Microsoft.Compute/virtualMachineScaleSets 2019-12-01 – Bicep & ARM template reference https://ift.tt/3z8s8ak Deploy VM Scale Set with LB probe and automatic repairs This template allows you to deploy a VM scale set of Linux VMs behind a load balancer with health probe configured. The scale set also has automatic instance repairs policy enabled with a grace period of […]
Recurring Active Directory Checks https://ift.tt/3qwiJFF Q: I just had an Active Directory (AD) or Active Directory Security health assessment from Microsoft, and they found some stuff I didn’t know about, or they found other items I knew to check for but forgot about. While I want to get another assessment done in another year or […]
Maintain your Azure Infrastructure with Terraform https://ift.tt/3ekHEpX Terraform is an Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tool owned by HashiCorp, which allows you to build, deploy, change, and manage infrastructure using code. It helps you define resources and infrastructure in human-readable, declarative configuration files and manages your infrastructure’s lifecycle. Code is the instruction written in a human-readable […]
Multiple Apache Vulnerabilities fixed in 2.4.52 https://ift.tt/3myVxFB The Apache project released an advisory, describing the following vulnerabilities:1) CVE-2021-44790A carefully crafted request body can cause a buffer overflow in the mod_lua multipart parser (r:parsebody() called from Lua scripts). The Apache httpd team is not aware of an exploit for the vulnerabilty though it might be possible to craft […]
Check Your SQL Server Backup Performance & Safety with sp_BlitzBackups https://ift.tt/32o9Fdu Out of all of the scripts in our free First Responder Kit, sp_BlitzBackups is probably the one you’ve used the least. Let’s talk about what comes out of it, and why you should use it more often. First, let’s define two terms: Recovery Point […]
Azure AD Connect v2.0.88.0 addresses a security issue in Microsoft.Data.OData and offers new functionality https://ift.tt/3F5NPtS Roughly three months after the release of the last Azure AD Connect version, Microsoft released a security update to Azure AD Connect v2.x. to address a Denial of Service (DoS) vulnerability. Microsoft recommends updating Azure AD Connect to v2.0.88.0 as […]
Security firm Blumira discovers major new Log4j attack vector https://ift.tt/3GVGL3k It doesn’t rain, but it pours. Previously, one assumption about the 10 out of 10 Log4j security vulnerability was that it was limited to exposed vulnerable servers. We were wrong. The security company Blumira claims to have found a new, exciting Log4j attack vector. You […]
How to Become a DevOps Engineer https://ift.tt/320XVhd With the term "DevOps" gaining popularity every day, there is increased curiosity as to how one can become a DevOps Engineer. If you are curious as to how to become a DevOps Engineer, this article goes on to detail on DevOps, the skills required for a DevOps Engineer, […]
Assigning User Licenses in Microsoft 365 (Azure AD) with PowerShell https://ift.tt/3q3chG3 Let’s take a look at how to manage user licenses (subscriptions) in Microsoft 365 (Azure AD) using PowerShell. We’ll show how to assign or remove a license, get statistics on assigned licenses, and enable automatic license assignment using Azure groups (group-based licensing). You can […]
Deploy Bicep files by using GitHub Actions https://ift.tt/3pPXK0c Recently, I did a live streaming session for the New York City Microsoft Reactor in which I took concepts from the Quickstart: Deploy Bicep files by using GitHub Actions doc and put them into action. In this session I create an Azure Kubernetes (AKS) cluster […]
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