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Azure–The latest version – 4 – of Azure Backup Server is available

  As you probably know, you can backup your on-premises workloads to Azure using Azure Backup Server (MABS).   Well, the latest version – 4 – of MABS is now available and provides quite a few of enhancements: Support for Windows Server 2022: you can now use Windows Server 2022 to install MABS Support for

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Azure – You can request to join the private preview for enabling Trusted Launch on existing virtual machines

  As you may know, since October 2021, you can enable Trusted Launch capabilities (TPM, Secure Boot) when creating virtual machines on Azure (see https://t.co/94CVmga284).   Well, you can now request to join the private preview to enable Trusted Launch on existing virtual machines by filling this form https://forms.office.com/pages/responsepage.aspx?id=v4j5cvGGr0GRqy180BHbR2RiF4tSllVBmoqo337yG5lUMFBLVjVNVkdGUUxQRzRMUElKM0RaV1hLVi4u.   You will have to provide

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Azure – Migrate your Public Peering to Microsoft Peering by March 2024

Since 2018, no new ExpressRoute Public Peering has been allowed. Well, no it’s time for existing Public Peering to disappear for good and you have to migrate your existing ones to Microsoft Peering. To do so just follow the documentation available here (quite simple process to be honest) https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/expressroute/how-to-move-peering/

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Azure – New FQDN tags for use with Azure Firewall for Office 365 services

If you use Azure Firewall to protect your resources running on Azure, you will be glad that you can now use new FQDN tags to easily manage access to Office 365 services. To do so, just edit or create your firewall rules, select the Destination as Service Tags and search for Office 365   This

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Azure – You can duplicate your alert rules

You know that you can monitor your workloads running on Azure using Azure Monitor and Azure Alerts. Until now, if you had to reuse a similar alert configuration/settings, you had to manually recreate it from scratch, leading to potential mistake. Well, good news as now you can duplicate existing alert rules, making it easier and

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Azure Virtual Desktop – You can now enable watermarking (preview)

With increasing use of Azure Virtual Desktop, it is more and more important to ensure sensitive information are protected. A first level of protection has been added with the screen capture protection (see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-desktop/screen-capture-protection/). Today a new screen capture protection capability is being made available in preview: watermarking When enabled, QR code watermarks appear as

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Azure – You can now do virtual machine in-place upgrade

As Windows administrator, you know the importance of keeping up with Windows server versions to stay supported and receive updates. To do so, you usually have 2 options to upgrade your Windows server version: in-place upgrade deploy a new virtual machine running the targeted version and then migrate your workloads and data on this new

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Azure – You can now inherit tags for cost management

When working with cloud environments, identification of deployed resources is important to be able understand the need of the resources (environment, owner, application…). These is achieved by using tags. While you can enforce the use of tags in Azure using an Azure policy, it requires some administration tasks and does not automatically inherit from the

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