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Azure – Azure Communication Services is being retired in September 2028

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Microsoft has announced the retirement of Azure Communication Services (ACS) in September 2028. Azure Communication Services has been a cloud based solution provided to integrate applications, web sites or systems with email, text message or real time voice/video chats; it was even able to integrate with marketing solutions to track down email clicks. This service

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Azure – Configuration change analysis (preview)

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When troubleshooting issue(s) with Azure resources, it is usually difficult to identify has changed between a working situation and a failed situation, especially when there is participants. This is why Microsoft has introduced the Change Analysis feature. At this stage, this feature only covers changes made at VPN, network, Firewall and Virtual Machine level. The

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Entra ID/Azure – You can now report an issue from Entra ID and Azure portals (preview)

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You probably have experienced over the past few weeks issues authenticating or accessing Microsoft portals and services. Sometime the service health portal (Azure status or central portal Microsoft service health status) may not be updated accordingly, neither the Twitter feeds for each services. This makes investigating bit more difficult to identify if this is something

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Azure – You can now use Entra ID authentication when connecting to a virtual machine using Bastion

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As you probably know now, you can connect to Azure virtual machines using either remote desktop (RDP) or SSH without being obliged to allow such management ports to be opened with network security group using Azure Bastion. Until then you could authenticate to the virtual machine running Windows using either password from a key vault

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Azure – You can now create tenant level service health alerts (preview)

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As part of a correct Azure governance, you need to implement alerts to be alerts in case something wrong arise. As part of such alerts, you need to implement service health alerts too. However, unfortunately you had to set such health service alerts for every single Azure subscription and do it all over again for

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Azure – You can now export your resources with Terraform (preview)

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As you know, you have been able to export your Azure deployment(s) or resource(s) into ARM templates using the Export template option. Well, good news as now you can also use Terraform export First thing first, you need to register the Microsoft.AzureTerraform provider either from the Azure portal, Azure Cli or PowerShell; you can also

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Azure – Get ready for Basic SKU retirement for public IP

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As announced quite some time ago, Microsoft is retiring the public IP address Basic SKU on March 2025. To prepare for this retirement, you need to upgrade any Basic public IP to the Standard SKU (see Public IP addresses in Azure – Azure Virtual Network | Microsoft Learn for SKU comparison). To help you identify

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Azure – Live data disk resize available for virtual machine

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When you deploy a new virtual machine, you can define the virtual disks size. From time to time, your initial disk sizing may be too short and you need to increase the disk size to provide more storage space. Until now, before being able to resize the disk you had to shutdown the virtual machine.

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