Good new, the long awaited UEFI-based boot support for Azure virtual machine is now available in preview. The UEFI-based boot support was added to on-premises Hyper-V since Windows Server 2012 R2, quite long time ago and since then we have been waiting for this on Azure. The new generation (aka generation 2) of Azure virtual
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As you may know, Microsoft and Workday have been working pretty hard to make Workday integration with Azure Active Directory (AAD) as seamless as possible. This integration now goes one step further as you can writeback from Azure AD to Workday. This means if an attribute is updated on Azure AD, you can get the
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You can now use the Fast Shutdown capability to turn off virtual machine on Azure. This option is available by using Azure Cli (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/cli/azure/install-azure-cli?view=azure-cli-latest) with the command az vm stop –resource-group MyResourceGroup –name MyVm –skip-shutdown As always you can use either the Azure Cli on your client or use the Azure Cloud Shell
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You can now use Ephemeral OS disk in Azure Virtual Machine (Azure VM) when you are concern on the time taken to deploy at scale or reimage a virtual machine while not concerned with data (aka stateless workloads). The good point with Ephemeral OS disk is there is no storage cost associate with and it
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4 new administration roles have been available (in preview) for Azure Active Directory (AAD) B2C: B2C User Flow Administrator: allows to delegate user flows in Azure AD B2C administration B2C User Flow Attribute Administrator: allows to delegate user attributes in Azure AD B2C administration B2C IEF Keyset Administrator: allows delegation for Azure AD B2C key
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The latest version of Azure PowerShell module (Az module version 2.0) is available. IMPORTANT please note this version is a breaking change for existing Az.Compute and Az.HDInsight cmdlets (see https://github.com/Azure/azure-powershell/blob/master/documentation/migration-guides/Az.2.0.0-migration-guide.md to manage the migration). This release provides lot of new/improved/fix cmdlets, from authentication with AD FS to Websites, through Azure FrontDoor support, monitor for SQR
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By July 31st, 2019, the following legacy features in Azure Security Center (ASC) will removed and replaced in either Azure Log Analytics or Azure Sentinel: Events Search Classic Identity & Access dashboard Threat intelligence dashboard Investigation flow in security alerts Edit security configuration settings for security policies Security and audit dashboard in Log Analytics You
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As part of the identity and access control management on Azure AD, you can now use Azure AD Entitlement (also known as Azure AD Identity Governance) (in preview) to easily and automatically manage access to your groups or applications by your users, both internal (corporate) or external (guest). By using Azure AD Entitlement, you can
2 new settings have been introduced for the Session Control in Azure AD Conditional Access: Sign-in frequency: defines the time period before a user is asked to sign-in again when attempting to access a resource. This means that if the security posture of the authentication session has not changed, users will be asked to re-authenticate
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When publishing application using Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS) or other identity provider, you often use group membership as claim is a user’s token. Until now, this was not possible to use group membership as claim in Azure AD Application; now you can To start using group membership claim for your Azure AD Application,
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