Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) is making things easier to collaborate with external users (guest) by supporting email one-time password. This new capability (in preview) allows external users (guests) to sign in and authenticate against your Azure AD using a one time password (OTP) send by email when they do not have already a Microsoft […]
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Following the general release of the new Azure PowerShell module (Az) (see https://t.co/xrzdIDmG7M), Microsoft has made MSI packages available to allow you deploying this new module (as it used to be for the previous Azure PowerShell module) which will be helpful if you use software deployment system like SCCM. You can get the MSI package
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Azure Backup has been updated to provide new capabilities: Azure Backup now supports backing up NTFS ACL’s set on Azure Files (see https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/storage/files/storage-files-active-directory-overview to know more about). This means when you restore Azure Files, the NTFS permissions will be also restored. This capability is currently in preview. PowerShell can now be used to run backup
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You may already know that you can use Azure Data Box to migrate on-premises workloads to Azure (from backups to remote/branch office data). If you need to know more about Azure Data Box you can go there https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/databox/data-box-overview This offer has been in preview for the past few month and is now in GA (General
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If you use Azure Application Proxy to publish internal web applications, you need to ensure the server(s) running the Azure App Proxy connector has/have TLS 1.2 enabled. By January 31st, 2019, if this/these server(s) do not have TLS 1.2 enabled you may experience service disruption as the older TLS version (1.0 and 1.1) will be
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Following the announcement of Azure Backup for SQL Server on Azure VM (see https://azure.microsoft.com/en-in/blog/azure-backup-for-sql-server-on-azure-vm-public-preview/) a new backup capability has been added. As you know, when a new SQL database is being added onto your Azure SQL VM instance you have to rediscover the database and then configure the protection for this new database. Now, with
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Next time you are logging on to your Azure administration portal (https://portal.azure.com) you may be a little bit surprised as it will not display your usual dashboard but a new home page. Don’t be worry it will offer you to select which ‘home page’ you want to set: either the new home or your dashboard.
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As announced in August 2018, a new PowerShell module to manage Azure resources called Az has been in development. It reached the general availability state. To install it, open a PowerShell prompt (as usual using the Run As Administrator) and run the command Install-Module -Name Az -Repository PSGallery –Force NOTE will you can have both
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Microsoft Azure Backup Server (MABS) v3 now support SQL 2017 workloads and can be installed on Windows Server 2019. In addition MABS v3 introduces support for TLS 1.2 and support for VMware VM backup (vCenter and ESXi 6.5 and auto-protection when new VMWare VM’s are added to a protected folder) You can get here https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/backup/backup-azure-microsoft-azure-backup#software-package
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Previously when you had to restore an Azure Virtual Machine you had to fully restore the VM by creating a new VM. Now you can restore the VM by replacing it by overwriting the existing/being restored one. Off course to be able to do this you need to have a recovery vault in place and
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