2024

Privileged Identity Management and Access Tiers

July 2, 2024 Andy 6 mins read 1,580❤️ 1

I've been working with a customer recently assisting with sorting out their privileged access and assisting them with their adoption of PIM (Privileged Identity Manager) Whilst I'd argue that PIM...

Cost effective IPSec Site to Site VPN with Azure and UDM

June 9, 2024 Andy 12 mins read 1,207

There are many ways to establish a VPN between my UDM and Azure andI’ve tried them all, but, for the best result I would still recommend using an Azure Virtual...

Creating a local SMTP relay using Postfix and SendGrid

May 31, 2024 Andy 6 mins read 1,555

I had a question recently asking about what would be the best solution as a local SMTP relay after ditching the local Exchange Management Server after going purely cloud identities....

Recovering your self hosted WordPress sites on Ubuntu

May 27, 2024 Andy 6 mins read 298

So, you are backing up your Ubuntu Server but what happens when you have a failure? or you delete something from the server? How do you go about recovering it?...

Creating Multiple Security Groups in Microsoft Entra

May 24, 2024 Andy 4 mins read 1,395

I was recently asked if there was a quick way to create 180 plus Security Groups in Microsoft Entra. I used to do a lot of PowerShell Scripting but not...

Backing up your Ubuntu web server and database

May 23, 2024 Andy 4 mins read 266

Once you have your server up and running you'll probably want to sort out backing it up on a regular basis. If you're running your server in Azure, sure you...

Recommended updates to your self hosted WordPress

May 23, 2024 Andy 1 min read 147

So, now your site is up and running you'll want to get a few things installed on it as a base. for me I like to enable things like Multifactor...

Self hosting WordPress on Ubuntu 22.04.4

May 23, 2024 Andy 5 mins read 160

I've used various hosting services over the years including hosted Wordpress, which has been good, but it can sometimes work out costly and also you do not have full access...