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We use Cisco WSA as our internal proxy. And we have a new service for Call Center where they need to access VOIP through the browser. I thought this would not be an issue as Teams and other online meeting software works fine. But Im having issues with hearing calls. Documentation shows that this service needs UDP ports open for STUN and RTP/RTCP protocols. And that modern proxies dont support UDP as a stateless connection submitted by /u/jonbristow [link] [comments]

Hi everyone, I'm a bit confused about Google Cloud Billing and was hoping someone could clarify this for me. I'm a student and I accidentally enabled Google Cloud Billing while trying out Google AI Studio to generate a Gemini API key. I don't actually use Google Cloud services, and I don't have any running resources or active projects. When I checked my billing dashboard, it shows: ₹0.00 balance due No transactions No usage/costs But I'm also seeing a message saying that I need to make a one-time payment of at least ₹1000 to activate the service . I also received an email saying my payment information couldn't be processed. Since I don't plan to use Google Cloud at all, I'm confused about what this means. My questions are: Is this ₹1000 an activation/prepaid amount, or is it an actual bill? If I don't have any usage or charges, can I just ignore this message? Will I be charged anything in the future if I simply leave the account as it is and never use Google Cloud? I'd really appreciate it if someone who has faced this before or knows how this works could help me understand. Thanks in advance! submitted by /u/Far-Hovercraft5425 [link] [comments]

TL;DR: Azure ML job bypassed its 21-day hard limit and ran for 70 days. A sub-wide Defender for Storage enablement triggered massive scanning costs on the stuck job's continuously appending logs (over than a thousand € for Defender + few hundreds € for the VM). Opened an Enterprise support ticket well within the retention window, but internal MS routing delays caused backend logs to expire. Support now uses the lack of logs to deny any refund, ignoring immutable billing evidence and their own platform limit failure. I'm dealing with a billing dispute regarding an Azure Machine Learning job and the linked VM + Defender for Cloud costs, and I'm looking for other perspectives and possibly, even some advice with the case and/or dealing with MS Support. Context: Company: Enterprise environment with Enterprise Agreement and dedicated support. Project: Resource Group dedicated to an MVP started in 2025, average monthly spend is a few hundreds € . ML workload: typical job duration is below 30 mins, in rare cases it reached 8-12 hours (max). Anomaly timeline: Day 1: an Azure ML job starts and seemingly get stuck in a loop. All logs related to this job disappeared from the Storage Account, except for a computeRecord.txt (full path: https://<storageAccountName>.blob.core.windows.net/azureml/ComputeRecord/dcid.<jobName>/ ) containing two useful info: VMSize (checks out with billing data) and CoreSeconds, confirming the 70 days job duration. Day 53: colleagues enable Defender for Storage sub-wide with the default 10TB / month cap per Storage Account (a bit too high for a default per Resource cap..?) . It continuously scans the AML log files generated by the stuck job, already bloated after almost 2 months of logs, with 3 generating most of the volume (URL with path: https://<storageAccountName>.blob.core.windows.net/azureml/ExperimentRun/dcid.<jobName>/system_logs/... ; files: hosttools-capability.log , lifecycler.log , and metrics-capability.log - biggest one reached 140+ MB, 3 writes per minute -> 3 complete scans per minute). Disclaimer: i acknowledge this is partly on us, as the defaults were accepted and and no paths were excluded. Day 62: 10 TB monthly cap is reached, the Event Grid System Topic created by Defender and linked to the Storage Account shows that the events keep firing, but now they’re being ignored. Day 69: I find out about the issue and having to act quickly to prevent new costs starting the next month (it was a friday afternoon and the next month started with the next monday), I lower the monthly cap to 10 GB and enable Storage Account-level logging/diagnostic logs. Immediately after, the Event Grid System Topic shows the events stop firing: the job abruptly stopped (reason still unknown), which is confirmed by the VM billing. Day 75: I open a severity B Support Request under our Enterprise support plan and granting permission for "Advanced diagnostic information" . Incurred costs (using ranges to "anonymize", just in case): VM Compute: 200-500 € Defender for Storage: 1.000€ - 1.500€ The support issue: Official Azure ML docs state a 21-day hard limit for job execution ( link ): the platform failed to trigger its own timeout. I initially opened the SR with the Storage team, but due to delayed responses and poor investigation, the specialized AML team was engaged over a month later - even though the AML involvement was clear after at most 2 weeks. By that time, the 30-day internal backend diagnostic logs had expired (see point below). Support is now stonewalling: they refuse to evaluate a refund, claiming that without backend logs, they cannot confirm a platform anomaly, completely ignoring the immutable billing, the computeRecord.txt evidence and the platform's failure to enforce its own 21-day limit. Questions: What’s your take on this? Is it reasonable from your POV and experience to push for a full refund (VM + Defender costs), since the massive logs were a direct byproduct of the AML anomaly, or should I solely focus on the VM compute costs (at least the excess over the 21-day limit)? I’d expect at the very least the latter, understanding that the Defender operated correctly and based on "poor" configuration on our side. How do you successfully escalate past a support tier that behaves like this? Do you have “success stories” or advice regarding similar cases? Thanks in advance to anyone who finds the willpower to read through this wall of text! 🙂 (I might add an edit or a comment later with a dedicated rant about the abysmal support experience itself - useless pings just to keep the ticket within SLA, completely ignored feedback, repeatedly asking for data I had already provided, and conflicting directions from different teams 🥲 ). submitted by /u/Randomusernameeeeee [link] [comments]

