As you may know, Microsoft has released a solution allowing you to remotely connect with RDP or SSH to your virtual machines running on Azure without being obliged to have a public IP (and corresponding ports opened) called Azure Bastion (see https://t.co/UBOCpnMD2k) Well, until know, if you had multiple Vnets, you had to deploy Bastion
Azure – You can now use Bastion with peered virtual network (preview) Read More »
As you know, you can setup a Site-to-Site VPN between your on-premises infrastructure and Azure. This VPN connectivity involves the creation of a Local Network Gateway (LNG). Until now, you add to configure a public IP for your LNG. Well, good news you can now use a Fully Qualified Domain Name (FQDN) instead of the
Azure – You can now use FQDN name to define your Local Network Gateway Read More »
As you know, Key Vault lets you save secrets, certificates or keys in a secure way to then allows you to use it either with automation or simply as a ‘user vault’. You also know that access to the Key Vault is managed by assigning access policies, defining who can access and do what. Well,
Azure – You can now use RBAC to manage access to Key Vault (preview) Read More »
As you know, Azure Security Center (ASC) is your one stop shop helping you maintain and improve your secure posture in Azure (including your on-premises workloads too if onboarded). As you also know, ASC provides a recommendation (and report) for ensuring your virtual machines have an endpoint protection solution installed and healthy. This recommendation is
Azure – You can now customize the endpoint protection recommendation in ASC Read More »
You may already know that Azure SQL has a feature called Data Discovery and Classification which helps you to identify if sensitive information are saved in your databases (you can have more details hare https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-sql/database/data-discovery-and-classification-overview). Previously this Data Discovery and Classification was only available as part of the Azure SQL Advanced Data Security (now called
As you know, IT administration has a lot of every day management tasks. Well, if you are running your workloads in Azure you can now reduce these day-to-day tasks by using Azure Automanage: a new capability for your virtual machines management tasks on Azure. Azure Automanage will automatically implements VM management best practices as defined
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As you know, you have the capability to backup your workloads (either from on-premises or Azure) to an Azure Recovery Vaults. Well, as you may have multiple backup vaults (or you are a CSP managing Azure services for your customers), it may be difficult to easily manage backup tasks and reports. Good news, a new
Azure – You can now centrally manage your backups with Backup Center (preview) Read More »
As you know, you have multiple ways to manage your Azure environment; through the portal (https://portal.azure.com), Cloud Shell (https://shell.azure.com/), Azure Cli, PowerShell modules… Talking about the PowerShell module, you are probably aware that the AzureRM PowerShell modules are outdated (but still supported – for now) and have been replaced by the Az PowerShell modules. That
Azure – Migrate your AzureRM scripts to Az PowerShell Read More »
As you know, Azure Security Center (ASC) is your one stop shop to get an overview of your Azure security posture and custom recommendations based on your Azure environment. Well, while this quite an important capability, there are some limitations, such as not being able to be selective on which resource(s) a recommendation should apply.
Azure – You can now create exception for Azure Security Center recommendations Read More »
As you know, it is recommended to enable the virtual machine boot diagnostics to help gathering information when troubleshooting virtual machine boot issues (or to simply being able to see if the VM is booting up or has crashed with a blue screen). As you know, the boot diagnostics require the use of a storage
Azure – You can now use a managed storage account for the VM boot diagnostics Read More »
