Lets make a first start of the VanAssistant today. What are going to do? We are going to prepare a Raspberry Pi (4 or 5) to become a VanAssistant server. I call it VanAssistant now because we will adapt some settings on the hardware to make sure that we can control a lot of stuff in our CamperVan/Mobile home or RV or whatever we call them. This setup will also work in various other situations where your Home Assistant must run independent of where it is.

A short one today. I have had a non humourous last year. My family and me went through some deep holes as we call them. Real friends know what all happened and I would like to keep it that way. Time to leave that behind. I want to start something new. Last year I switched teams. Now I am in team that does a lot of Azure related services around Data and Analytics.

A short one today. In my previous post about Data Saturday Croatia I promised to publish the sources I used for preparing my presentation. Yesterday I published them to my Github account, so it is time to do a litle round of explanation again. I have revised the files a bit by adding probably valuable comments. The link to all my presentations can be found here, despite this is the first one that I really publish on my github presenentations page.

It is a wrap. Data Saturday Croatia is done. After a few weeks of preparations and a lot of frustration it is done. My session is finished. The session was about how you could aggregate your Audits or Extended Events together with Defender in one place and how you can find it back. I showed the audience how to configure your on prem servers, and also Azure SQL components, for sending additional data to the Log Analytics workspace.

One of my friends created a post on changes in the Azure Managed Instance (later: MI) policies today. Reading his post covered some drawbacks why he was not that happy with them. Even me, when reading his post. And only reading that post it made sense to me as well. It was a reason for me to open a discussion in the LinkedIn. My first opinion was that he was right and I still think his explanation fits.

For me, this year was an awesome year. I have done many new things. I found, that after all the Corana stuff I had to change a bit of the things I am doing. Just before Corona I tried getting into the world of the speaking. It is difficult to get involved. I have reached out to some people and together we made a first attempt to get into it. Few good fellows have helped me with this.

For a specific home project at my fathers place I needed to add data to a database which was in the cloud. The only thing was that that project could only do restfull requests. Because I played with data API Builder (DAB) quite intensive I thought about pulling up a dab server on a raspberry Pi. Of course my first attempts failed. I first wanted to run the package from the cloud straight by downloading binaries and see if that would work.