I'm trying to better understand the relationship between Azure Machine Learning Storage Accounts, Datastores, and Data Assets, and I'm a bit confused about when each should be used. From my understanding: A Storage Account is where the actual data resides. A Datastore acts as a registered connection to the storage. Data Assets reference data stored in a datastore or another supported location. However, I'm still unclear about a few things: What is the practical difference between URI File , URI Folder , and MLTable ? For different data formats, which asset type is recommended? CSV Excel (.xlsx) JSON Parquet Images Text files Is MLTable intended only for tabular datasets, or can it also be used with image datasets and other file types? When would you register a Data Asset instead of simply accessing files directly from a Datastore? Are there any performance, versioning, or reproducibility benefits to using Data Assets over directly referencing storage? What is the recommended data organization strategy for production Azure ML projects? I'd appreciate it if anyone could share real-world examples or best practices for organizing data in Azure ML. Thanks! submitted by /u/Chemical-Wall9026 [link] [comments]

I'm part of our internal IT team and it feels like we answer the same questions every single day. Password resets, VPN setup, printer connections you name it. We already have documentation but most people don't seem to read it before opening a support ticket. I'd love to reduce these repetitive requests without making documentation more complicated. Has anyone found something that actually works? submitted by /u/ConnectHoney42 [link] [comments]

We’re having a problem with svchost wsappx at our company that I haven’t been able to resolve. It’s constantly using around 10% CPU. For the time being, this is only happening on ‘heavier’ types of laptops, various models running Windows 24H2 or 25H2. We’ve already tried the ‘standard’ Google solutions, without success. We’ve also consulted various AI chatbots (they usually give the same solution as Google). All installed software has been compared, where there are no immediately noticeable differences between the devices with a problem and those without. (Graphics) drivers have been updated ... Has anyone recently experienced a similar problem? submitted by /u/eggeto [link] [comments]

