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
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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
As you know, you can protect your Azure Storage account by using shared access signatures and/or restricting from which network the storage account can be access. The later use the service endpoint Microsoft.Storage you enable on your virtual network and/or subnet. Well, the use of service endpoint to restrict access to your storage account from
This has been a long awaited capability, being able to setup a serverless FTP. Well, good news, you can now enabled SFTP (Secure FTP) access to your blob storage. First thing first, you need to register the SFTP support for Azure Blob Storage provider by accessing the Preview features blade from your subscription This feature
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As an Azure administrator you may already know how difficult it can be to manage virtual networks across various subscriptions, even if you initially deployed the resources using ARM templates to ensure common based configuration. Well, good new, a new feature is now in preview – Azure Virtual Network Manager – which will allow you
If you work with Azure Virtual Machines you may and should already know Azure Bastion, the feature allowing you to connect directly to a virtual machine with RDP or SSH from the web browser without the need to have a public IP and have management ports opened. Well, good news the long awaited connection using
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IF you work with Microsoft Azure, you already know Azure Automation Account and the Automation Account uses certificate to be able to ‘runas’ and execute the actions you defined. Well, you can now use Managed Identities (either User Assigned or System Assigned). In the case of User Assigned Managed Identity, you can only use it
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As you know, recent physical devices come with embedded security feature to help protect the operating system; features like TPM chipset or secure boot. Well, unfortunately until now these features were not available when running virtual machines on Azure. Good news, this now possible to turn on these security feature on Azure Virtual Machine. To
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If you still have on-premises Active Directory you probably are synching your directory with Azure AD using the directory synchronization tool Azure AD Connect. As you may be already aware, there is now 2 versions of Azure AD Connect: 1.x and 2.x The 1.x version is some sort of legacy version allowing customer still running
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If you work with virtual machines on Azure you already know that sometime things go wrong and you need to troubleshoot what is happening with the resource. While there is already quite few troubleshooting tools available on Azure, you now have a new tool at your disposal called VM Inspector for Azure virtual machines. The
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