Tech Tips, Tricks & Trivia

This Week I Learned - *  Azure Pack will continue to evolve until 2022 (6 years from now) and will be supported until 2027 (11 years from now). * Azure in Germany is an isolated instance of Azure. It isn’t connected to other Azure regions.  Azure Portal URL is different . *  AWS market share = 3X Azure * The recent WannaCrypt malware exploits a Service Message Block (SMB) vulnerability (CVE-2017-0145). Utilize Windows Update to keep your machines up-to-date with the latest security updates. If you are running Azure Cloud Services (Platform as a Service Web Roles and Worker Roles or Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)) automatic updates (including MS17-010 update to resolve this vulnerability) are enabled by default, so there is no further action required. Confirm that anti-malware is deployed and updated. If you are using Microsoft anti-malware for Azure or Windows Defender, Microsoft released an update last week which detects this threat as Ransom:Win32/WannaCrypt...

This Week I Learned - *  Azure Partner Quickstarts  are Azure Resource Manager templates created by trusted Microsoft partners and designed to help you get started with integrated, multi-artifact solutions rather than single applications or services on Azure. *  Microsoft IT migrated more than 120 TB of data to Azure and reduced server footprint from 175 to 110 physical servers—with no downtime for all 54 onboarded applications * Beginning March 1, 2017, Microsoft is changing how new Azure ExpressRoute circuits are deployed in Azure; you’ll need to use Azure Resource Manager to deploy and manage your ExpressRoute circuits. * The free ebook, .NET Microservices: Architecture for Containerized .NET Applications , is an introduction to developing microservices-based applications and managing them using containers using .NET Core and Docker containers. * Any firm that has or uses European personal data anywhere in theh world, comes under the purview of the European U...

While an image shared over Whatsapp or one taken with your camera app can be expanded, viewing an enlarged view of an image within an app may not be possible. I recently faced a situation where I needed a magnified view of an image within the Ola (cab aggregator) app & discovered that all the popular mobile operating systems (iOS, Android & Windows Phone) offer a way to magnify through the Accessibility option under Settings . After enabling this feature, triple tapping on an image provides an enlarged view. Ola Cabs verifies the background of the cab drivers but I wonder if they have any checks to ensure the driver who actually turns up to take you around is in fact the same driver whose tiny photo appears in the app or in the bill they send at the end of the trip. On my 5.5 inch screen phone, I could therefore not make out if the person driving the cab matched the picture provided in the app. The cab driver assigned by Ola had a 4.6 rating but the impersonator had troub...