Microsoft is providing easier way to manage user accounts without the need of a support call to your helpdesk. With My Staff, you can delegate some level of user management tasks to a delegated authority, like a manager or team leaser. This will help end-users stuck accessing their applications because they forgot their credentials (don’t
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As you know, Microsoft has embarked to a password-less journey by providing more secure authentication process with Windows Hello or FIDO2 security key. Well, the journey is continuing with a new way to authenticate with text messages. NOTE first, an important disclaimer as this is an early preview, there are some limitations: SMS-based authentication isn’t
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You may already know this Azure AD feature, in preview for quite some time already, called Administrative Units (AUs). This feature allows you to create a container to store Azure resources which then can be used to delegate administrative tasks, during this preview period this can contain only users and groups and is only manageable
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As you know, Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets let you create a group of identical virtual machine which then will scale up or down to match the request numbers or on a defined scheduled. That said, what if for some reason the application hosted on one or more of these virtual machine within the scale
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Azure Backup is now providing backup reports. Azure Backup reports use Azure Monitor and Azure Workbooks to track and audit backups and restores. Azure Backup Report is providing the following benefits: Boundary-less reporting: Backup Reports work across multiple workload types that are supported by Azure Backup. This includes Azure workloads such as Azure Virtual Machines,
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You may already know Azure Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS), the Azure feature allowing you to host your Active Directory Domain Services on Azure. Well, until now, this Azure AD DS capability was only available for User Forest mode (aka hosting active user accounts). Good news, you can now also provision your Azure AD
After releasing Microsoft Defender Advanced Threat Protection for MacOS few months ago, Microsoft is expanding the support of Defender ATP to Linux platform. If you are using one of the common Linux server distribution (RHEL 7+, CentOS Linux 7+, Ubuntu 16 LTS, or higher LTS, SLES 12+, Debian 9+ or Oracle EL 7) you will
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As you know, Office 365 comes with a bunch of security capabilities to help you protect your users and your IP’s as well as helping your company staying compliant with regulation. That said this is not easy to detect bad activities from internal users – either done on purpose or by mistake – such as
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By now you should know Azure Secure Score (ASS), the Azure Security feature which helps you review the security recommendations and prioritize them for you. Well, Azure Secure Score has been simplified and is now in preview. To start using this new and simplified Azure Secure Score, logon to your Azure portal (https://portal.azure.com/) and reach
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When you want to analyse performance of your Azure resources when using metrics you may also want to do a comparison with other resources. This is now possible (currently in preview for a limited set of Azure resource type). To start using the multi-resource selection, you need to logon to your Azure portal (https://portal.azure.com/) and
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