​We have all gone through this cycle of vulnerability detected and patches applied in our careers. Some of us still go through this vicious cycle of tense, challenging and nerve wrecking moments when you are racing against time and people in business are asking for updates while the customer support is assuring the customers with eyes on the screen waiting for the announcement "Patch Applied", "Service Restored" etc

Software Patch and Vulnerability Management continue to be a major challenge for many organizations. There is no single software product or vendor source of these vulnerabilities.  Organizations must consider patching at all levels of software and only applying Microsoft Patch through Tuesday updates to protect systems and data from cyber-attack is not sufficient.

This solution is based on the letsencrypt-webapp-renewer. It uses the same core library than the Azure Lets Encrypt site extension, but it is run as a WebJob. It can (should) be installed on its own web app, and supports multiple target websites.

The author of the letsencrypt-webapp-renewer has made thorough instructions, so I won't copy them here. When granting the service principal rights, you may want to only add Website Contributor and Web Plan Contributor instead of Contributor rights. The only thing needed in addition to those instructions is the support by the web app itself.

As you may already know, the Office 365 Video service is being replaced by Microsoft Stream.  If you have been using Office 365 Video to publish videos, you can now start migrating it to Microsoft Stream using the self-service migration tool. If you don’t see it, you can request to register your tenant using the form available here https://aka.ms/O365VideoEarlyMigration

When you logon to your Office 365 Video portal you will see the migration banner to start the migration process

This will open a new window (https://web.microsoftstream.com/officemigration)

Sadly choosing a CMS platform is a dilemma and even the very best in the industry end up arguing with each other on the pros and cons. This post is for those who are going through this phase and are finding it difficult to make up their mind on which platform would be best suitable for them.

Instead of getting in to historical facts and figures, lets just put this in simple words.

​A content management system (CMS) is an interface that allows users to create and manage the content of their websites. Whereas CMS’s started out as simple software to publish content online, they have grown to become core technology platforms that support cross-organisational goals and objectives, from marketing to sales.

The CMS you choose is closely linked to your business goals and the success of your organisation. Your website is your digital estate: the online representation of your brand, your benchmark against competitors and a key driver of sales.  Additionally, your website will be the destination for your marketing efforts, and a core hub of your operations.

When it comes to CMS platforms, paying more doesn’t necessarily mean better. To pick a CMS that you can rely on and is right for your business needs, a considered evaluation of features and functionality requirements is crucial.

​I don't claim that i am an expert on this subject and still there is a long curve of learning involved as my career grows in to new roles. What i am sharing here are some of my observations, notes references etc related to agile leadership and how well an organization should adopt them for survival.  Let’s examine some favorite ideas and concepts around agile leadership. 

In my experience, there are at least five criteria for successful agile transformations. Lasting organizational change happens:

1. When there are leadership and guidance, not command & control.
2. When there is alignment across the organization instead of the pursuit of local optimization efforts or personal agendas.
3. When the collaboration of all participants beyond hierarchies is the norm, not an exception.
4. When we acknowledge that management principles of the 19th century are unsuited to solve complex problems of the 21st century.
5. When managers become servant leaders.

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The following  focus on the main concepts related to agile leadership: from servant leadership to the agile mindset to creating a learning organization. The lists are not supposed to be comprehensive but provide the interested reader with a starting point for further research.

This is one of the most controversial topics of SharePoint Online and everyone seems to have a theory. For some it works like a charm and they never get to experience the pain while others even open up tickets with Microsoft Premium Support and still the issue remain unresolved.

Yes i am referring to the great file attachment and upload sizes. When you go online to look for the right answer, all you get is confusion with out dated information. For example old articles, new ones, One Drive for Business sync tools, classic vs modern and you will get unsure exactly what sizes to recommend to a client. So, I decided to do some testing with various large dummy file sizes around what I was reading the limitations to be. The results were close to Microsoft’s article, but with a very interesting caveat .

There are a few factors when you want to know max file sizes:

• Classic interface
• Modern interface
• List Attachments
• Document Libraries
• Drag and Drop
• Upload Multiple

Lets admit that migration of any sort is a pain and migrating something to the cloud for the first time is always challenging. I have been going through this for quite some time and finally had the chance to play with Azure Migrate and it has been a good experience overall.

​If you plan to go to Azure you will have 2 choices for your current environment:

• Recreate you infrastructure from scratch
• Use Azure Site Recovery to “move” your on-premise VMs to Azure

The goal of this post is to explain you what is Server Migration and how it can help you for your migration to Azure.

​The Azure Migrate service assesses on-premises workloads for migration to Azure. The service assesses the migration suitability of on-premises machines, performs performance-based sizing, and provides cost estimations for running on-premises machines in Azure. If you’re contemplating lift-and-shift migrations, or are in the early assessment stages of migration, this service is for you. After the assessment, you can use services such as Azure Site Recovery and Azure Database Migration Service, to migrate the machines to Azure.

Azure Migrate helps you to:

• Assess Azure Readiness: Assess whether your on-premises machines are suitable for running in Azure.
• Get Size Recommendations: Get size recommendations for Azure VMs based on the performance history of on-premises VMs.
• Estimate Monthly Costs: Get estimated costs for running on-premises machines in Azure.
• Migrate with High Confidence: Visualize dependencies of on-premises machines to create groups of machines that you will assess and migrate together.

​I recently created a Microsoft Office 365 development environment via https://aka.ms/offdp

I was creating an environment to do some SharePoint Modern theming (I created a new Communication Site via the modern Admin interface on my new tenant), but noticed the classic (rather the older) Change the Look interface: