UPDATED March 8 – 10:50 AM: blueprints for shared services and ASE/SQL workloads will be released next week. Blueprints for PCI compliance is in the roadmap Azure Blueprints – the Azure feature allowing you to define policies for managing your Azure environment – has been updated and now propose built-in samples to help you quickly […]
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Microsoft Teams is now allowing you to add a new tab to a Yammer group. To do so, just hit the + (plus) sign to add a new tab and search for Yammer Then ensure the ‘Add to a Team’ option is set to Yes (default) – if set to No, you will not be
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The public preview of Azure Premium Blog Storage is now available. Premium Blob Storage is providing quicker data access by using SSD (solid-state drive) than with ‘classic’ Blob Storage (about 10 times quicker). This new storage capability on Azure can be helpful for workloads with high transaction rates, like IoT or Telemetry. Premium Blog Storage
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Azure Site Recovery (ASR) got an update to allow replicating virtual machine for VMWare to managed disk. With this capability there is no more need for creating storage account when replicating the data.
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Instant restore of virtual machine is now available in Azure. With this new capability, there is no more wait time for the snapshot to be copied into the Recovery Vault before being able to perform a restore operation. In addition, you can also overwrite the original disk instead of creating a copy when performing in-place
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The latest Intune updates introduce the ability to rename Windows 10 devices (1809 [aka RS4] and later). When using the feature, the next time the Windows 10 client connects to Intune his name will be changed. To start using it, logon to your Intune tenant either from the Azure portal (https://portal.azure.com) or your Devices Management
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Azure Sentinel is a cloud-based security information event management (SIEM) and security orchestrator automated response (SOAR) providing you security analytics and threats intelligence from a single point. During the preview, Azure Sentinel is free of charge. Final pricing will be announced at a later stage; data import from Office 365 is free. To start using
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If you use the Azure portal to access your Azure Recovery Vault backup reports you will start seeing a notification related to the Azure Backup Reporting upgrade which will start using PowerBi for the reports. To be able to start using PowerBi for your Azure Backup Reporting you need: a storage account, used to store
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You can define a time zone when setting up (or updating) your Azure Backup policy. The next time you update or create an Azure Backup policy you will need to set the time zone for this policy. This can be quite helpful when you have an organization working in different time zone. If you already
Dynamic Thresholds is now available in public preview, providing a significant enhancement to Azure Monitor Metric Alerts. With Dynamic Thresholds you no longer need to manually identify and set thresholds for alerts. The alert rule leverages advanced machine learning (ML) capabilities to learn metrics’ historical behavior, while identifying patterns and anomalies that indicate possible service
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