Nutzeranfrage: Ich kann meinen MFA-Code nicht einrichten, Scanne den QR-Code, aber die PIN nimmt das System nicht an... Erster Gedanke: Der User gibt den Code falsch ein. Hingegangen, gemeinsam gemacht - Oh wunder, es geht noch immer nicht! Zweiter Gedanke: Microsoft Auth ist eine katastrophe, nehmen wir einen anderen... - Oh wunder, es funktioniert noch immer nicht... Dritter Gedanke: Erstell einfach den Nutzer, und damit sein QR-Code neu... - Oh wunder, diesmal geht es auch nicht. ..., ..., ... ES IST DIE UHRZEIT! ES IST DIE UHRZEIT! User hat seine Uhrzeit drei Minuten vorgestellt, damit er nicht zu spät seinen Terminen kommt! Dadurch funktioniert die Timestamp vom MFA nicht mehr... submitted by /u/yuulupu [link] [comments]

How is everyone doing theirs? I have an org of circa 3000 users and HR want to use their org structure chart to build dl’s for each manager. Simple, right? No, as the org chart does not reflect the reporting structure that is managed via AD. I have proposed using a custom attribute to define head of business function and all the recursive targeted members to align with the org chart but told them they need to maintain this data to provide us with any updates so we can automate this process via exo ddl’s, which they are not happy about. They are expecting us to refer to a pdf style chart of the org structure. So, any of you guys working in medium to large enterprises… how are you guys managing your ddl’s? Thanks! submitted by /u/theballygickmongerer [link] [comments]

Hi I have seen multiple posts about this issue and I have been flagged too. Same pattern, I use firebase. Nothing dodgy at all Is there any way to have my project restored or should I create a new one? Thanks submitted by /u/Routine_Map2832 [link] [comments]

Hi guys, I am doing a setup for a POC with Azure Files for FSLogix and Entra Kerberos as the directory, I´ve followed the official documentation but it seems something has to be missing since I can not get it to work. submitted by /u/mariachiodin [link] [comments]

We've got a handful of cross tenant apps and two of them started giving some users 135018 errors (Invalid challenge received from fido assertion) who had previously had no issues. From the sign-in logs in Entra there is little detail as it seems this error is tripped early in the auth flow. No usual suspects like non compliant device or untrusted location, etc. The auth flow does not get as far as processing conditional access policy anyway. I suspect it is Windows Hello related, however I don't have access to any of those logs. Being a cross tenant app only access groups and consents are maintained in our tenant, the rest is in the vendor tenant (don't think it is app config anyway given the failure point). My next play will be to get some of the users to lock their laptop and then unlock it again to ensure a fresh token before opening the problem app. This 135018 error seems very generic with little information on the internet about what causes it/how to fix it. Just wondering if anyone had seen this before and overcome it? submitted by /u/Nicoloks [link] [comments]

I have an odd problem. We want to implement traffic manager and an Azure native loadbalancer for a simple website but we must maintain our public IP which is currently associated with an HA proxy (a vm based reverse proxy used to have one endpoint facing the internet then route traffic internally, similar to a load balancer). When i disassociate the public IP from the HA proxy and attach it to the load balancer... the Azure Traffic manager refuses to see it as 'healthy'. Always degraded. The health checks on the load balancer are good. If we go straight to the load balancer public IP we get to where we need to go, I just simply cannot put the traffic manager in front of it without it saying degraded. If we go back to attaching the public IP to the HA proxy, azure traffic manager returns to normal and healthy. I know that for using the native load balancer you need the NSG rules associated with the nic to actually be open, which we have.. How can i look deep into the logs of azure traffic manager to know WHY its returning unhealthy? The check is a simple 443 check, along with an 80 and 22 check (its an sftp server with those things showing healthy on the load balancer itself). submitted by /u/heapsp [link] [comments]

We are using Telstra's desktop messaging solution but they are retiring this in a few months. Any Aussies have a viable SMS to Email solution they are using? Ideally one that also supports MMS to email. submitted by /u/MrMagooMan24 [link] [comments]

