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Azure – Azure Recovery now supports SQL 2019 and restore as file

Azure Recovery Services is keeping up with the latest release of Microsoft SQL, SQL Server 2019, as it now supports backing up SQL Server 2019 data running on virtual machine. This also includes support for SQL Server 2019 running on Windows Server 2019. In addition of this support, you also now restore SQL backup as […]

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Azure – Azure Migrate can now assess physical servers and VDI (preview)

You may already know Azure Migrate, the one stop shop to help you assessing and migrating your on-premises virtual machines/workloads to Azure services. Well, good news, Azure Migrate is now able to provide assessment for physical servers and VDI too, in addition of the Hyper-V or VMWare virtual machines. If you are starting with Azure

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Azure – New Azure Key Vault policies to help you manage your certificates

As you know, with Azure Key Vault you can save various credentials details, including certificates used by your application or your Azure infrastructure services. With the increase of certificates use, you may have more and more certificates saved into your Key Vault, making it more complicated to manage. Well, good new, new policies have been

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Azure – You can now use a Key Vault extension with your Azure Virtual Machines

This is something which is going to simplify your life: the Key Vault extension for Azure Virtual Machine. Using this extension you will have simpler access to Azure Key Vault for your applications running on Azure Virtual Machines. The Key Vault extension supports the following operating systems: Windows Windows Server 2019 Windows Server 2016 Windows

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Azure – You can now define automation workflow on Azure Security Center (preview)

By now you should already know Azure Security Center (ASC), the unified one-stop shop security management for Azure, providing you details about your security posture and potential improvements. Well, you can now define automation workflow (in preview) to automate actions based on detection alerts or security center recommendations. Automation workflow uses Logic App to execute

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Azure – Extend Azure to your on-premises with ARC

As announced at the Microsoft Ignite 2019 Conference (see https://t.co/3saEyWJRta) you can now extend Azure Resource Manager (ARM) capabilities – including your Azure governance policies – to your on-premises servers with Azure ARC, as well as other cloud services. By extending ARM outside of Azure, you will be able to see your servers on the

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Azure – You can now use a central configuration and management point for Azure Firewall

You may already know Azure Firewall, the managed, cloud-based network security solution protecting your Azure virtual network resources. Well, good news, you can now have a central configuration and management point for Azure Firewall, called Azure Firewall Manager, to help you manage your cloud-based security perimeters. Azure Firewall Manager works with Azure Virtual WAN Hub

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Azure – You can now request code analysis with Microsoft Secure Code Analysis

With the Microsoft Security Code Analysis extension, you can integrate security analysis tools including Credential Scanner, BinSkim, and others into your Azure DevOps continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD) pipelines. Such code review is highly recommended as per the Secure Development Lifecycle (SDL) recommendations. This feature will increase your developers productivity while ensuring your code is

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Azure – You can now use Azure AD Authentication to logon on Windows virtual machines (preview)

After  getting the ability to logon on Linux virtual machines on Azure using your Azure AD credentials (see http://blog.hametbenoit.info/2018/05/23/azure-you-can-use-your-azure-ad-credentials-to-logon-to-linux-vm/), you can now also do the same with Windows virtual machine (Windows Server 2019 Datacenter and Windows 10 1809 [or later]), available to all Azure regions. To be able to use it, you need to ensure

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