Deploy Resources to Azure With Azure Resource Manager (ARM) https://ift.tt/2SOZJSi In this blog post, I will show you how to deploy resources to Azure Resource Manager (ARM) and get into the learning of Infrastructure as a code. In my previous blog post, I explained why you should start using ARM, but in a nutshell, ARM […]
Modern Authentication Support comes to Microsoft Remote Connectivity Analyzer https://ift.tt/2SwxbwO Since December last year, we’ve been making a lot of investment into the Microsoft Remote Connectivity Analyzer site. If you’ve used the website in the past couple of months, you probably saw the website has had a face lift with a modern UI for all […]
Fun with Veeam’s Active Directory Explorer’s LDAP Filter https://ift.tt/2ZsGl1h Being serious about Disaster Recovery means taking into account events like 9/11. Being serious about Active Directory means being serious about Backup and Restore. But… All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. That’s why sometimes you need to have a little fun. For […]
HOWTO: Attach a previously sync’ed Azure AD Tenant to a new AD Forest https://ift.tt/3mtAoLf This week, I was contacted by an organization who were in the process of starting anew with Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS). The old Active Directory forest was too … old, basically. It showed signs of problems around attribute integrity, […]
Announcing new lower pricing for Azure Files premium tier https://ift.tt/30Fyxdc As part of our commitment to delivering the best possible value for our Azure Files customers, we are announcing a price reduction on the Azure Files premium tier by 33%. The new pricing is effective October 1st and applies to all the regions and all the redundancy […]
Best practices for defending Azure Virtual Machines https://ift.tt/3jGLr1R One of the things that our Detection and Response Team (DART) and Customer Service and Support (CSS) security teams see frequently during investigation of customer incidents are attacks on virtual machines from the internet. This is one area in the cloud security shared responsibility model where customer […]
True Bitlocker one-time key with Intune https://ift.tt/3iDfF4Q Intune and Windows 10 supports automatic key rollover when a key has been used to unlock or recover a drive. This means the key in Azure AD will be automatically replaced with a new key after a successful recovery key usage. This is driven by the client and […]
Azure File Sync Replace Existing Server Endpoint https://ift.tt/3ia955D Introduction This is Andrew Coughlin and I am a Customer Engineer at Microsoft focusing on Azure IaaS. In this blog I will focus on how to add an additional server to an Azure File Sync and how to remove the old server. This process should be followed […]
Azure Files premium tier is now available in more regions with LRS, ZRS, and NFS support https://ift.tt/3lsEz8X Azure Files premium tier storage offers highly-performant, highly available file services, that is built on solid-state drives (SSD). Premium tier is optimized to deliver consistent performance for IO-intensive workloads that require high-throughput and low latency. Since the release […]
Microsoft Exchange 2010 End of Support & Patching Study https://ift.tt/3kUeShl Today’s topic is Exchange 2010, which reaches end of support (EoS) on Oct. 13, 2020, as well as a survey of other versions of Exchange and how well they are being kept up-to-date. During our work with Project Sonar, we consistently see the use of […]
