If you manage an Azure environment and have installed the Azure mobile application (Azure Companion application) you already know that you start/stop a virtual machine and have access basic metrics and details. Well, you can now also manage the network security rules applied to the virtual machine too. To do so, access one of your […]
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Earlier in September, the Azure mobile application (Azure Companion application) has been updated to introduce an initial access to Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) (see https://t.co/ayBZHVODXx). Well, the application has been updated again to provide additional capabilities to manage Azure AD. You can now: Manage your users in Azure AD with access to the user
Earlier in July 2022, Microsoft has made generally available a new compute series – Azure confidential virtual machine (DCasv5 and ECasv5) (see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/confidential-computing/overview/). Today, this Azure confidential virtual machine series is made available in preview for use with Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD). Support for confidential virtual machine is available for Windows 11 22H2 hosts; support
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If you use the Azure virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) Azure Virtual Desktop, you already know that you can monitor your AVD host pool health (insights). Well, until know if you had multiple host pools – which is the case if you have a mix of pooled and personal host – you could not have insights
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If you are running virtual machines in Azure, you already know that you can backup your virtual machine using Azure Recovery Vault. Well, until now, when you had to restore a virtual machine you could only restore it within the same subscription. This is no longer the case as you can now restore the virtual
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As you know Azure Bastion allows you to securely remotely connect to virtual machines running on Azure using either Remote Desktop (RDP) or SSH without having to open the corresponding ports to Internet. Access to the virtual machine using Bastion is performed by connecting the Azure portal using your web browser or using the native
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As you may already know, Microsoft Azure provides a Distributed Denial Of Service (DDOS) protection to protect your workloads publicly accessible on Azure (see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ddos-protection/ddos-protection-overview/). However, there is situation where you may need to have a public IP address being excluded from the DDOS protection. Well, you can now exclude public IP address from the
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As you know, you can backup your workloads (virtual machines, SQL, file shares…), either hosted in Azure or on-premises, using Azure Backup. Well, with the rise of ransomware attacks and other malicious activities, it becomes important to also protect your backups by blocking any operations which could lead to loss of recovery points. To help
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If you are working with Microsoft Azure, you know you can perform activities using either the portal, Azure PowerShell module or Azure Cli. Well, the new Azure PowerShell module (version 9.0 – released few days ago) introduces a bunch of breaking changes. You may need to review and update your scripts before
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On September 30, 2023, the Desired State Configuration (DSC) and Azure Automation extensions for Linux virtual machines will be retired. These extensions are being replaced by the new Azure Automanage (https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/governance/machine-configuration/overview/). You can plan the migration of your existing DSC and Automation extensions for LInux to Azure Automanage by checking this documentation https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/governance/machine-configuration/machine-configuration-dsc-extension-migration/
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