Network Audit and Documentation, CENTREL Solutions Blog

We've recently been working on latest Azure agent for our network documentation tool XIA Configuration Server . We have multiple Azure environments including production, development and test one of which is a small Microsoft Partner Network tenant which includes Microsoft Action Pack credits for Azure. As part of the testing we created multiple resource types in the tenant including a Key Vault Managed HSM .  The resource was expensive so was deleted when testing was complete. Unfortunately there seems to be a critical bug in Azure (perhaps related to the HSM module only), whereby we're seeing hundreds of £ of charges accumulating a few hours. The issue was reported to Microsoft who acknowledge there may be an issue but refused to resolve the issue or even look into it until a credit card is assigned to the subscription and the spending limit removed. We refused to assign a corporate card to the subscription on the grounds that exposes to to unlimited financial risk from this b...

Internet Explorer is now dated and a security risk - being replaced by Microsoft Edge. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/lifecycle/faq/internet-explorer-microsoft-edge However, Internet Explorer is the only browser built into Windows Server 2012 R2, Windows Server 2016, and Windows Server 2019 so you may still wish to test your product against the browser even just to ensure that your product degrades gracefully or denies access if the user is using Internet Explorer. However, when you try to open Internet Explorer on Windows 10, Windows 11, and Windows Server 2022 you find that the operating system closes Internet Explorer and opens Microsoft Edge instead. To prevent this from happening and allow Internet Explorer to open Start Microsoft Edge Go to settings Select Default Browser Change the Let Internet Explorer open sites in Microsoft Edge setting.