As you know you can manage your Azure resources with different tools, PowerShell, Azure Cli, web browser or event the Azure Portal application. Well, when you use the Azure portal with your browser, you can now customized resource list view (when you add/remove or re order the columns/fields). NOTE 1 this is not available (yet?) […]
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By now, you may already know that Azure Security Center (ASC) is your one-stop shop to improve your security posture in Azure. ASC comes with different pricing, including one free but limited one. Well good news, Identity Recommendations – which were limited to paid tiers previously – are now also included with the free tier.
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As you know you can create dynamic group membership in Azure Active Directory to automatically add/remove group members (either users or devices) based on rules. Sometime you may not be totally sure about the result and it is frustrating to have to wait before being able to validate it. Well, good news, you can now
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You may already know this Azure AD feature, in preview for quite some time already, called Administrative Units (AUs). This feature allows you to create a container to store Azure resources which then can be used to delegate administrative tasks, during this preview period this can contain only users and groups and is only manageable
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As you know with Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets you can create and group identical virtual machines to deliver load balanced and highly available service; the number of virtual machine instances is automatically increased or decreased to match the demand. You may also know that the operating system of each virtual machine part of a
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As you may already know, it was possible to restore a virtual machine by creating a new VM, restoring as disk or replacing existing disks. Now the option to recover the virtual machine by replacing existing disks is now also supported for virtual machine created using custom images (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-machines/windows/capture-image-resource) This option is only available for
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By now you should already know Azure Storage Explore, client application allowing you access your storage in Azure from Windows, MacOS or Linux devices (download link https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/features/storage-explorer/). Well, Azure Explorer has got an interesting improvement which allows you to use the device code flow sign-in to connect to your Azure tenant and access your storage
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As you may already know, you can create a snapshot of a virtual machine running on Azure when using managed disks. While this is a useful capability, there was a limitation; when creating a snapshot you were creating a full snapshot, meaning the full disk was snapshotted, involving an increase in your storage cost. Well,
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Microsoft has released a new version (Windows version 10.20.18029 – Azure Extension version 1.0.18029) has been released. If you have keep the automatic update enabled, it should be automatically updated. You can also download it from the below links: x64 version https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=828603 x86 version https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=828604 It is important to note that this version adds support
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By now, you should already know the Azure Security Center (ASC), your one stop shop for security related recommendations and reports to help you improve your Azure security posture. You should also already know the Windows Admin Center, the new browser-based remote administration tools for Windows. Well, good news as both are now integrated as
