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Azure – You can now get notification when your Secure Score downgrade

After releasing a Power BI dashboard to follow up on the evolution of your Azure Secure Score (see https://t.co/U1I15FSuBP), you can now get an email notification if your Secure Score is reducing. The playbook is available for deployment in the Azure Security Center Github repository here https://github.com/Azure/Azure-Security-Center/tree/master/Secure%20Score/Secure%20Score%20Reduction%20Alerts Connect to the above URL and use the […]

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Azure – Define ARM templates specs (preview)

Leave a Comment / Beta / Preview, Microsoft Azure / Benoit HAMET / August 19, 2020 / ARM, ARM Template, Azure, Azure ARM, Azure ARM Template

By mow you already know you can use ARM (Azure Resource Manager) templates to deploy resources on Azure in automated and consistent way. Well, you can now define template specs, a new resource type for storing Azure template for future use. This also allows you sharing templates with other users in your organization, fixing known

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Azure – Azure Security Center is now helping you identifying weak network access

Leave a Comment / Microsoft Azure, Security / Benoit HAMET / August 18, 2020 / ASC, Azure, Azure Security, Azure Security Center

You may already know Azure Security Center, your one stop shop for anything security related on Azure, helping you managing and improving your security posture on your Azure resources (and also on-premises ones if you are in hybrid). Well, Azure Security Center is now also helping you identifying (or more importantly provides a better visibility)

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Office 365 – Get ready for end of support for Internet Explorer and Edge legacy

Leave a Comment / Office 365 / Benoit HAMET / August 18, 2020 / Edge, Edge Chromium, Internet Explorer, Microsoft Edge, Microsoft Edge Chromium, O365, O365 Admin Portal, O365 Administration Portal, Office 365, Office 365 Admin Portal, Office 365 Administration Portal

If you are still using Internet Explorer 11 or Edge Legacy (aka the first version of Edge) to access Office 365 services – like Outlook Web Access, Administration portals, Teams web or SharePoint Online – you will need to prepare to the end of support of these browser. Starting November 30, 2020 the Teams web

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OneDrive for Business – You can now manage user storage limits from the administration portal

Leave a Comment / Office 365, SharePoint / Benoit HAMET / August 13, 2020 / O365, OdB, ODfB, Office 365, OneDrive, OneDrive for Business

As you know Office 365 provides a personal storage space with OneDrive for Business. You also now you can define the storage limit (quota) applicable to all users. Good news, you can now define individual limit for OneDrive for Business directly from the Office 365 administration portal; meaning if you need to decrease/increase limit for

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Azure – Soft-delete will be enabled by default for Azure Key Vault

Leave a Comment / Microsoft Azure, Security / Benoit HAMET / August 12, 2020 / Azure, Azure Key Vault, Key Vault

You may already know Azure Key Vault, the cloud solution provided by Azure to store securely secrets (like certificates, passwords…) You may already know there is a functionality available called soft-deleted allowing to recover deleted secret up to 90 days after the deletion. This option is available from the Properties blade of the Key Vault

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Azure – You can now enable backup directly from the File blade

Leave a Comment / Microsoft Azure / Benoit HAMET / August 7, 2020 / Azure, Azure Backup, Azure File, Azure Files, Azure Recovery, Azure Recovery Service, Azure Recovery Vault, Azure Storage, Azure Storage Account, Recovery, Recovery Vault, Storage, Storage Account

As you know you can use Azure Storage account to host file shares on Azure. Also you are aware that you can backup your Azure File share to an Azure Recovery Vault. While the file share backup has been available for configuration from the Azure Recovery Vault settings for a while, you can now configure

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Azure AD Connect – Getting “An error occurred while connecting to the state store” error after updating AAD connect configuration

Leave a Comment / Azure Active Directory / Benoit HAMET / August 7, 2020 / AAD, AAD Connect, Azure Active Directory, Azure Active Directory Connect, Azure AD, Azure AD Connect

Recently I had to update the configuration of an existing Azure AD Connect – the directly synchronization tool from Microsoft to synchronize your Active Directory identities to Azure AD – instance. It was running the latest version at that time (1.5.42). The error was: An error occurred while connecting to the state store: Attempted to

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Azure – The Azure Security team has developed a Power BI Dashboard

Leave a Comment / Microsoft Azure, Power BI, Security / Benoit HAMET / August 6, 2020 / ASC, Azure, Azure Secure Score, Azure Security, Azure Security Center, Power BI, Secure Score

The team in charge of Azure Security Center has developed a Power Bi dashboard to help you track your Secure Score evolution. It also includes backlog of actions to be performed. You will have 2 setup options: Edit a Power BI template with Power BI desktop Use a Power BI application Prepare your Azure environment

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