As you know you have 3 different access tiers available for storage account – hot, cool, archive – you have to define based on the access type (frequency) to the data stored in storage account. Well, a fourth new one is now available in preview: Cold. NOTE during the preview this new tier […]
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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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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
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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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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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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If you use Azure Automation account to automate activities, actions or process, you know that it (used to) use RunAs account for authentication. Well, on September 30, 2023, the RunAs capability will be retired and replaced by Managed Identity (know more about managed identity https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/managed-identities-azure-resources/overview/). If you don’t act before September 30, your runbooks will
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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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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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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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