Posts tagged "Enterprise Reality"

Azure Migrate's 18-Month Data Deletion: The Enterprise Migration Timer Microsoft Calls 'Expected Behavior'

December 16, 2025

Azure Migrate appliances have an 18-month hard limit before mandatory re-registration that deletes all discovery data. Microsoft documents this as 'expected behavior' in the FAQ but provides no alerts, no data preservation, and no migration path. The certificate expires at 12 months with one 6-month extension available, then forces complete appliance reconfiguration with total data loss at month 18.

Azure Migration Azure Migrate Enterprise Reality Governance Compliance Certificate Management

Azure Policy Doesn't Fix Bad Architecture (Microsoft Pretends It Does)

December 15, 2025

Azure Policy enforces rules at scale - but it can't tell you if your subscriptions make sense, if your tags are lies, or why your $2M Azure bill is indefensible. Policy is a guardrail, not a steering wheel.

Azure Azure Policy Governance Architecture FinOps Enterprise Reality

MCP vs Power BI AI: What Actually Creates Your Dashboards? (And What's Just Marketing)

November 30, 2025

A practical comparison of MCP vs Power BI AI: what actually reads data, what actually builds visuals, and how Azure admins should think about both.

AI Azure Copilot Dashboards Enterprise Reality MCP Monitoring Power BI

Buzzwords, Technical Terms, and the Meetings Where Nobody Understands Anything

November 09, 2025

Why corporate arrogance kills more cloud projects than technical complexity ever could. The uncomfortable truth about how leadership uses business buzzwords and technical teams use jargon - and nobody admits they don't understand each other.

azure FinOps governance Enterprise Reality Communication