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, […]
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 […]
Microsoft specifies patching of the Netlogon vulnerability (CVE-2020-1472) https://ift.tt/2HEuqax [German]Microsoft has revised and clarified its guidance on how to close the Netlogon vulnerability in Windows Server installations that act as domain controllers. This is in response to feedback from users who were confused by previous support posts. The vulnerability, updates and uncertainties I had reported […]
Custom Route Tables in Azure Virtual WAN are live! https://ift.tt/2EBJrsJ Introduction Last week, around August 26-27th 2020 Custom Route Tables in Azure Virtual WAN lit up in my Azure Tenants. Awesome news. Normally this should have happened the week of the 3d of August 2020. However, some delay happened. Now it is here is has […]
Microsoft Zero Trust deployment guide for your applications https://ift.tt/2QIxhAN Introduction More likely than not, your organization is in the middle of a digital transformation characterized by increased adoption of cloud apps and increased demand for mobility. In the age of remote work, users expect to be able to connect to any resource, on any device, from anywhere in the world. IT admins, […]
How do I implement a Zero Trust security model for my Microsoft remote workforce? https://ift.tt/34oKQNI Digital empathy should guide your Zero Trust implementation Zero Trust has always been key to maintaining business continuity. And now, it’s become even more important during the COVID-19 pandemic to helping enable the largest remote workforce in history. While organizations […]
Azure AD Connect version 1.5.45.0 is a bug fix release https://ift.tt/2XocCFH Last week, a new version of Azure AD Connect was released: version 1.5.45.0. This version is a bug fix release. After every fresh major release of Azure AD Connect by Microsoft, several smaller hotfix releases update the functionality to prevent issues where administrators are […]
Security baseline (FINAL): Windows 10 and Windows Server, version 2004 https://ift.tt/3kiTjHV We are pleased to announce the final release of the security configuration baseline settings for Windows 10 and Windows Server version 2004. Please download the content from the Microsoft Security Compliance Toolkit, test the recommended configurations, and customize and implement as appropriate. If […]
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