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Azure – Default outbound internet access will be retired in September 2025

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As you know when you deploy virtual machines in Azure, these VM’s automatically have internet provided through a default outbound internet access. Because the default outbound connectivity uses a default public address which can change and is not compliant with a Zero trust approach, it has been a recommendation to implement an explicit outbound connectivity …

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Azure – You can request to join the private preview for enabling Trusted Launch on existing virtual machines

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  As you may know, since October 2021, you can enable Trusted Launch capabilities (TPM, Secure Boot) when creating virtual machines on Azure (see https://t.co/94CVmga284).   Well, you can now request to join the private preview to enable Trusted Launch on existing virtual machines by filling this form https://forms.office.com/pages/responsepage.aspx?id=v4j5cvGGr0GRqy180BHbR2RiF4tSllVBmoqo337yG5lUMFBLVjVNVkdGUUxQRzRMUElKM0RaV1hLVi4u.   You will have to provide …

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OneDrive – OneDrive client will be blocked on VM running unsupported FSLogix

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  Starting January 2023 – expected to be completed by February 2023, OneDrive sync client will be blocked on virtual machine running FSLogix older than 2009 Hot Fix 1.   If after this hard block has been deployed, you are running OneDrive on a virtual machine with an unsupported FSLogix, an error message will be …

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Azure – You can now easily enable recommended alerts for virtual machine

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It is important to monitor the health of your workloads. On Azure, this can be done by settings alerts to get notification or execute actions based on conditions. It is now becoming easier to quickly enable a set of recommended alerts for your virtual machine running on Azure. To do so, connect to your Azure …

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Azure – New KMS DNS in Azure global cloud

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As you are probably already aware, when you deploy Windows virtual machines in Azure, Windows use the Azure KMS DNS to activate Windows. Well, in June 2022, a new KMS DNS – azkms.core.windows.net – has started to be rolled out. Existing virtual machines already activated remain activated with kms.core.windows.net. It is now generally available in …

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Azure – You can now get most frequent PowerShell/Azure Cli commands to manage virtual machine from the portal

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For those managing Azure resources mainly from the portal, especially virtual machines, and want to learn more about PowerShell or Azure Cli command to manage these virtual machines, you can now get the most frequent commands pre-configured for a specific virtual machine. To take advantage of this new learning capability, connect to your Azure portal …

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Azure – You can now use Azure Virtual Machine confidential compute (preview)

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If you have a need to run workloads on a virtual machine with high security and confidentiality requirements you can now use a confidential Azure Virtual Machine. This specific capability is provided thanks to AMD processors using SEV-SNP technologies. The confidential compute is available with the DC and EC virtual machine SKUs: DCasv5-series: Confidential VM …

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Azure – Use of native client to connect to Azure Bastion is here

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If you work with Azure Virtual Machines you may and should already know Azure Bastion, the feature allowing you to connect directly to a virtual machine with RDP or SSH from the web browser without the need to have a public IP and have management ports opened. Well, good news the long awaited connection using …

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Azure – You can now enable Trusted Launch on Azure Virtual Machines (preview)

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As you know, recent physical devices come with embedded security feature to help protect the operating system; features like TPM chipset or secure boot. Well, unfortunately until now these features were not available when running virtual machines on Azure. Good news, this now possible to turn on these security feature on Azure Virtual Machine. To …

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Windows 11 – Windows 11 is now available in preview in Azure Virtual Desktop and Azure Virtual Machine

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By now, you may already know that a new Windows version – Windows 11 – is coming by the end of this year. You may already know that you can deliver Windows 10 experience on the cloud using Windows Virtual Desktop (WVD – now known as Azure Virtual Desktop, AVD) and Azure Virtual Machine. Well, …

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