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Azure – Identity Recommendations are now included in Azure Security Center Free tier

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By now, you may already know that Azure Security Center (ASC) is your one-stop shop to improve your security posture in Azure. ASC comes with different pricing, including one free but limited one. Well good news, Identity Recommendations – which were limited to paid tiers previously – are now also included with the free tier. […]

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Azure – Virtual machine Scale Sets now support automatic update for custom images

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As you know with Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets you can create and group identical virtual machines to deliver load balanced and highly available service; the number of virtual machine instances is automatically increased or decreased to match the demand. You may also know that the operating system of each virtual machine part of a

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Azure – You can now recover virtual machine created with custom image

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As you may already know, it was possible to restore a virtual machine by creating a new VM, restoring as disk or replacing existing disks. Now the option to recover the virtual machine by replacing existing disks is now also supported for virtual machine created using custom images (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-machines/windows/capture-image-resource) This option is only available for

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Azure – A new version of the Azure AD Connect has been released

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Azure Active Directory Connect (AAD Connect), the directory synchronization tool to synchronize your Active Directory with Azure AD, just got refreshed with the release of the new version 1.5.18.0 In addition of the usual bug fixes – see below, there has been some improvements too: Fixed issues: Fixed a bug in the group writeback forest/OU

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Azure – You can now use device code flow sign-in to logon with Azure Explorer

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By now you should already know Azure Storage Explore, client application allowing you access your storage in Azure from Windows, MacOS or Linux devices (download link https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/features/storage-explorer/). Well, Azure Explorer has got an interesting improvement which allows you to use the device code flow sign-in to connect to your Azure tenant and access your storage

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Azure – You can now use incremental snapshots for your virtual machines

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As you may already know, you can create a snapshot of a virtual machine running on Azure when using managed disks. While this is a useful capability, there was a limitation; when creating a snapshot you were creating a full snapshot, meaning the full disk was snapshotted, involving an increase in your storage cost. Well,

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Azure – A new version of the Log Analytics agent is available

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Microsoft has released a new version (Windows version 10.20.18029 – Azure Extension version 1.0.18029) has been released. If you have keep the automatic update enabled, it should be automatically updated. You can also download it from the below links: x64 version https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=828603 x86 version https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=828604 It is important to note that this version adds support

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Azure – You can now onboard on-premises workloads to Azure Security Center using Windows Admin Center

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By now, you should already know the Azure Security Center (ASC), your one stop shop for security related recommendations and reports to help you improve your Azure security posture. You should also already know the Windows Admin Center, the new browser-based remote administration tools for Windows. Well, good news as both are now integrated as

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Azure – Azure Web Application Firewall can now integrates with Azure CDN

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You may already know Azure Web Application Firewall, the solution to protect your web applications against common exploits and vulnerabilities integrated with Azure Application Gateway. Well, Azure WAF has been improved by providing integration with Azure Content Delivery Network (CDN) – the CDN capability for delivering high bandwidth content. With this integration, your CDN endpoints

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Azure – You can now deploy Cloud Shell in new regions

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As you may know, Azure Cloud Shell, a browser-accessible shell environment allowing you to run Bash or PowerShell commands/scripts using your browser, has been available for quite some time now. Well, until today, there was only a limited number of region available for creating the Cloud Shell storage account used. Good news, more regions are

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