Azure – You can now enable cross-region restore when using Azure Backup (preview)

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As you probably know, you can backup your servers using Recovery Service Agent (MARS) when using Azure Backup. Well, you can now enable cross-region restore (CRR) to help you ensuring service continuity when the primary region is unavailable or to test recovery on the secondary region for audit/compliance purposes. Before being able to do so, […]

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Azure – You can now save and manage MARS agent passphrase in Key Vault (preview)

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If you are using Recovery Service Agent (MARS) to backup your servers in Azure Recovery Vault, you know you need to use a passphrase, used to encrypt data. Until now, this passphrase had to be stored in some secure location. Well, good news as you can now use Azure Key Vault to save and manage

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Azure – You can now use your own certificate for domain validation with Azure Front Door

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Azure Front Door Standard and Premium SKUs now allows you to use your own certificate when validating the custom domain. Azure Front Door will automatically approve the custom domain if the Certificate Name (CN) or Subject Alternative Name (SAN) of the certificate matches the custom domain. It will improve and simplify the domain validation process,

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Entra ID – You can now use Employee hire date in dynamic groups (preview)

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As you probably already know, Microsoft has introduced some time ago the Employee hire date attribute in Microsoft Entra ID (formerly known as Azure AD). Well, good news as you can now use this attribute in dynamic group. The Employee hire date (employeeHireDate) is a string type. You can use either Greater Than or Equal

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Teams – Access to webinar is now limited to 3 concurrent devices

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  Until now, participants to Teams webinar were able to access the webinar from unlimited devices.   Because registered participants are were/are able to share with others their registration link, this cause discrepancy in attendees report.   Now, access to webinar can only be done from 3 concurrent devices, meaning if registered attendees share their

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Azure – You can now enable explicit proxy on your Azure Firewall (preview)

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By default, Azure Firewall operates in a transparent proxy mode, where traffic is routed through the firewall using a user-defined route (UDR) configuration. Well, you can now enable explicit proxy mode for outbound traffic. With this mode enabled, you have the option to configure a proxy setting (either manually or using PAC file) on the

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Azure – You can now enable auto-learn SNAT for Azure Firewall (preview)

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Azure Firewall can now learn address ranges and automatically configure them to be excluded from Source Network Address Translation (SNAT) for outbound connections (see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/load-balancer/load-balancer-outbound-connections/). This helps reducing time and complexity when manually defining SNAT ranges. When auto-learn SNAT functionality, the auto-learn will configure the firewall every 30 minutes for both registered and private ranges.

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Entra ID – It is now easier to identify privileged administration roles

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Entra ID (aka Azure AD) now allows you to quickly identified privileged administration roles. While it is obvious for some roles (such as Global Administrator), some others may be more subject to your own understanding/interpretation of the role. To help you, Entra ID is now showing a privileged tag, which can also be used as

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Intune – You can now configure the installation time for Win32 applications

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When deploying application, sometime the installation process may be stuck and you usually define a time out (or installation time) to ensure the installation process will stop and be marked as failed if running longer. Well, you can now do this with Intune when deploying Win32 applications. The maximum installation time (in minutes) is 1440.

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Azure – You can now use Azure Update Manager to update SQL Server on Azure VM (preview)

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Ensuring your virtual machine and workloads running on it is an important task to maintain your security posture. You probably know that you can manage updates management on Azure using Azure Update Manager (https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/update-center/overview?tabs=azure-vms). Well, Azure Update Manager can now be used to also update your SQL instance running on a virtual machine. To do

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