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Azure – NFS v3 and v4 are now available for Storage Account (Preview)

Leave a Comment / Beta / Preview, Microsoft Azure / Benoit HAMET / January 4, 2020 / Azure, Azure Storage, Storage, Storage Account

Good news for those working with Azure Storage Account, support for NFS (Network File System) v3 and v4 have been added to Azure Storage Account. That said, there is currently a requirement to first register your subscription as this is currently in preview; registration form is available at https://aka.ms/AzureNFSPreview For your information: NFS v3 is

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Azure AD B2C – New phone sign in authentication method available (preview)

Leave a Comment / Beta / Preview, Microsoft Azure, Security / Benoit HAMET / December 19, 2019 / AAD B2C, Azure Active Directory B2C, Azure AD B2C, Password Less, PasswordLess

After being introduced for Azure Active Directory (AAD), the phone sign in authentication method is now being available (in preview) for Azure Active Directory Business to Consumer (AAD B2C). This allows you to setup authentication method allowing your consumer users to authenticate using their phone number and one one-time code. To start using it you

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Azure AD – The Azure AD Application gallery has been refreshed

Leave a Comment / Beta / Preview, Microsoft Azure / Benoit HAMET / December 17, 2019 / AAD Application, Azure Active Directory Application, Azure AD Application

As you already know, you can integrate your applications or third party SaaS applications with Azure AD using the Azure AD Application Gallery. The next time you go to integrate a new application with your Azure AD, you may want to switch to the new and refreshed gallery, which provides a cleaner and simpler view.

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Azure – Azure AD Authentication for Windows virtual machine is now in preview

Leave a Comment / Beta / Preview, Microsoft Azure / Benoit HAMET / December 13, 2019 / Azure, Azure Virtual Machine, Azure VM

You may remember that about a year ago, Microsoft has introduced the capability to logon with your Azure AD credentials on Linux virtual machine running on Azure. Well, good news, this possibility is now available in preview for Windows virtual machine too – to be more precise, only on Windows 2019 or Windows 10 1809

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Azure – You now have more control on when updates are being deployed

Leave a Comment / Beta / Preview, Microsoft Azure / Benoit HAMET / December 11, 2019 / Azure, Azure Virtual Machine, Azure VM, Updates deployment

As you may already know, you have the ability to automatically deployed updates on virtual machines running on Azure (for both Windows and Linux operating systems). Well, while this helps you managing and controlling your virtual machines update process, you did not had control on the host update process, meaning for Azure Dedicated Host or

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Azure – You can now manage how Azure Web Application Firewall with Front Door handles bot

1 Comment / Beta / Preview, Microsoft Azure, Security / Benoit HAMET / December 10, 2019 / Azure, Azure Front Door, Azure Front Door Service, Azure WAF, Azure Web Application Firewall, Front Door, Front Door Service, Web Application Firewall

As you may already know Azure Front Door is a global secure load balanced entry point to your published Azure resources, it works closely with Azure Web Application Firewall. As you also know, any resource published to/accessible from the Internet is a target of bot, some good (like search engine bots), some bad. Protecting your

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Azure AD Connect – You can now provision cloud identity from disconnected Active Directory

Leave a Comment / Azure Active Directory, Beta / Preview, Office 365 / Benoit HAMET / December 6, 2019 / AAD, AAD Connect, Azure Active Directory, Azure Active Directory Connect, Azure AD, Azure AD Connect, Cloud Provisioning, Disconnected Active Directory, Disconnected AD

As you already know Azure Active Directory Connect (AAD Connect) is the easiest and quickest way to provision identities in Azure AD, especially for large organization, while providing simple authentication method to cloud services (password hash sync, Seamless SSO…). That being said, you may find yourself in position you have to quickly provide cloud identities

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Office – Office 365 administrators can now manage the ‘What’s new” user experience (preview)

Leave a Comment / Beta / Preview, Office, Office 365 / Benoit HAMET / December 6, 2019 / Office, Office 365, Office 365 C2R, Office 365 Click-To-Run, What's new

As you know, since the introduction of the Office Click-to-Run (Office C2R) installation methods, Microsoft has been improving communication to raise awareness of what is coming/new after your Office installation has been updated. Until now, Office 365 administrators did not had much control on managing this “What’s new” feature. Well, good new, such management capability

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Azure – A new service is coming to help application validation against Windows Update security updates (preview)

Leave a Comment / Beta / Preview, Microsoft Azure / Benoit HAMET / December 6, 2019 / Azure, Update Staging Lab

A new Azure service, called Update Staging Lab, is currently going under private preview (see below to register) to help ISV (and potentially you too) to validate application against pre-released builds of Windows security updates. We all know, in the past, there has been quite few drama with applications after getting some Windows Updates being

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Azure – Azure Migrate can now discover installed application with the Server Assessment (preview)

Leave a Comment / Beta / Preview, Microsoft Azure / Benoit HAMET / December 3, 2019 / Azure, Azure Migrate

By now you may know that Azure Migrate is the one-stop shop for your on-premises assessment readiness and migration to Azure, for both virtual machines (running on VMWare and/or Hyper-V) and physicals servers. Well, Azure Migrate has been improved again to allow installed application discovery during the server assessment (for now in preview for VMWare).

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