4 new playbooks to demonstrate Azure Security Center capabilities are available. With these 4 playbooks you can demonstrate/evaluate Azure Security Capabilities to protect your Azure resources against virus attack, SQL injection, DDoS on public IP or cross site scripting. You can deploy the playbooks from the following URL to your Azure tenant: Virus attack playbook […]
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If you are using Azure Virtual Machine and have configure it to use unmanaged disks, you can now migrate to managed disks without having to delete and recreate the virtual machine. The below list gives you some good reason to move to managed disks: Scale your application without worrying about storage account limits Achieve high-availability
When you create a virtual machine on Azure using the Azure portal, you can now choose between Basic or Advanced when setting up the Network Security Group (NSG). The Basic option let you select which default ports (HTTP, HTTPS, RDP, SQL…) to allow (keeping in mind that this/these port(s) will be exposed to the internet)
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I just found it but apparently it has been there for few weeks already; you can run predefined command from the Azure portal to the Azure virtual machine. The predefined commands you can execute are: RunPowerShellScript to executes a PowerShell script; the script must be saved in the virtual machine EnableRemotePS to enable remote PowerShell
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With the latest update for System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) Current Branch (build 1806), you can now select and use Azure Resource Manager (ARM) when deploying Cloud Management Gateway (CMG) and/or Cloud Distribution Point (CDP); this should now be your preferred option for such deployment. Using the SCCM Console, go to the Administration workspace and
With the latest release of System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) Current Branch (build 1806), you can now use your cloud management gateway to distribute content. Previously you had to deploy 2 separate cloud roles: the cloud management gateway AND the cloud distribution point. To enable this option, go to the Administration workspace and reach out
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A new capability feature has been released on Azure: Azure Management Groups. This new capability will help you managing and organizing your Azure subscriptions while ensuring compliance and governance is properly applied. By using Azure Management Groups you can now reduce the workloads and risks associated with user assignments; like granting access to multiple subscriptions
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One of the important security management responsibilities of Microsoft Intune is the ability to issue certificates to devices using the Simple Certificate Enrollment Protocol (SCEP). Starting today, Intune now supports third party certification authorities for SCEP – starting with Entrust as first CA. Support of Active Directory Certificate Services is still supported of course Below
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The Self Service Password Reset, available with Azure AD and Office 365, has been updated to let your end-user use the Microsoft Authenticator mobile app when using the Self Service Password Reset (SSPR). First you need to enable this new capability from your Azure AD portal (https://aad.portal.azure.com/) or Azure portal (https://portal.azure.com) and reach the Password
You may already be aware of this security feature called Azure AD Conditional Access helping you protecting and securing access to your resources published through Azure AD. A new capability to this feature has been added (in preview) to provide a better reporting and troubleshooting capabilities: Azure AD Conditional Access Sign-Ins Report To start using
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