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Azure – Service Map is now available in more region

You may already know Azure Service Map, an add-on component (Dependency agent)  running on top of the Azure Log Analytics agent providing you more insight for your applications/servers by analysing connectivity flows. It is also recommended to use it when using Azure Migrate to assess your on-premises servers when preparing for Azure migration. To know

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Azure – The azure portal menu has been refreshed

The Azure portal menu (aka your favourites menu) has been refreshed and now can be hidden, or flyout, giving you more space for your dashboard. The next time you logon to your Azure portal (https://portal.azure.com) you will be greaten by the below prompt asking you to choose between the flyout (Ok) or the docking mode.

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Azure – You can now have your Azure portal dashboard to auto refresh

It has been a long awaited feature for dashboards on Azure portal: getting the dashboard to auto refresh. Well, good news, the auto refresh capability for dashboard is now available in Azure portal. To start enabling this auto refresh feature, logon to your Azure portal (https://portal.azure.com), select the dashboard you want to use and check

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Azure – The Azure mobile app now simplifies multi subscription management

The Azure mobile application (iOS: https://apps.apple.com/au/app/microsoft-azure/id1219013620  – Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.microsoft.azure) has been updated and now simplifies management operations when you have multiple subscriptions. Previously, you had to switch between the subscription in your tenant to access the Azure resources in this subscription (as shown below) Now, you can enable the Multiple subscriptions mode (in preview) and

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Azure – Get your recommendations by email as soon as they are available (preview)

As you know, Azure has a feature called Azure Advisor to help you getting the most and securing your Azure resources. Well, Azure Advisor has been updated to provide you a notification feature to send an email alert as soon as you have a new recommendation. To start using it, logon to your Azure portal

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Azure – You can apply a policy to ensure the Log Analytics agent is being deployed on your virtual machine (Preview)

As you may know Azure provides a quite powerful monitoring solution for your Azure environment as well your on-premises one called Azure Log Analytics. This Log Analytics capability is also used by Azure Security Center to centralize security-related logs. The use of Azure Log Analytics requires to have a local agent (Log Analytics Agent, also

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Azure – You can trigger Azure File Sync synchronization when changes are done on Azure side

As you may already know, you can synchronize your on-premises file shares to Azure File Share using Azure File Sync. While changes made on your on-premises side are quickly synchronized to Azure File Share, this is not the same story when changes are made from Azure File Share; you have to wait the 24 hours

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Azure – You now have a centralized hub to manage all Azure SQL resources

As you know, Microsoft Azure provides you the ability to host SQL resources, from SQL database to Elastic Pools or SQL running on a virtual machine (not comprehensive). This makes it a little bit difficult to have a comprehensive view of all the Azure SQL resources you may be running as you have to switch

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Azure – The Security Center now provides ‘one click’ remediation (preview)

As you know, Azure integrates a security dashboard, called Azure Security Center (ASC), to help you have a bird view on the security state of your Azure (but not only as it also provides details from your on-premises) environment. The Azure Security Center has been updated to provide a ‘one click’ remediation (when available) when

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