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In this series, Microsoft identity team members share their reasons for loving passwordless authentication (and why you should too!). Today, Alex Weinert continues this series. In previous blogs in this series, we shared how passwords lead to breaches, lost productivity ... continue reading

The PowerShell Team plans engineering work per semester (6 months at a time). However, PowerShell itself follows the .NET schedule of release every year. In this blog post, we’ll cover the year long plan for PowerShell 7.2 as well as ... continue reading

Hello folks, I’ve had a few conversations lately with IT pros and operations folks that made me think that there may be a disconnect or some confusion about the role of Azure blueprints and ARM templates specs. There were comments ... continue reading

We’re now a year into our new reality, and two trends stand out. First, people need even more flexibility as we work, learn, and collaborate in a world without perimeters. And second, bad actors are getting even more sophisticated. They’re ... continue reading

A cursory look at recent headlines reveals two clear trends. First, organizations around the world are embracing digital transformation using technologies across cloud and edge computing to better serve their customers and thrive in fast-paced environments. Second, attackers are constantly ... continue reading

If there’s one thing the dawning of 2021 has shown, it’s that security isn’t getting any easier. Recent high-profile breach activity has underscored the growing sophistication of today’s threat actors and the complexity of managing business risk in an increasingly ... continue reading

For all of us in security, the last twelve months have been an incredible series of challenges—from balancing remote work with family priorities, to helping build resilient businesses, and protecting against the latest attacks. 2020 showed us that while we ... continue reading

The past year has led to an evolution in not only how we think about work, but more importantly, where work gets done. Arguably, gone are the days that your organization’s data is limited to the protected confines of your ... continue reading

We’re one day away from the kick off of Microsoft Ignite digital experience taking place March 2nd-4th starting at 8am PST. I thought it would be a good idea to share some special insights on how to get the most ... continue reading

In this series, Microsoft identity team members share their reasons for loving passwordless authentication (and why you should too!). Today, Maria Puertas Calvo, data scientist for Microsoft Identity, continues the series. Hi! I am honored to be among such a ... continue reading

Yun Jung Choi shows Scott Hanselman how to use AKS Diagnostics and AKS Periscope to troubleshoot issues on your AKS cluster. Use AKS Diagnostics to identify problems and get actionable recommendations on how to resolve AKS cluster issues. Run AKS ... continue reading

Do you want to scale your workloads on Kubernetes without having to worry about the details? Do you want to run Azure Functions anywhere and easily scale it yourself? Tom Kerkhove shows Scott Hanselman how Kubernetes Event-Driven Autoscaling (KEDA) makes ... continue reading

Tested with Windows 10 1609 up to 20H2 Hey community, this is Helmut Wagensonner, a Customer Engineer for Windows Client platform. Today I show you a way to make file type associations more enterprise ready. I heard many of my ... continue reading

Hi everyone, we have added a new video tutorial to the Advanced OSD series. This tutorial highlights the ability to bootstrap a task sequence during client installation. This was introduced in ConfigMgr current branch 2002 and refined in ConfigMgr current ... continue reading

In this series, Microsoft identity team members share their reasons for loving passwordless authentication (and why you should too!). Today, Tarek Dawoud, principal program manager, continues this series. Since we announced our Public Preview of passwordless credential management, we have ... continue reading

We are excited to announce that updates to our PowerShell extension and PowerShell Preview extension are now available on the Visual Studio Code marketplace. This blog will explain what is new in these releases as well as what you can expect from the extension in ... continue reading

Hello! In today’s “Voice of the Partner” blog, Prakash Narayanamoorthy, Principal Microsoft Security Architect for Wipro, explains how his company transformed their identity and access management (IAM) offer while delivering an elevated level of governance and secure access across external ... continue reading

A key aspect of the Solorigate attack is the supply chain compromise that allowed the attacker to modify binaries in SolarWinds’ Orion product. These modified binaries were distributed via previously legitimate update channels and allowed the attacker to remotely perform ... continue reading

Migrating to the cloud is an evolution, and it's important to think differently about how you consume resources. As you're building a business case in your organization, it's critical to step back and understand the cloud's key constructs and transform ... continue reading

More customers than ever are shopping from home in the current health environment, and companies are responding by rapidly deploying cloud-based e-commerce solutions. Azure is helping these companies meet their customers' needs with robust, customizable, and scalable e-commerce solutions that ... continue reading

In part two of this blog series on aligning security with business objectives and risk, we explored the importance of thinking and acting holistically, using the example of human-operated ransomware, which threatens every organization in every industry. As we exited ... continue reading

With digital engagement for customers and citizens surging over the past year, resilience and security for our Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) B2C customers has been top of mind. I am excited to announce that starting May 25, we will ... continue reading

Intro One of the common ask I get from customers is to alert on new resources when they are created. I typically hesitate to alert every time a single resource is created because I think the better approach is to ... continue reading

Whether you’re a new student, thriving startup, or the largest enterprise, you have financial constraints, and you need to know what you’re spending, where, and how to plan for the future. Nobody wants a surprise when it comes to the ... continue reading

There are different ways to manage your Azure resources depending on your specific needs. With automation tasks, Azure offers a simple way to manage a specific resource or resource group using automation task templates. These templates depend on the Azure ... continue reading

Enterprises are increasingly defined by the applications they use and build to run their core business processes, including the customer experiences they provide. Across all sectors, we see how companies like challenger banks, online healthcare providers, e-commerce providers, and other ... continue reading

Hello! ServiceNow was recently named one of our most used apps for the third year in a row, is a new Microsoft Viva (Employee Experience Platform) launch partner, and has been building deep integrations to benefit our joint customers like ... continue reading

Our customers have been wanting some more basic, getting started material on taking their on prem applications and moving them to the cloud. This video series does just that. Starting with a simple on prem solution, lifting and shifting and ... continue reading

As the Azure engineering team continues to deliver a rapid pace of innovation for defense customers, we’re also continuing to support Department of Defense (DoD) customers and partners in delivering new capabilities to serve mission needs. In many cases, accelerating ... continue reading

In this series, Microsoft identity team members share their reasons for loving passwordless authentication (and why you should too!). In this post, Sue Bohn continues the series by sharing another benefit of passwordless. I love passwordless because of how much ... continue reading