Pre-MVP summit brunch with the family. Something that has become a tradition over the last few years.

Looking forward to catching up with friends from all over the world and nerding out for a week with peers and Microsoft product teams in Redmond.

#Microsoft #MVPSummit

Hindsight is 20/20: The Azure Deployment Mistakes We All Made Spring is here once again and I’m delighted to be contributing a post as part of the Azure Spring Clean event organised by Joe Carlyle and Thomas Thornton. As always, thanks to the organisers…

🚀 𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝗕𝗹𝗼𝗴 𝗣𝗼𝘀𝘁 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗔𝘇𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝗦𝗽𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗖𝗹𝗲𝗮𝗻 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲!

👉 𝗛𝗶𝗻𝗱𝘀𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝗶𝘀 𝟮𝟬/𝟮𝟬: 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗔𝘇𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝗗𝗲𝗽𝗹𝗼𝘆𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗠𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗸𝗲𝘀 𝗪𝗲 𝗔𝗹𝗹 𝗠𝗮𝗱𝗲

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***New blog post***

I took a first look at the new Azure Virtual Network Routing Appliance, recently released into Public Preview. Read my initial thoughts on this.

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#Azure #Microsoft #Network #Cloud

Secure private access to your internal apps without a VPN Welcome everyone to my contribution to this year’s Festive Tech Calendar. Thanks, as always, to the event organisers who put this event together. It’s always great to see such amazing a…

My latest blog post is now available as part of the annual community event, 'Festive Tech Calendar' which takes place this time each year.

Secure private access to your internal apps without a VPN

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Using Traffic Manager to Failover or Bypass Azure Front Door Microsoft unfortunately suffered not one but two major service outages in October 2025 on their Azure Front Door service. This is a global (non-regional) load balancing service offering CDN and WAF…

***New blog post***

Using Traffic Manager to Failover or Bypass Azure Front Door

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Football, F1 and then the final round of the masters sounds like an ideal Sunday to me. Enjoying the final rays of sunshine first before that disappears again from Ireland for who knows how long.

Tomorrow is your last day to submit your session for #AzureSpringClean an amazing set of submissions already, make sure to submit yours to be part of it! azurespringclean.com #MVPBuzz #CloudFamily

We’re back for another year! #AzureSpringClean returns in March, and the CfS is now open azurespringclean.com

A nice reminder that I need to apply to for a few speaking sessions in 2025.

We're at that stage of the year where everyone in IT is just praying that some new problem doesn't land on their desk until after the holidays.

My blog post for Festive Tech Calendar 2024 is now live! Come and learn all about Azure's Business Continuity Center here.

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#Azure #FestiveTechCalendar

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Hot whiskey for me tonight, well technically bourbon (Woodford Reserve). Been fighting a cold most of the week.

Seconded for Yubikey. No fuss, it just worked.

En route for day 2 of #MsIgnite. Busy schedule of meetings, sessions and labs today. I will hopefully cross paths with a few more MVPs throughout the day. Come over and say hi if you spot me.

All boarded for #MsIgnite here in Dublin. See you in about 8 hours Chicago!

Here we go again....