Short reads from inside real Microsoft cloud environments.
Technical field notes on the architecture, governance, cost, and identity problems Falstech focuses on.
How to stage a Conditional Access rollout without locking out the team
A staged rollout framework for report-only evidence, workload identities, emergency access, pilot criteria, and rollback.
Five common Azure cost leaks in mid-market environments
Idle resources, oversized SKUs, forgotten dev environments — and the policy patterns that plug them.
Microsoft 365 + Entra: a practical day-one governance baseline
Conditional access, named locations, emergency access, and review questions for a context-dependent baseline.
When your MSP isn't enough: signs you need a fractional cloud engineer
Three signs that ticket-based support may not resolve the underlying architecture problem.
What must be decided before a cloud modernization project can move
A modernization project needs explicit decisions about business constraints, dependencies, target architecture, migration sequence, rollback, ownership, and acceptance criteria before execution can proceed with controlled risk.
When to centralize Azure Log Analytics—and when not to
A practical point of view on Azure Log Analytics workspace design. The article explains why one workspace is a useful starting point, then shows when tenancy, access, region, data residency, retention, ownership, billing, cost, or resilience requirements justify separation.
Azure Policy: moving from audit findings to safe enforcement
A staged decision path from inventory and exemptions through remediation, testing, and controlled enforcement — and why an incomplete evidence base is a reason to stay in audit.