By now you should know Azure Secure Score (ASS), the Azure Security feature which helps you review the security recommendations and prioritize them for you. Well, Azure Secure Score has been simplified and is now in preview. To start using this new and simplified Azure Secure Score, logon to your Azure portal (https://portal.azure.com/) and reach
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As you know, sustainability and carbon footprint are now an important subject and companies are now looking to reduce it. That said, how can you reduce your carbon footprint if you don’t even know from where you are starting Well, Microsoft is now providing a PowerBI dashboard to help you get details about the carbon
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When you want to analyse performance of your Azure resources when using metrics you may also want to do a comparison with other resources. This is now possible (currently in preview for a limited set of Azure resource type). To start using the multi-resource selection, you need to logon to your Azure portal (https://portal.azure.com/) and
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You may already know the Azure service called Azure Lab Services which allows you to quickly create development/test environment in a self-service mode for your developers and/or testers. This service has been updated to now allowing you to automatically shutdown virtual machines when user disconnects from the remote desktop session. To enable this new feature,
Good news for those working with Azure Storage Account, support for NFS (Network File System) v3 and v4 have been added to Azure Storage Account. That said, there is currently a requirement to first register your subscription as this is currently in preview; registration form is available at https://aka.ms/AzureNFSPreview For your information: NFS v3 is
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This is not a major new capability but still interesting as it gives you more control, you can now define the name of the resource group being used by Azure Recovery Services to store the instant recovery point. Previously, the resource group was hardcoded and looked like AzureBackupRG_<geographical location>_<number>. You can still let Azure use
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As there is more use of Azure AD application integration (either Enterprise Applications or Azure AD App Proxy), it is becoming more complicated for end-users to find their most important applications for their work. Well, good news, Azure AD Administrators can now create a ‘workspace’ grouping all related applications for their job or role. First
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As you may already know, Azure comes with a set of policies to help you meet compliance and security standards (ISO 27001, SOC, PCI DSS…) and requirements. As you should have been already using it (and if not this is a good day to start ), you have to be aware that the Azure CIS
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As announced few weeks ago at the Ignite 2019 Conference, Microsoft has been working to bring Azure capabilities back to on-premises (see https://t.co/Ih1SutrNVM). Well, just in case you are already evaluating this new capability with the onboarding process of on-premises servers and if you are using SCCM and/or WSUS to manage your servers updates deployment,
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You may remember that about a year ago, Microsoft has introduced the capability to logon with your Azure AD credentials on Linux virtual machine running on Azure. Well, good news, this possibility is now available in preview for Windows virtual machine too – to be more precise, only on Windows 2019 or Windows 10 1809
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