My company gave me a Lenovo ThinkPad P14S. A few months ago, the Wi-Fi suddenly stopped working, so I contacted Lenovo support. After inspecting it, they found signs of water damage. The problem is, I genuinely don't remember ever spilling water on it. They also told me that the Wi-Fi card isn't replaceable on its own and that the entire motherboard would need to be replaced. Here's where I messed up, I never informed my company. I work from home, so I've been using a USB Wi-Fi adapter and getting by without anyone noticing. It's been a few months, and the warranty has expired. As far as my company knows, the laptop was fine, and the warranty was supposed to continue under our normal renewal cycle. I've basically been avoiding this conversation because I'm worried they'll think I hid it (which, to be fair, I did) or that I'll be held responsible for the repair cost. I know I can't avoid this forever, and I'd rather deal with it before it becomes an even bigger issue. Has anyone been in a similar situation? I don't know how to bring this up to my manager or the IT team? submitted by /u/Informalneh9 [link] [comments]

Hi everyone, I'm currently preparing for the Google Cloud Professional Machine Learning Engineer (PMLE) certification and noticed that the certification was recently updated from Vertex AI to the Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform / Agent Platform . My goal is to pass the certification within the next 2–3 months , and I'd appreciate advice from people who have already taken the updated exam or are currently preparing for it. My background Backend Software Engineer (Python + Google Cloud) Comfortable with GCP fundamentals (Cloud Storage, BigQuery, Pub/Sub, Cloud Run) Currently following the official Google Cloud Skills Boost learning path My questions What topics should I prioritize for the new PMLE exam? Which Vertex AI concepts have simply been renamed to Agent Platform, and which concepts are completely new? Besides the official course, what tutorials, YouTube channels, blogs, GitHub repositories, or labs would you recommend? How much traditional Machine Learning (feature engineering, model selection, evaluation metrics, TensorFlow) is still covered compared to Agent Platform services? Which Google Cloud services should I get hands-on experience with before taking the exam? Are there any practice exams that closely match the updated syllabus? If you passed recently, what study plan helped you succeed? I'm planning to study the following: Machine Learning fundamentals Data preprocessing and feature engineering Model evaluation (Precision, Recall, F1, ROC-AUC) BigQuery ML Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform Agent Studio ADK (Agent Development Kit) Prompt Engineering RAG Vector Search Embeddings Agent Platform Pipelines MLOps Monitoring and Responsible AI IAM and Security BigQuery Cloud Storage Pub/Sub Cloud Run Dataflow If you had 8–10 weeks to prepare from scratch for the updated exam, how would you structure your learning roadmap? I'd really appreciate any advice, resources, GitHub repos, or hands-on labs that helped you pass. Thanks! submitted by /u/mohanraj_rajaram [link] [comments]

I’m 33, have a bachelor’s in Computer Science, but no coding background. After trying a few different careers, I finally broke into IT. I started in a call center, and for the past year I’ve been working in a proper IT Help Desk on site. My day-to-day includes 365 Admin apps, Azure(AVD/Host pools/Session hosts, Windows administration, deployments, printers, troubleshooting, and a little PowerShell. It’s been an excellent foundation, but I feel like I’ve learned most of what this job has to offer. Lately, I spend more time thinking about my next move than my current role. The advice I always hear is, “Do what you’re passionate about.” The problem is, I honestly don’t know anymore. With the current market, AI, and so many different paths, I’m trying to make the smartest long-term decision - one that’s stable, in demand, and pays well. I know the typical path is Help Desk → SysAdmin, but I’m not sure that’s where I want to end up. I heard good things about Cloud, Cybersecurity, IAM, or Modern Workplace/Endpoint Engineering, but I’m open to anything that has good growth. A friend of mine found someone with training+job assistance in ServiceNow Business Analyst but that's pretty much what I'm aware of. I’m in California making about $60k, which doesn’t go very far. I’m willing to spend the next 4-6 months studying seriously if it gives me a realistic shot at a better role. If you were in my shoes today, what path would you choose? I’d really appreciate advice from people who’ve been in this position or who hire for these roles. * Which role would you target? * What skills or certifications would you prioritize? I’d really appreciate advice from people who’ve been in a similar position or who hire for these roles. TL;DR: One year into IT Help Desk and I’ve hit a learning plateau. Torn between Cloud, Cybersecurity, IAM, or SysAdmin. If you had 4–6 months to upskill for the best long-term career and salary, what would you choose? submitted by /u/saadlytics [link] [comments]

