I'm fairly new to IT and networking, so please bear with me if I am unable to explain this issue correctly. I'm the IT Manager in a department of one for a startup with about 30 employees. We're ...

Microsoft has revealed that Thursday's worldwide outage was caused by a code defect that allowed the Azure DNS service to become overwhelmed and not respond to DNS queries. At approximately 5:21 PM ...

It seems there really isn't one single, universally accepted best practise on this one. So let's assume a fairly typical SME with a primary site (both physically and in AD site terms) with a couple of ...

As Brien recently discovered, a glitch in Azure can cause a virtual machine to fail when it's manually configured to use a specific DNS server. Here's how the problem went down and how he fixed it.