Should my Microsoft Cloud Administrator account be licensed? If so, when?
Lesedauer 5 MinutenOver the years, several best practices for managing administrator accounts have become established, particularly in connection with the Microsoft Cloud: “Security-related licenses” typically refer to licenses for Entra ID features, such as conditional access, Privileged Identity Management, etc. However, if your own productive user account already has such a license, the administrator account does not […]
Windows Server Summit 2026 | Part 7: Everything you want to know about Azure Arc for Servers
Lesedauer 4 MinutenPart 6 of this series has shown that Windows Server is no longer limited to traditional deployment as part of an Active Directory environment. The possibilities are vast—whether it’s used as a workgroup server, in Azure, or in another cloud. Instead of using various management solutions and portals, it makes sense to manage everything through […]
Windows Server Summit 2026 | Part 6: Evolving server management: priorities, roadmap, and tooling
Lesedauer 2 MinutenCompanies no longer rely solely on their own data centers to provision IT systems. In addition to Microsoft 365, organizations are also adopting multi-cloud strategies to optimally leverage the strengths of each respective cloud environment. However, this necessitates different approaches to server management and introduces entirely new challenges compared to traditional methods. To address this, […]
Microsoft 365 Migrations | Part 2: Management of the environments
Lesedauer 6 MinutenOptimizing and operating a Microsoft cloud environment is not something that can be done on the side. There’s no denying it: the cloud offers many opportunities for automation and natively provides the necessary security services. However, these do not configure themselves. The enterprise IT department still plays a crucial role in professionally implementing security and […]
Windows Server Summit | Azure Arc - the "Intune for Servers"
Lesedauer 3 MinutenWSUS has been discontinued and Intune does not work for servers. How can I manage my servers now? Endlich hat Microsoft eine Antwort darauf: Azure Arc! Den Dienst gibt es schon seit einiger Zeit, aber mittlerweile mausert er sich zum "Intune for Servers". Dies wird klar, wenn man sich vor allem die Funktionen anschaut, die […]
