A new performance and monitor feature has been made available for Azure virtual machines called Insights. This new capabilities (in preview) allows you to have deeper performance analysis of your virtual machine. All the capabilities offered by this new feature are not all available depending of your configuration: The Health feature is only available for […]
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As you may be already aware, you have been able to manage authentication session (aka control the frequency at which your users need to re-enter their credentials) with SharePoint Online for quite some time by using the Azure AD Conditional Access. Well, now you can do the same for Exchange Online. You can use the
As you know, after provisioning a virtual machine you had to manually connect to your Azure Log Analytics workspace to deploy the Monitoring Agent on the VM and then get reporting to Azure Security Center. Well, now you can totally forget to do such thing as you will be able to get any new virtual
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As you may already know, Microsoft has introduced the Blueprints feature quite some time ago (see https://docs.microsoft.com/en-au/azure/governance/blueprints/overview to know more). At first you had to create your Blueprint from scratch but then samples have been added to help you. Well a new Blueprint sample has just been added (PCI-DSS v3.2.1) to help you setting up
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As you are aware, Windows Server 2008 R2 and SQL Server 2008/2008 R2 are reaching their end of life. Microsoft has offered to extend the support of these products if you moved them to Azure for an additional 3 years to give more time for migration. That said, once you have move your SQL Server
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After being in private preview for few months, Azure Bastion, a new way to remotely access virtual machine on Azure, is now in public preview. Azure Bastion is a PaaS (Platform as a Service) provisioned within your Azure virtual network allowing you to remotely and securely access your virtual machine using Remote Desktop (RDP) or
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As you may know Azure Multi Factor Authentication is (or was as per the below) also available for on-premises deployment (known as Azure MFA Server) to protect your on-premises systems (like remote desktop, VPN, web server or Exchange). Well, on July 1st 2019, Azure MFA will be no longer available for new deployment; existing deployment
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Azure Active Directory (AAD) B2C is supporting more and more third party identity services. After adding support for GitHub or WeChat, Azure AD B2C is now supporting Apple ID. This support comes following Apple’s announcement that all applications in the Apple App Store which support third-party sign-in will require to include Apple ID (see https://developer.apple.com/news/?id=06032019j).
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It has been announced few months ago at the Microsoft Build 2019 conference. Shared Image Gallery is now generally available in all region, except South Africa as source region (details available here https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-machines/windows/shared-image-galleries#regional-support) With Shared Image Gallery you can now manage, share and distribute custom virtual machine images easily. There are few limits to be
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As you know, you can host web applications on Azure using Azure Application Services (also called Azure Web Apps). From time to time, something may goes wrong and the web application stops servicing request in a way or another. This has always been a difficult troubleshooting task as there are so many different components and
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