As you may already know, Azure comes with a set of policies to help you meet compliance and security standards (ISO 27001, SOC, PCI DSS…) and requirements. As you should have been already using it (and if not this is a good day to start ), you have to be aware that the Azure CIS
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As announced few weeks ago at the Ignite 2019 Conference, Microsoft has been working to bring Azure capabilities back to on-premises (see https://t.co/Ih1SutrNVM). Well, just in case you are already evaluating this new capability with the onboarding process of on-premises servers and if you are using SCCM and/or WSUS to manage your servers updates deployment,
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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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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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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
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
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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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).
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
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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