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You are an IT administrator of a Microsoft Cloud Service Provider (CSP) and you need to be able to manage all CSP tenants' Microsoft 365 subscriptions, either from a single pane of glass or individually. This article will provide high-level guidance about how to manage a Microsoft 365 tenant as CSP.

I am happy to have recently been awarded the CompTIA Certified Trainer (CTT+) certification.  The CTT+ badge is being made available by Credly: https://www.credly.com/users/stefanosevangelou/badges . The CTT+ certification exam tests in and out of class teaching expertise, including preparation, facilitation and physical or virtual classroom evaluation. To earn the certification, two exams mu...

Listen to this podcast episode to find out a recommended troubleshooting method if you cannot connect to any Internet resources via TCP/IP from your local endpoint.

It is a common theme in various Cloud migration projects to migrate a number of on-premise apps to a public or hybrid cloud infrastructure. Depending on the application development framework and the dependencies which the application has to run efficiently (e.g. runtime frameworks, database and file storage requirements, user identity management and so forth), a custom choice is made each time reg...

Security and privacy is a frequent topic of discussion nowadays. With ever increasing IT infrastructures at the service provider and enterprise level as well as with increasing IT knowledge among the average knowledge workers and home users, being aware of security and privacy fundamentals is of paramount importance for ensuring smooth operations of IT systems involved at all levels.

Windows Failover Clustering (WFC) is one of the oldest technologies utilized by Windows Server for the high availability of systems and services, whether that be traditional on-premise IT infrastructures or hybrid and multi cloud infrastructures in Microsoft Azure. Failover clustering and other relevant Microsoft technologies such as Always On Availability Groups are in many cases the cornerstone...

You are facing issues when trying to login to Microsoft 365 apps, such as Outlook 365. Source blog post: https://stefanos.cloud/kb/how-to-fix-office-365-sign-in-or-activation-issues/. 

I am happy to announce the publication of my new Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops Troubleshooting book, which is available for order on Amazon and Smashwords. The Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops Troubleshooting book is now live in the Amazon Kindle store .

It is a best practice for every cloud service provider (and more generally any company offering cloud services to end-users, such as an independent cloud software vendor) to operate a Web application called status page, through which to communicate in real time the status of their services to the end customers and users.

As per Microsoft , starting on October 13, 2020, only these versions of Office will be supported for connecting to Office 365 (and Microsoft 365) services: Apps for enterprise (previously named Office 365 ProPlus) Microsoft 365 Apps for business (previously named Office 365 Business) Office 2019, such as Office Professional Plus 2019 Office 2016, such as Office Standard 2016

There are various technologies available in Windows client and server operating systems for managing user profiles and folder redirection in an Active Directory environment. User profiles and folder redirection are methodologies used for accomplishing User State virtualization, also most recently called User Experience virtualization ( https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/configuration/ue-v/ue...

I am happy to announce the publication of my new e-book entitled "Windows Server Administration Tools and Management Consoles".  The e-book is available for order in the Amazon Kindle store . The book will soon be available for download from the Amazon Kindle store.

When deploying an on-premises virtualization infrastructure (which could also be thought of as a private cloud with the sole customer being the enterprise/organization itself) various services and server roles should be considered in order to achieve a complete virtualization solution.

Microsoft has released a series of kits and tools which are made available for use with Windows 10 for desktop editions (Home, Pro, Enterprise, and Education), Windows 10 Mobile for development and manufacturing and Azure Cloud IoT for IoT applications. A handful of kits and tools are available.

Microsoft Visio is one of the leading software packages for data center diagram design. VisioCafe is an independent non-profit web site for the gathering together of IT industry Visio collections. Each collection is copyrighted to its respective owner, and is not the property of VisioCafe. soft Visio, there are various free pieces of software available for data center diagram design.

Apache Guacamole is a clientless remote desktop gateway . It supports standard protocols like VNC, RDP, and SSH. it is called clientless because no plugins or client software are required. Thanks to HTML5, once Guacamole is installed on a server, all you need to access your desktops is a web browser.

There are various scenarios in which both software and systems engineers need a way to  exchange data between users, systems, scripts and applications using mutually understandable protocols and formats. The most widely accepted data exchange formats are the following: XML YAML CSV JSON