As you know, Azure provides a ping test to evaluate the availability of your endpoints through the use of Application Insights. Well, the ping test is being upgraded and now called standard test and now provides ability to define the type of HTTP request (Get, Put, Head…) and get SSL health (aka expiration) notification. The
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If you are using Windows Virtual Desktop (aka WVD, aka Azure Virtual Desktop, aka AVD) you know you need to use a specific remote desktop client. The AVD Remote Desktop client is being updated frequently to introduce new capabilities and fixes. Well, starting July 27th 2021, Microsoft is enforcing a minimum remote desktop client. You
As you know, you can manage your Azure resources using either the web portal (https://portal.azure.com) or command line tools (Azure PowerShell or Azure Cli). Well, regarding Azure PowerShell you also know the PowerShell modules have been evolving continuously. If you are still using the ‘old’ AzureRM modules (introduced in 2015 and since then been replaced
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As you know you can add extensions (small applications that provide post-deployment configuration and automation tasks) to your virtual machine running on Azure. Well, you can now get these extensions automatically upgrade when there is a new version. This is a preview capability which means there is no SLA associated with it in case of
As you know you should protect your resources running on Azure connected to a virtual network (vNet) using Network Security Group (NSG). Well, it now easier to manage well-known communication ports (or services) to allow/disallow traffic. When editing inbound or outbound rule to add new communication port you no longer have to manually enter the
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If you are using Azure Database for MySQL server, you can now stop the server. This can be useful for dev/test environment where it is not required to get it running 24/7. When the server is in stopped state, the associated compute cost is no longer billed but the storage is. The MySQL server can
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As you know Azure Security Center and Secure Score are your one-stop shop regarding your security posture on Azure; helping you staying secure while running your workloads on Azure. Well, you can now view your Secure Score at the management group level and not only the subscription level. You can turn on the Group by
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As you know, you can use access keys to access Azure Storage Account content (Blob, Table, File…). While this is helpful this also implies some security risk when using public endpoints. Well, good news, you can now disable account access keys on storage account to use Azure AD authentication instead. IMPORTANT if you disable account
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You may now know Azure Sentinel, the cloud native SIEM (Security Information and Event Management) solution from Microsoft. Well, if you are using and managing Azure Sentinel you will be happy to know that a PowerShell module is now available to manage Azure Sentinel, in addition of the Azure portal. Before you deploy this module,
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As we know, mistakes happen even if there is safeguard in place (like locking deletion activities at the resource group or the resource level; this should be a best practice, especially on any production resource groups or resources). You can now recover deleted storage account. To be able to recover a deleted storage account, you
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