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Azure – Live data disk resize available for virtual machine

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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Azure Virtual Desktop – Transitioning from remote desktop client to Windows App

If you use Azure Virtual Desktop, you already know that there are multiple options to connect to your virtual desktop host: Azure Virtual Desktop client Azure Virtual Desktop (preview) application from Microsoft Store Web browser (Remote Desktop Web Client (microsoft.com)) and more recently (since November 2023) the Windows App (see Azure Virtual Desktop – A

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Azure – You can now use dashboard on Azure mobile application

If you are using Microsoft Azure to host and run some workloads on cloud services, you know that you can create and use dashboards when accessing the Azure portal. Well, good news as you can now do the same when using the Azure mobile application (available at the bottom of the Azure mobile app home

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Azure – Deploy Azure Bastion as private (preview)

By now I hope you know about Azure Bastion, the Azure solution allowing you to connect to your Azure virtual machine though the web browser rather than opening management ports or deploying a jump box virtual machine. Lately, Microsoft has introduced a free version of Azure Bastion (Bastion Developer – see Azure – New low

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Azure – You can now use ephemeral Cloud Shell

If you use Microsoft Azure cloud services, you probably are already aware about the Cloud Shell functionality which allows you to run PowerShell or Bash scripts/commands directly from the web browser. This functionality requires to setup a storage account to store your scripts and user sessions. Well good news as now you can also use

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Azure – You can now use agentless crash consistent backup (preview)

Agentless multi-disk crash consistent backups for Azure VM backup allows taking VM backups without installing additional software like the VM agent or snapshot extension in your VM. If the workload running on the virtual machine is performance sensitive and can recover from crash consistent backups, this feature can help reduce the quiesce time during backup.

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Azure – The new version – 11.4.0 – of Azure PowerShell helps protecting against secrets leaking (preview)

If you use Azure PowerShell  module to manage your Azure environment, it is recommended to update to the latest available version 11.4.0 to take advantage of a new sensitive information – such as secret – leak protection. x64: https://github.com/Azure/azure-powershell/releases/download/v11.4.0-March2024/Az-Cmdlets-11.4.0.38336-x64.msi x86: https://github.com/Azure/azure-powershell/releases/download/v11.4.0-March2024/Az-Cmdlets-11.4.0.38336-x86.msi PowerShell command: Update-Module -Name Az This new “protect secrets” feature helps protecting against sensitive

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Azure – You can now configure automatic shutdown with the Azure mobile application

If you are using Microsoft Azure, you probably already know you can perform some management operations while on the go with the Azure mobile application. iOS https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/microsoft-azure/id1219013620?ls=1&mt=8 Android https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.microsoft.azure If you are running virtual machines in Azure, running cost management is an important part and you already know that you can automatically shutdown virtual machines

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Azure – Business Continuity Center is available in preview

When you have a large Azure environment, it is sometime not easy to quickly identified if your resources are properly protected to allow business continuity in case of an issue arise. Well, good news as it is now becoming easier to have bird eyes on your business continuity capability on Azure: Business Continuity Center (ABC).

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Azure – New free SQL Managed Instance SKU available in preview

As you probably already know, Azure provides a serverless SQL service called SQL Managed Instance. Well, there is a good news as you can now enjoy a new SKU for free. Before you start jumping around, you need to know the following limitations/restrictions for the free SQL Managed Instance offer: Capacity 1 year 720 vCore

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