A new Azure service, called Update Staging Lab, is currently going under private preview (see below to register) to help ISV (and potentially you too) to validate application against pre-released builds of Windows security updates. We all know, in the past, there has been quite few drama with applications after getting some Windows Updates being […]
You may already know Azure AD Domain Services, an Azure service which extends your on-premises directory service (AD DS) to a managed domain service, allowing you to deliver AD DS domain join, group policies, LDAP and/or Kerberos/NTLM authentication capabilities within your Azure environment without the need to deploy domain controllers virtual machine on Azure (to
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By now you may know that Azure Migrate is the one-stop shop for your on-premises assessment readiness and migration to Azure, for both virtual machines (running on VMWare and/or Hyper-V) and physicals servers. Well, Azure Migrate has been improved again to allow installed application discovery during the server assessment (for now in preview for VMWare).
You may already know what is Azure Log Analytics – if not, this is the solution to monitor the performance and health your resources (both on Azure and on-premises). Well, the Azure Log Analytics cost and pricing tier management has been updated and is now more comprehensive. To start using this is new comprehensive management
As you already know, you can connect to your Azure virtual networks (VNets) from your devices using either Site to Site (S2S) VPN and/or Point to Site (P2S) VPN. The Point to Site VPN connection use to require self-signed certificate for the client to connect to Azure. Well, good news, you can now use your
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As you may know, Azure Security Center (ASC) is your own stop shop for everything related to the security of your Azure infrastructure (including when running in hybrid with your on-premises servers onboarded onto Azure). Microsoft is providing default built-in rules to help you secure your resources as per the latest recommendations. Off course you
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In case you are using Azure Application Insights to monitor the performance and availability of your applications (mobile or web application), you must know that the public IP addresses used by the Live Metrics Stream feature (used to live probe your application) have changed. If you use firewall outbound restriction you must update your firewall
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Azure Recovery Services is keeping up with the latest release of Microsoft SQL, SQL Server 2019, as it now supports backing up SQL Server 2019 data running on virtual machine. This also includes support for SQL Server 2019 running on Windows Server 2019. In addition of this support, you also now restore SQL backup as
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Compliance, audit and tracking is one of the major requirement and feature on Azure services. With that in mind a new audit capability is being currently in preview for Azure Blog Storage: Change Feed. With Change Feed support for Azure Blog Storage you will get a continuous read-only logging on all actions executed on a
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You may already know Azure Migrate, the one stop shop to help you assessing and migrating your on-premises virtual machines/workloads to Azure services. Well, good news, Azure Migrate is now able to provide assessment for physical servers and VDI too, in addition of the Hyper-V or VMWare virtual machines. If you are starting with Azure
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