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With all the changes in Azure, it is sometimes hard to keep track, that why I thought I will give you a quick update on two exiting things I learned this week. I will show you that Azure Cloud Shell ... continue reading

Happy Friday everyone! Brandon Wilson here coming out of the woodwork to point out a nice little nugget you should know on Azure Security Center CSV reports going GA, written by Bruno Gabrielli, and posted over on our sister TechCommunity/blog, ... continue reading

Hi everyone, James Kehr here with a guest post. One of the SMB cases we get regularly at Microsoft Support is, “my pen test says you allow Null sessions!” Followed by a string of CVE numbers; like, CVE-1999-0519 and CVE-1999-0520 ... continue reading

Elastic Jobs are currently in public preview. The feature is ready and we are preparing to make it officially generally available. No whitelisting or extra steps are required to get started. In my previous post, I explained what Elastic Jobs ... continue reading

Today on the Official Microsoft Blog, Ann Johnson, Corporate Vice President of the Cybersecurity Solutions Group, shared how Microsoft is helping turn the tide in cybersecurity by putting artificial intelligence (AI) in the hands of defenders. She announced the general ... continue reading

When organizations embark on moving their IT to the cloud there are a lot of things to consider, decide upon, learn about, and implement. I often point people in the direction of the Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework which is a ... continue reading

Microsoft Insider Risk Management and Communication Compliance in Microsoft 365—now generally available—help organizations address internal risks, such as IP theft or code of conduct policy violations. The new Microsoft Insider Risk Management solution helps to quickly identify, detect, and act ... continue reading

SecOps teams are increasingly challenged to protect assets across distributed environments, analyze the growing volume of security data, and prioritize response to real threats. As a cloud-native SIEM solution (security information and event management), Azure Sentinel uses artificial intelligence (AI) ... continue reading

Cybercrime is as much a people problem as it is a technology problem. To respond effectively, the defender community must harness machine learning to compliment the strengths of people. This is the philosophy that undergirds Azure Sentinel. Azure Sentinel is ... continue reading

Attackers will cross multiple domains like email, identity, endpoints, and applications to find the point of least resistance. Today’s defense solutions have been designed to protect, detect, and block threats for each domain separately, allowing attackers to exploit the seams ... continue reading

We announced the general availability of Azure Security Center for IoT in July 2019. Since then, we have seen a lot of interest from both our customers and partners. Our team has been working on enhancing the capabilities we offer ... continue reading

System Center Operations Manager 2019 also popularly known as SCOM, is witnessing an exponential adoption. Customers who are on the older versions are upgrading to the latest one in order to keep their tech stack updated and to be on ... continue reading

It's that time of the year when the Microsoft Azure Data engineering team is getting ready to participate at SQL Bits 2020. Excitement for this year's show is everywhere, as SQL Bits provides us with a unique opportunity to learn, ... continue reading

The way we work is evolving—technology enables more effective employees by helping them to be productive where and when they choose. Businesses have also been enjoying the productivity benefits of an always-on and always-connected workforce. While new business applications and ... continue reading

Today I am want to share a new video, where I had the chance to speak with Vinicius Apolinario about why you as an IT Pro should care about Windows containers and how to get started. We are going through ... continue reading

Hi there, my Name is Sebastian Gernert and I am Escalation Engineer for App-V, at end of 2019 we get a few reports by customers that Application Publishing is failing when using a User Configuration File applied to these Packages ... continue reading

Elastic Jobs is a feature of Azure SQL Database that lets you run a set of T-SQL scripts against a collection of servers or databases, as a one-time job, in an ad-hoc manner, or according to a pre-defined schedule. This ... continue reading

Most people don’t think about electricity. If the internet works, their food is refrigerated, and their debit card is approved, why should they? Its ubiquity and reliability render it invisible—a bit of magic that powers much of modern life. That ... continue reading

In the past - "Tuesdays with Corey" was a light hearted take on cool Azure technologies that were brought to you by Corey Sanders - VP of Azure Compute. A while back - Corey took on a new role as ... continue reading

Hello Everyone! I´m Stefan Röll, Premier Field Engineer (PFE) at Microsoft Germany for Microsoft Endpoint Manager. In this Blog Post I´d like to demonstrate how easy it is to get Microsoft Connected Cache and Delivery Optimization configured in your Configuration ... continue reading

Users of the Host Guardian Service (HGS) for shielded VMs or SQL Server Always Encrypted with Secure Enclaves should be aware that the February 2020 Security Update (KB4524244) for Windows 10 and Windows Server may cause your guarded hosts or ... continue reading

Shantanu Srivastava joins Scott Hanselman to show how you can manage platform updates, that don't require a reboot, using Maintenance Control. Azure frequently updates its infrastructure to improve reliability, performance, security or launch new features. Most updates are transparent to ... continue reading

Narayan Anamalai joins Donovan Brown to introduce Azure Private Link. In this episode, Narayan demonstrates how you can secure Azure PaaS resources and your Azure network using Private Link, and provide protection against data exfiltration.[0:08:45] - DemoAzure Private Link overviewAzure ... continue reading

You may have heard that identity is the “new” perimeter. Indeed, with the proliferation of phishing attacks over the past few years, one of the best ways to secure data is to ensure that identity—the primary way we access data—can ... continue reading

Today, we have another interesting story for the Voice of the Customer blog series. Tony Miller and Jon Sider of Mattress Firm deployed Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) to create a secure authentication experience for employees, including their Firstline Workforce ... continue reading

Hi all! Zoheb Shaikh here again, and this time I will be sharing an interesting script to alert on Expiring certificates. A special thank you goes out to Eddy Ng Seng Eu for help in development of this Script. Eddy ... continue reading

The Azure command-line interface (Azure CLI) is a great way to create and manage Azure resources. Azure CLI is available on Windows, macOS, and Linux, and it supports managing resources across Azure services and gets you working quickly with Azure, ... continue reading

SQL Server customers migrating their databases to the cloud have multiple choices for their cloud destination. To thoroughly assess which cloud is best for SQL Server workloads, two key factors to consider are: Innovations that the cloud provider can uniquely ... continue reading

Hello everyone, @Steve Rachui principal field engineer specializing in endpoint management technologies has released a new video tutorial focused on the BitLocker integration added in Configuration Manager version 1910. His discussion and demonstrations walk through the flow of BitLocker policy ... continue reading

When I did my first North American Electric Reliability Corporation—Critical Infrastructure Protection (NERC CIP) compliance project it was 2009. NERC CIP was at version 3. It was the first mandatory cybersecurity standard that the utility I was working for had ... continue reading