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Azure – The new Azure Monitor for virtual machine is now GA

By now, you should already know that Azure comes with a lot of monitoring capabilities, including for virtual machines. For the past few months, a new Azure Monitor for virtual machines has been in preview. This new Azure Monitor provides better performance trends and dependencies views to assist in providing better troubleshooting capabilities and resource […]

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Azure – You can now create custom RBAC role to access subscription or Resource Groups

As you know, access to Azure subscriptions and resources is managed using Role Based Access Control (RBAC). While Microsoft is providing a lot of out the box RBAC roles, sometime you may need to create a custom role with very specific permissions to access subscriptions and resource groups. In the past, this ability to create

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Azure Information Protection – A new version of the Unified Labelling Client has been released

By know, you may already know Azure Information Protection (AIP), the document right management services and labelling solution delivered by Azure. You may also be aware that 2 different version are currently co-existing: Azure Information Protection client and Azure Information Protection Unified Labelling client. This post is about the release of a new version of

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Azure – You can now define exclusion lists in your WAF with Azure Front Door

You may already know that Azure offers a Web Application Firewall capability. Until now, you were not able to define request attributes exclusions list to be omitted from the WAF evaluation process. Well, good news, this is now possible. The attribute supported for the exclusion: request header, cookie, query string, post args To define your

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Azure – You can now get your virtual machine scale sets to auto-repair

As you know, Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets let you create a group of identical virtual machine which then will scale up or down to match the request numbers or on a defined scheduled. That said, what if for some reason the application hosted on one or more of these virtual machine within the scale

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Azure – Azure Backup now provides reports (Preview)

Azure Backup is now providing backup reports. Azure Backup reports use Azure Monitor and Azure Workbooks to track and audit backups and restores. Azure Backup Report is providing the following benefits: Boundary-less reporting: Backup Reports work across multiple workload types that are supported by Azure Backup. This includes Azure workloads such as Azure Virtual Machines,

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Azure – Azure AD DS (Active Directory Domain Services) is can be used as Resource Forest (preview)

You may already know Azure Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS), the Azure feature allowing you to host your Active Directory Domain Services on Azure. Well, until now, this Azure AD DS capability was only available for User Forest mode (aka hosting active user accounts). Good news, you can now also provision your Azure AD

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Azure – Prepare for the Classic IaaS retirement

As you know, Azure Services came first under what is now called ‘Classic’ resource model and has evolved to the ARM (Azure Resource Manager) model. For quite some time, both Classic and ARM have been coexisting, allowing customers to provision Azure resource with either of the model. Now, it is time for the Classic IaaS

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Azure – Get prepared for the retirement of ‘legacy’ data encryption in Azure Site Recovery

You may already know that Azure Site Recovery (ASR) is encrypting data to ensure your data stay safe and secure. Well, this is an important announcement here; the current data encryption method used by Azure Site Recovery is being retired by April 30, 2022 to be replaced by Encryption at Rest capabilities (introduced earlier in

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Azure Site Recovery – Get prepared for retirement of SCVMM disaster recovery capability

Azure Site Recovery (ASR) is the disaster recovery solution from Microsoft running on Azure to help you manage and recover from disaster for your on-premises infrastructure. ASR is frequently evolving to include new capabilities and some time to get some retired. This is the case today. On March 1st, 2023 (so you have a little

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