Peter Upfold

I was struggling recently with decrypting LibreOffice documents that had been encrypted using LibreOffice’s Encrypt with GPG key option.

I’m really delighted and honoured to have been included in this list — Computing.co.uk’s Rising Stars 2025!

When monitoring network switches that have end-user-facing ports, such as desk ports, it is excessively noisy to monitor these for conditions like “this port has gone down!”.

In this blog post, we’ll be: configuring a virtual network topology in Azure in the “hub and spoke model” deploying an example resource (a Key Vault) in our spoke network restricting access to the Key Vault using a private endpoint connection so that it is

Azure SQL Database’s point in time restore and long term retention are solid backup options, of which you’d have every reasonable expectation for a PaaS service!

If you have at some point enabled Microsoft’s Cloud Update in the Microsoft 365 Apps admin center, and later want to update a device managed in this way to Current Channel (Preview) or the beta channel, you may find yourself tearing your hair out wondering

Ingesting data from Zscaler Internet Access and Zscaler Private Access into a SIEM is a valuable technique for identifying risky endpoint activity or system compromise.

The Symptom Users were experiencing a 5-15 second delay when saving a document to OneDrive or SharePoint, during which Word would show as “not responding”.

Running a bleeding-edge rolling release Linux distribution like Arch Linux has its challenges and risks, but there is perhaps no greater feeling of absolute control over your own operating system!

Image credit: https://unsplash.com/photos/person-wearing-black-leather-shoes-VUWDlBXGogg by Fallon Michael I frequently SSH into various systems from my primary Linux machine.