedback to repat this i

Azure AMA - Azure Virtual Desktop Best Practices #AVD with Marcel Meurer and Patrick Koehler

Mon, 07 Feb 2022 00:00:00 GMT

German below

Zu Gast beim Decompose.io Podcast mit Azure Policy

Fri, 04 Feb 2022 00:00:00 GMT

English Below

Migrate Ubiquiti Unifi Security Gateway (USG) to Unifi Dream Machine Pro (UDM Pro)

Wed, 19 Jan 2022 00:00:00 GMT

Some of my customers using Ubiquiti components in there networks, because of the great price and performance ratio and the easy administration. On of my customers the Unifi Security Gateway had a defect shortly before christmas. We decided to renew t

Reinstall Azure Backup Windows Workload to fix UserErrorSQL NoSysadminMembership for SQL Server in Azure VM

Wed, 12 Jan 2022 00:00:00 GMT

In the last couple of days I try to optimize some Azure environments from security and cost perspective. One customer has a SQL Server Express installed inside an Azure VM. The backup was configured for the hole VM, but there is no need to backup the

Recap of 2021 and Looking forward to 2022

Sat, 01 Jan 2022 00:00:00 GMT

2021 is over and it was a challenging and interesting year from many perspectives. I think the most important thing in these times is health and consideration for the community. Looking back to 2021, I was a speaker at many virtual events and that wa

Starting my new journey at adesso SE

Mon, 01 Nov 2021 00:00:00 GMT

Welcome adesso SE

Microsoft release Azure AD Connect V2 with tons of new features and remove support for WS 2012 R2 or Older

Fri, 13 Aug 2021 00:00:00 GMT

Update 18/08/2021

MY UPCOMING COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENTS IN 2ND HALF OF 2021

Mon, 09 Aug 2021 00:00:00 GMT

Summer is here and I hope many enjoy the time on vacation. In this article I would like to give a little preview on which community events you can find me in the 2nd half of 2021.

RECAP OF 1ST HALF OF 2021

Wed, 21 Jul 2021 00:00:00 GMT

The first half of 2021 is over and I has the pleasure to speak and so many great events.

Azure Bastion supports SCALABILITY for SSH/RDP Connections with the new Standard SKU

Wed, 14 Jul 2021 00:00:00 GMT

Update 1 on 01/12/2021 :