Goodbye, Exchange 2010 (And advice moving forward) https://ift.tt/2SR6xyX The end of an era. Exchange 2010 is End of Life today–no more security updates, no more extended support. I know there are quite a few servers left out there in the world, but many of them are not even in use (or they were merely in […]
Microsoft Azure Backup Center Overview https://ift.tt/3nQaoKG During Microsoft Ignite 2020, Microsoft revealed Backup Center, which is a single pane of glass to to configure a single or multiple Azure Backup vaults. Let’s imagine a huge infrastructure deployed in Microsoft Azure and the backup that relies on Azure Backup. This infrastructure is running in several Azure regions […]
CVE-2020-1472: Advanced Persistent Threat Actors Use Zerologon Vulnerability In Exploit Chain with Unpatched Vulnerabilities https://ift.tt/3jSjUed U.S. Government agencies issue joint cybersecurity advisory cautioning that advanced threat groups are chaining vulnerabilities together to gain entry into government networks and elevate privileges. Background On October 9, the Cybersecurity Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the Federal Bureau of […]
Trickbot disrupted – Microsoft Security https://ift.tt/3lBBUcZ As announced today, Microsoft took action against the Trickbot botnet, disrupting one of the world’s most persistent malware operations. Microsoft worked with telecommunications providers around the world to disrupt key Trickbot infrastructure. As a result, operators will no longer be able to use this infrastructure to distribute the Trickbot […]
Top 10 Best Practices for Azure Security https://ift.tt/2GYBj66 Our Azure products and services come with comprehensive security features and configuration settings. They are mostly customizable (to a point), so you can define and implement a security posture that reflects the need of your organization. But adopting & maintaining a good security posture goes far beyond […]
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 […]