Based on the GitHub advisory published by n8n maintainer csuermann and Security Joes' disclosure via The Hacker News, here's the architectural impact: an authenticated user with workflow create/edit rights can craft arrow-function expressions that escape n8n's expression sandbox and execute arbitrary OS commands as the n8n process. Fixed in 2.31.5/2.32.1, no patched 1.x release listed, n8n Cloud exposure unconfirmed. Security Joes found it while re-probing the earlier CVE-2026-27577 fix for a bypass — second-gen escape of an already-patched boundary. Successful exploitation can also expose N8N_ENCRYPTION_KEY, meaning stored credentials (Slack, DB, cloud API keys) become decryptable. For background on why credential-rich automation layers keep producing these blast radii, see our writeup on the Docker CVE-2026-34040 AuthZ bypass: https://www.techgines.com/post/n8n-sandbox-escape-vulnerability-arrow-function-rce Anyone running n8n at scale — how are you scoping workflow-edit permissions? Full RBAC per-team, or still relying on "trusted users only" as your primary control? submitted by /u/Expert_Sort7434 [link] [comments]

I used to be able to see Cache Statistics (hit rate per URI) in the CloudFront console, but the navigation link is missing now. The documentation page mentions no changes to this functionality. https://preview.redd.it/yeh6l8oidwfh1.png?width=402&format=png&auto=webp&s=da846a092d9013fad3cb0b24e97047fab4afd3b7 submitted by /u/synack [link] [comments]

Hi everyone, I am a Network Engineer with about 1 year of experience as a Cloud Solution Architect. I have AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate and Cisco CCNA certifications. Recently, my company assigned me to study for and obtain the Google Cloud Professional Cloud Architect certification. Aside from basic hands-on labs during my universiy (which is a few years ago), I haven't spent much time on GCP yet. I’m looking for advice on learning path to prepare for the exam. I would like to ask for your experience on how to achieve this certification, such as: Which courses or study resources should I take? (My company allows me to purchase courses on Udemy, but any recommendation is welcome!) Which practice/mock exams are most effective? Any tips for the exam preparation Thanks in advance for sharing your experience and tips! submitted by /u/Uncl3_L4k3 [link] [comments]

I'm hoping someone can point me in the right direction because I've been troubleshooting this for days and I'm running out of ideas. I created a brand new Azure account about a week ago. It started as a Free Trial, and I upgraded it to an Azure Plan (Pay-As-You-Go) . From the beginning, the subscription has behaved oddly. Initially several resource providers weren't registered automatically, and I also had some issues with Entra. Those seem to have mostly resolved, but I still can't deploy VMs. Whenever I create a VM in East US , most common VM sizes are unavailable. For example: Standard_D2s_v3 Standard_B2s Bpsv2 family Many others The portal reports: Things I've already verified Subscription status is Active Subscription type is Azure Plan I'm the Owner Microsoft.Compute is Registered Resource Groups create successfully East US regional vCPU quota exists The issue occurs across multiple VM images I also checked Usage + Quotas and noticed some VM families (such as Bpsv2 ) show 0 of 0 quota, while others have quota available. At this point I'm trying to determine whether this is: A subscription provisioning issue A quota/access issue A hidden policy/restriction Or something else I'm overlooking Has anyone seen a brand new Azure Plan subscription behave like this? If so, what ended up being the cause? Any suggestions would be appreciated. I've exhausted the normal troubleshooting steps I know of. submitted by /u/Benji_style68 [link] [comments]