As you know the beauty of the PaaS is you don’t have anymore to manage the underlying infrastructure (patching OS for example) as this the responsibility of the cloud provider. Well, while this is very interesting you lose a little bit of control, especially when it comes to maintenance. Well, you can now manage the […]
Azure – Maintenance window is available for SQL Database and SQL Managed Instance Read More »
As you know, Azure Virtual Desktop (aka AVD, aka Windows Virtual Desktop) is the Microsoft solution to securely provide virtualized remote desktop virtualized on Azure. To connect to an AVD session you need to use the remote desktop client (available here https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-desktop/user-documentation/connect-windows-7-10/?WT.mc_id=M365-MVP-7836) and then get your end-users to subscribe to a workspace. Well, good news
Azure Virtual Desktop/Intune – You can now auto-configure the AVD Remote Desktop Client Read More »
As you may already know, Azure Bastion allows you to connect to an Azure virtual machine using either SSH or RDP without the need to have a public IP address and management ports authorized on the network security group (NSG) (see https://t.co/UBOCpnMD2k). Since Azure Bastion has been made available, there has been some improvements to
Azure – You can now transfer files to your Azure virtual machine using Bastion (preview) Read More »
EDIT adding the availability to do so when deleting VM As you know after deleting a virtual machine on Azure you need to delete the depend resources – virtual disk, network interface… Well, good news, you can now request to delete the associated resources when you delete a virtual machine. When you create a new
For those managing Azure resources mainly from the portal, especially virtual machines, and want to learn more about PowerShell or Azure Cli command to manage these virtual machines, you can now get the most frequent commands pre-configured for a specific virtual machine. To take advantage of this new learning capability, connect to your Azure portal
As you know, when you use the Azure portal you can view all resources deployed within your environment either by using the ‘All Resources’ option, selecting a specific Azure resource type (like virtual machine, virtual network….) or from the Overview of a resource group. Until now you only had one view available for showing the
Azure – A new view is available for showing resources Read More »
In February 2022, a new root and intermediate certificate authorities will be used for Azure Storage TLS certificate. The new authority will be DigiCert Global G2 Root. For most of Azure Storage deployment this change will have no impact and will be totally transparent. However if you have explicitly define a list of acceptable CA
If you have a need to run workloads on a virtual machine with high security and confidentiality requirements you can now use a confidential Azure Virtual Machine. This specific capability is provided thanks to AMD processors using SEV-SNP technologies. The confidential compute is available with the DC and EC virtual machine SKUs: DCasv5-series: Confidential VM
Azure – You can now use Azure Virtual Machine confidential compute (preview) Read More »
If you work with Azure Storage accounts, you may already know the Azure Storage Explorer utility you can install on your client (Windows or MacOS) as well as it equivalent from the Azure portal. Well, the Storage Explorer experience from the portal has changed and is now called Storage browser and provides a simplified storage
Azure – A new Storage Explorer experience is available (preview) Read More »
As you should already know you can use Azure Key Vault to store secret (either keys, secret or certificates) in a secure way for use by end users and/or automation. Well, until then when you had a key going to expired you had to manually renew/update it. Not anymore, you can now configure auto-rotation to
