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Azure – Service Map is now available in more region

You may already know Azure Service Map, an add-on component (Dependency agent)  running on top of the Azure Log Analytics agent providing you more insight for your applications/servers by analysing connectivity flows. It is also recommended to use it when using Azure Migrate to assess your on-premises servers when preparing for Azure migration. To know […]

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Azure – The azure portal menu has been refreshed

The Azure portal menu (aka your favourites menu) has been refreshed and now can be hidden, or flyout, giving you more space for your dashboard. The next time you logon to your Azure portal (https://portal.azure.com) you will be greaten by the below prompt asking you to choose between the flyout (Ok) or the docking mode.

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Azure – You can now have your Azure portal dashboard to auto refresh

It has been a long awaited feature for dashboards on Azure portal: getting the dashboard to auto refresh. Well, good news, the auto refresh capability for dashboard is now available in Azure portal. To start enabling this auto refresh feature, logon to your Azure portal (https://portal.azure.com), select the dashboard you want to use and check

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Azure Information protection – A new version of the plugin for Adobe PDF is available

As you may know, Microsoft and Adobe have partnered to provide a plugin for Adobe Acrobat (DC and Reader DC) to use Azure Information Protection (AIP) (see https://t.co/aPiqMBE6XZ). Well, a new version of the plugin (19.021.20047) has been released and is available for download from https://helpx.adobe.com/au/acrobat/kb/mip-plugin-download.html On this page you will find all plugin version,

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Azure – The Azure mobile app now simplifies multi subscription management

The Azure mobile application (iOS: https://apps.apple.com/au/app/microsoft-azure/id1219013620  – Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.microsoft.azure) has been updated and now simplifies management operations when you have multiple subscriptions. Previously, you had to switch between the subscription in your tenant to access the Azure resources in this subscription (as shown below) Now, you can enable the Multiple subscriptions mode (in preview) and

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Windows – Windows Analytics will be retired by January 2020

As you may be aware, a new Windows analytics solution has been released in preview called Desktop Analytics few months ago (see https://t.co/VqQV4WRj83). Desktop Analytics is aimed to replace the well-known Windows Analytics which has been here for quite some time through 3 Log Analytics solutions: Upgrade Readiness, Update Compliance and Device Health. If you

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Azure – Get your recommendations by email as soon as they are available (preview)

As you know, Azure has a feature called Azure Advisor to help you getting the most and securing your Azure resources. Well, Azure Advisor has been updated to provide you a notification feature to send an email alert as soon as you have a new recommendation. To start using it, logon to your Azure portal

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Azure – You can apply a policy to ensure the Log Analytics agent is being deployed on your virtual machine (Preview)

As you may know Azure provides a quite powerful monitoring solution for your Azure environment as well your on-premises one called Azure Log Analytics. This Log Analytics capability is also used by Azure Security Center to centralize security-related logs. The use of Azure Log Analytics requires to have a local agent (Log Analytics Agent, also

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