Sven Bergendahl
Senior Cloud Consultant
Senior Cloud Consultant with a broad background across Azure, Microsoft 365, networking, on-prem infrastructure and DevOps. I like simple, practical solutions, thoughtful architectures, and sharing what I learn along the way.
Latest Posts
16 posts, grouped by year.
2025
2Manually Assign Drivers on Windows Server Core: The Device Manager Trick
Introduction During my work with Azure Local (formerly Azure Stack HCI), I ran into a frustrating but common situation. I had the correct network driver files for an Intel I225-LM controller sitting right there on my system, but Windows Server Core j...
Deploy your Astro.js Project on Mittwald Hosting
As you may have noticed, I recently switched my personal website from Hashnode to the Astro.js framework. Don't get me wrong - Hashnode is great, but Astro.js has captured my heart in a special way. I've built several sites with Astro now, and as som...
2024
12023
11Resolve Intel NUC 12th Gen network adapter issue during Nutanix CE installation
Introduction During my weekend, I attempted to install the latest Nutanix Community Edition on my newly acquired Intel NUC 12th Generation (NUC12WSKi5). Upon booting, I encountered an error where the Nutanix CE Installer failed to recognize my built-...
Easy Mode: What is Zero Trust?
Hey there! Welcome to the first blog of my "Easy Mode" series, where I break down complex topics into bite-sized, easy-to-understand posts. Today, we're going to dive into a cybersecurity concept called Zero Trust. Imagine a world where you question ...
Build your Microsoft demo and test tenant with the CDX Portal
Introduction Sometimes you need a fully-fledged Microsoft 365 (or other) test, demo, user experience environment/tenant to test something yourself or present some features to a customer he is interested in. You can certainly use your own or your comp...
A quick look at the three most common SSL techniques for load balancers
Introduction Securing data that’s transmitted over the internet is essential to protect sensitive information from being compromised by attackers. One of the most common ways to secure web traffic is through SSL, which encrypts data as it travels bet...
Secure your Azure AD User Accounts with Azure Identity Protection
What is Azure Identity Protection? Microsoft Azure Identity Protection is a part of Microsofts Security Services and can be found in the Azure Portal and also nowadays in the Microsoft Entra Admin Center. With Azure Identity Protection, Administrator...
Prescaling Azure Application Gateway Instances with Azure Automation for Peak Traffic
Introduction Although the Azure Application Gateway offers the possibility to autoscale its instances and, therefore its capability to handle increasing traffic, it can sometimes be quite practical to ramp up the number of instances for known situati...
Troubleshooting Azure Application Gateway: A Collection of Useful KQL Queries
Introduction Updated: 16/03/2023 The Azure Application Gateway is a highly scalable and managed web traffic load balancer that provides application-level routing, load balancing, and web application firewall services. However, despite its simplicity ...
Getting Started with your first Azure Load Test
Introduction As described in my previous blog, “An introduction to the Microsoft Azure Load Testing Service” load testing is an important step in ensuring that your web application or website can handle the expected load before going into production....
Azure Application Gateway: Implementing an Implicit Deny Rule in WAF Policies
Introduction For an actual home lab project, I needed a well-known firewall resource, the Implicit Deny Rule, which is typically given in any firewall nowadays. Implementing this rule in an Azure Application Gateway can be tricky as I haven’t found m...
Microsoft Entra: Understanding the Product Family
Introduction Seen it many times but have yet to deal with it, Microsoft Entra. The product family offers a comprehensive set of products for managing identities and their access in different cloud environments and more. In this blog post, I try to ex...
An introduction to the Microsoft Azure Load Testing Service
Introduction In this upcoming series, I will try to explain the Azure Load Testing Service. Why load testing is important, how to create your first load test in JMeter, and analyze the performance statistics after the first completed and successful l...
2021
2Fixing 'No Data' Issue in Datadog when monitoring Azure Resources
Recently I set up Datadog and the Integration for Azure via a Service Principle for a Test-Subscription. After creating the needed Monitors, which are also similar to Production, I deactivated the Test-Subscription and integrated the Production Subsc...
Upgrading Your Rubrik CDM Cluster via CLI: A Step-by-Step Guide
Introduction Welcome to my first post! Today, I want to share with you a quick rundown on how to upgrade a Rubrik CDM cluster via CLI. Whether you’re a seasoned IT professional or a newbie, this guide will walk you through the process step-by-step, s...