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Azure – Azure AD Authentication for Windows virtual machine is now in preview

You may remember that about a year ago, Microsoft has introduced the capability to logon with your Azure AD credentials on Linux virtual machine running on Azure. Well, good news, this possibility is now available in preview for Windows virtual machine too – to be more precise, only on Windows 2019 or Windows 10 1809 […]

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Azure – You now have more control on when updates are being deployed

As you may already know, you have the ability to automatically deployed updates on virtual machines running on Azure (for both Windows and Linux operating systems). Well, while this helps you managing and controlling your virtual machines update process, you did not had control on the host update process, meaning for Azure Dedicated Host or

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Azure – You can now manage how Azure Web Application Firewall with Front Door handles bot

As you may already know Azure Front Door is a global secure load balanced entry point to your published Azure resources, it works closely with Azure Web Application Firewall. As you also know, any resource published to/accessible from the Internet is a target of bot, some good (like search engine bots), some bad. Protecting your

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Azure – A new service is coming to help application validation against Windows Update security updates (preview)

A new Azure service, called Update Staging Lab, is currently going under private preview (see below to register) to help ISV (and potentially you too) to validate application against pre-released builds of Windows security updates. We all know, in the past, there has been quite few drama with applications after getting some Windows Updates being

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Azure – You can now migrate your Azure AD Domain Services to ARM and use templates

You may already know Azure AD Domain Services, an Azure service which extends your on-premises directory service (AD DS) to a managed domain service, allowing you to deliver AD DS domain join, group policies, LDAP and/or Kerberos/NTLM authentication capabilities within your Azure environment without the need to deploy domain controllers virtual machine on Azure (to

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Azure – Azure Migrate can now discover installed application with the Server Assessment (preview)

By now you may know that Azure Migrate is the one-stop shop for your on-premises assessment readiness and migration to Azure, for both virtual machines (running on VMWare and/or Hyper-V) and physicals servers. Well, Azure Migrate has been improved again to allow installed application discovery during the server assessment (for now in preview for VMWare).

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Azure – You can now have a nicer view and comprehensive of the cost of your Log Analytics

You may already know what is Azure Log Analytics – if not, this is the solution to monitor the performance and health your resources (both on Azure and on-premises). Well, the Azure Log Analytics cost and pricing tier management has been updated and is now more comprehensive. To start using this is new comprehensive management

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Azure – You can now use Azure AD authentication support for point to site VPN

As you already know, you can connect to your Azure virtual networks (VNets) from your devices using either Site to Site (S2S) VPN and/or Point to Site (P2S) VPN. The Point to Site VPN connection use to require self-signed certificate for the client to connect to Azure. Well, good news, you can now use your

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Azure – Quickly find the status of Azure Security Center recommendations

As you may know, Azure Security Center (ASC) is your own stop shop for everything related to the security of your Azure infrastructure (including when running in hybrid with your on-premises servers onboarded onto Azure). Microsoft is providing default built-in rules to help you secure your resources as per the latest recommendations. Off course you

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Azure – The Live Metrics Stream public IP’s for Application insights have changed

In case you are using Azure Application Insights to monitor the performance and availability of your applications (mobile or web application), you must know that the public IP addresses used by the Live Metrics Stream feature (used to live probe your application) have changed. If you use firewall outbound restriction you must update your firewall

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