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Azure – You can now use Azure Virtual Machine confidential compute (preview)

If you have a need to run workloads on a virtual machine with high security and confidentiality requirements you can now use a confidential Azure Virtual Machine. This specific capability is provided thanks to AMD processors using SEV-SNP technologies. The confidential compute is available with the DC and EC virtual machine SKUs: DCasv5-series: Confidential VM […]

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Azure – You can now automatically generate new key version (auto-rotation) in Key Vault (preview)

As you should already know you can use Azure Key Vault to store secret (either keys, secret or certificates) in a secure way for use by end users and/or automation. Well, until then when you had a key going to expired you had to manually renew/update it. Not anymore, you can now configure auto-rotation to

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Azure – You can now enable Trusted Launch on Azure Virtual Machines (preview)

As you know, recent physical devices come with embedded security feature to help protect the operating system; features like TPM chipset or secure boot. Well, unfortunately until now these features were not available when running virtual machines on Azure. Good news, this now possible to turn on these security feature on Azure Virtual Machine. To

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Azure – You can now view the carbon footprint of your Azure resources

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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Azure – You can now use multi-resource selection when viewing metrics

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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Azure – You can now migrate your Azure AD Domain Services to ARM and use templates

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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Azure – Azure Advisor is providing operational excellence advices

By now, you should know Azure Advisor, the Azure feature giving you personalized advices based on your Azure implementation to help you following best practices for security and cost management. Well, now Azure Advisor is also able to give you specific advices to help you achieve Operational Excellence, helping you improving your process and workflows

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Teams – You can connect to Azure pipelines using Teams

You can now connect to your Azure Pipelines from Microsoft Teams. To do so, add the Azure Pipelines application in your Teams by accessing the Teams app catalog and search for Azure Pipelines (or Azure, or Pipelines) – you can also browse the Productivity category Then select the Teams where the Pipelines app will be

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