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Azure – You can now use Azure Update Manager to update SQL Server on Azure VM (preview)

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Ensuring your virtual machine and workloads running on it is an important task to maintain your security posture. You probably know that you can manage updates management on Azure using Azure Update Manager (https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/update-center/overview?tabs=azure-vms). Well, Azure Update Manager can now be used to also update your SQL instance running on a virtual machine. To do […]

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Azure – You can now implement rate-limit rules for your web application firewall (preview)

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You can now implement custom rules supporting rate-limit on your regional Web Application Gateway Firewall. The rate-limit rules detect and block abnormal high levels of traffic, helping you to protect against denial of service attack. To implement such rule, connect to your Azure portal (https://portal.azure.com/) to create a new WAF (web application firewall) policy or

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Azure – You can now customize additional response codes for your application gateway (preview)

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Application Gateway allows you to create customized error pages instead of displaying default ones. Until now, it was allowing to customize only the HTTP 403 (Forbidden) and HTTP 502 (Bad Gateway) error codes. Well, good news as now you can also customize 6 additional error codes: 400 – Bad Request 405 – Method Not Allowed

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Azure – New cost management workbook available in preview

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Managing cost when running cloud services is an important thing and maybe sometime difficult, especially ensuring you are using all cost optimization benefits such as Azure Hybrid benefits. To help you checking you are properly optimizing your workloads cost, a new workbook is now available in preview to give you an overview of your cost.

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Azure – Geo redundancy is now available in preview for large file shares (preview)

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As you know, you can implement geo redundancy for Azure Storage account and Azure File Shares. But there was some limitations such as the size of the file share. Well, good news, as you can now use this redundancy for large file shares and even better it is supported for production, even if this is

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Azure – You can now use custom error page in App Service (preview)

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App Service now supports to define custom error page for 403, 502 and 503 error codes. This capability is available for both Linux and Windows workloads when using a Premium SKU. NOTE this is not available for ASE v2 SKU Before setting up your custom error page, you need to create the new HTML page

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Office 365 – You can now enable Optical Character Recognition (OCR) in Pureview (preview)

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As you know, Office 365 comes with capabilities to help you protect your data and ensure compliance – namely Pureview Information Protection and Pureview Data Loss Prevention (DLP). Well, good news as you can now enable Optical Character Recognition (OCR) for both features (in preview). After turning it on, compliance policies like DLP and auto-labeling

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Azure Virtual Desktop – New client available from the Microsoft Store (preview)

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If you use Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD), you know you can access your resources using either a web browser, the AVD Remote Desktop client on Windows or Mac or mobile on iOS/Android. Well, now you have a new client option through the Microsoft Store. This new client has the same features and capabilities than the

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Azure AD – You can use conditional access for PIM (preview)

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As you know with Azure AD (P1 or P2) you can protect access to your workloads using Conditional Access. Well, you can now also use Conditional Access when used with PIM (Privileged Identity Management) (in preview), or more specifically when protected actions are being used. The below protected actions are currently supported: Update basic properties

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