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Common attacks such as phishing, password spray, and credential stuffing rely on one unchanging truth: when it comes to passwords, human behavior is predictable. Armed with this predictability, bad actors still succeed most of time when attempting these types of ... continue reading

Nobody likes passwords. They’re inconvenient. They’re a prime target for attacks. Yet for years they’ve been the most important layer of security for everything in our digital lives—from email to bank accounts, shopping carts to video games. We are expected ... continue reading

In this video, I had the chance to speak with Dhananjay Mahajan @dhanMMS (Principal Program Manager at Microsoft) about how you can run Azure Arc enabled data services on Azure Stack HCI with Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS). This provides you ... continue reading

Heya folks, Ned here again. We released a change to SMB compression for Windows 11 Insider Preview build 22449 & later. We stopped being so algorithmically cute: when you request compression, we now just try to do it because you ... continue reading

Heya folks, Ned here again. Are you a current or past user of Azure File Sync? Are you considering using Azure File Sync? The Azure Files team is updating their roadmap and need your feedback! Please take a few minutes ... continue reading

Hi all, I’m Edoardo, and I work in Microsoft as a Customer Engineer, where I’m focused on Azure Monitor and Azure Infrastructure. The idea of this article was born during a delivery, when a customer asked me if it was ... continue reading

On today's episode of The DevOps Lab, April Edwards welcomes John Downs to demonstrate Bicep's many capabilities for complex Azure deployments. We'll provide learning material and guidance to support you as you upskill on Bicep. Jump to:[01:09] What is Bicep?[03:37] ... continue reading

A sparkling new Microsoft Azure environment is a beautiful thing, but before you start creating resources, what should you configure first? The Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework has detailed guidance on defining your strategy, planning for the cloud, getting ready with ... continue reading

Information has long been wielded as an instrument of national power and influence. In today’s digital world, misinformation can also be just as powerful. On a special episode of Afternoon Cyber Tea with Ann Johnson, Sandra Joyce, Executive Vice President ... continue reading

Derek Martin joins Scott Hanselman to discuss the Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) Secure Baseline reference implementation from the Azure Architecture Center. Learn what it is, how it works, and how you can use it to start your production deployment in ... continue reading

This blog post is part of the Microsoft Intelligent Security Association guest blog series. Learn more about MISA. In 2021, cyberattacks and instances of ransomware demands against companies, agencies, and institutions have dominated the headlines. These kinds of attacks are on the rise ... continue reading

Medicine. Aeronautics. Academia. When you’re a cybersecurity professional, the colleague next to you could have started in one of these industries—or just about any other you can imagine. The backgrounds of cybersecurity professionals are more diverse than those of professionals ... continue reading

A great way to learn PowerShell is to set up a scenario in the Azure portal, then try different PowerShell commands to see if you can get the same results. In this article, we'll use Azure Role Based Access control, ... continue reading

This post was co-authored by Eliran Azulai, Principal Program Manager, Azure Networking. Today, we are announcing new Azure Firewall capabilities as well as updates for August 2021. Azure Firewall supports US West 3, Jio India West, and Brazil Southeast. Auto-generated ... continue reading

As organizations continue to accelerate their cloud adoption, the need for reliable infrastructure is critical to ensure business continuity and avoid costly disruptions. Azure Disk Storage provides maximum resiliency for all workloads with an industry-leading zero percent annual failure rate ... continue reading

For over two decades, the C# programming language has allowed developers to build secure and robust applications within the .NET ecosystem.SQL Server 2019 supports the R, Python, and Java Language Extensions. These language extensions provide many benefits to developers. They ... continue reading

In this episode of Azure Unblogged, Thomas Maurer speaks with Stefano Tempesta about Azure Confidential computing. Confidential computing is the protection of data in use by performing computation in a hardware-based Trusted Execution Environment (TEE). While cloud-native workloads data is ... continue reading

On July 14, 2021, the National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence1 (NCCoE) at the National Institute of Standards and Technology2 (NIST) hosted a virtual workshop3 to seek feedback from government and industry experts on practical approaches to preventing and recovering from ... continue reading

April Edwards and Christopher Maneu are back for part two of this four-part series, Infra as Code in Action! Today, they'll be talking about secrets management! Is it really important to keep secrets? Yes! And there's more to it than ... continue reading

Inspecting five million vehicle welds every day requires the ability to check a weld’s quality every 17 milliseconds—an impossible challenge for a human. This type of quality control task is just one of many where the combined technologies of computer ... continue reading

With the release of Windows Server 2022 I was deploying a new server into a Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Manager lab that I have for certain scenarios and one of the tasks I wanted to do was create a Device Collection ... continue reading

Part 1 : Focus on Desired State Configuration in PowerShell Part 2 : Focus on Deploying with DevOps Pipeline Part 3 : Focus on Azure Automation Account Part 4 : Focus on DSC in Automation Account What will I need? ... continue reading

Onboarding partners cleanly and efficiently is now easier because of two recently introduced entitlement management features in Azure Active Directory – custom questions and attribute collection. Today, we’re highlighting how these features work and sharing how they help with processes ... continue reading

We are excited to release new features in Storage for Windows Server 2022. Our focus is to provide customers with greater resiliency, performance, and flexibility. While some of these topics have been covered elsewhere, we wanted to provide a single ... continue reading

Yuan Zheng joins Scott Hanselman to discuss and demonstrate Blob storage support for the NFS 3.0 protocol, which enables you to run your applications on a single storage platform. With no application rewrites necessary you will also help eliminate data ... continue reading

Several weeks ago, Microsoft detected a 0-day remote code execution exploit being used to attack the SolarWinds Serv-U FTP software in limited and targeted attacks. The Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center (MSTIC) attributed the attack with high confidence to DEV-0322, a ... continue reading

Greetings again Windows Server and Failover Cluster fans!! John Marlin here and I own the Failover Clustering feature within the Microsoft product team. In this blog, I will be giving an overview of the new features in Windows Server 2022 ... continue reading

Our customers tell us that the applications and services they use to succeed extend across clouds and platforms. It’s why we are committed that our identity solutions work seamlessly and securely across platforms and extend to all clouds and apps ... continue reading

Heya folks, Ned here again. As you’ve heard by now, Windows Server 2022 is available and supported for production deployments. This new OS brings many new features around security, storage, networking, web, containers, applications, virtualization, edge, and Azure hybrid. Today ... continue reading

This blog post is part of the Microsoft Intelligent Security Association guest blog series. Learn more about MISA. Phishing and email spoofing not only erode brand trust but also leave recipients vulnerable to financial loss and serious invasions of privacy. These tactics have ... continue reading