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Zero Trust revolves around three key principles:  verify explicitly, use least privileged access, and assume breach.  Microsoft’s Advanced Compliance Solutions are an important part of Zero Trust. This post applies a Zero Trust lens to protecting an organization’s sensitive data ... continue reading

Today, Microsoft is releasing a new annual report, called the Digital Defense Report, covering cybersecurity trends from the past year. This report makes it clear that threat actors have rapidly increased in sophistication over the past year, using techniques that ... continue reading

Learn how to use GitHub Action with the power of Azure Resource Manager (ARM) templates to create a Continuous Integration Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) pipeline.Learn More: Code SamplesAzure CLIInstall the Azure CLIService PrincipalCreating service principalLogging into azure cli with service principalDeploying ARM ... continue reading

Domain Name System (DNS) has a bad reputation for always being at fault if there are any issues with system connectivity and availability. This critical service translates "friendly" system names to network IP addresses, much like looking up a physical ... continue reading

  With the latest release of SharePoint Online Client Components aka CSOM (Client-Side Object Model) (version: 16.1.20317.12000 or above), we now support methods to capture versions of Document Sets in SharePoint Online document libraries. This fills a major gap in ... continue reading

Have you ever wondered what's going on under the hood for serverless offerings like Azure Container Instances? MacKenzie Olson shows Scott Hanselman the latest innovations in the infrastructure that powers ACI and a peek at the product roadmap, including a ... continue reading

This is Andrew Coughlin and I am a Customer Engineer at Microsoft focusing on Azure IaaS.  In this blog I will focus on how to add an additional server to an Azure File Sync and how to remove the old ... continue reading

Well Microsoft Ignite 2020 is over and while our step counters may not have captured as many steps as last year... it doesn't mean that there wasn't a plethora of Azure news shared.  Here are the headlines we are covering ... continue reading

For those interested in security and security analytics, we recently published an article on how you can now enable PowerShell Jupyter notebooks via .Net Interactive Public Preview for use with Azure Sentinel: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/azure-sentinel/what-s-new-powershell-azure-sentinel-notebooks-to-supercharge/ba-p/1695969 Happy threat hunting and investigation with PowerShell+Notebooks! ... continue reading

For the past decade, data science has become integral to many enterprise applications. Languages such as R and Python have left the realm of data scientists and are being used more frequently by data engineers supporting them. R and Python ... continue reading

Microsoft consistently tracks the most advanced threat actors and evolving attack techniques. We use these findings to harden our products and platform and share them with the security community to help defenders everywhere better protect the planet. Recently, the Microsoft ... continue reading

The Kusto (KQL) extension in Azure Data Studio is now available in preview. This native Kusto (KQL) support brings another modern data experience to Azure Data Studio, a cross-platform client for Windows, macOS, and Linux. Users can now connect and ... continue reading

TodoMVC is a very well known (like ~27K GitHub stars known) application among developers as it is a really great way to start to learn a new Model-View-Something framework. It has plenty of samples done with different frameworks, all implementing exactly ... continue reading

Everyone knows about phishing scams, and most of us think we’re too smart to take the bait. Our confidence often reaches superhero levels when we’re logged onto a company network. As Chief Security Advisor for Microsoft, and previously at telco ... continue reading

In this episode with Rohit Nayak, we will cover the Minimal TLS Version setting for SQL Database. Customers can use these features to enforce a TSL version at the logical server level to meet their compliance needs.   Watch on ... continue reading

Last week Microsoft released a new version of the Containers extension on Windows Admin Center. This release was focused on helping IT Admins getting their container hosts up and running without much effort. The process of deploying the containers feature ... continue reading

From the title, you may be wondering what the heck does Configuration Manager have to do with Azure Active Directory (AD) groups. Well, get ready for another lesson. As a Configuration Manager admin or an IT Manager, you may be ... continue reading

The COVID-19 pandemic continues to be challenging to adjust your business strategies to maintain productive operations and processes. You need new ways to increase efficiencies, optimize costs, and adopt new technologies at a faster rate. Your digital transformation is more ... continue reading

Azure SQL Managed Instance is a fully managed, secure, and always up-to-date SQL instance in the cloud, providing an ideal destination for modernizing your SQL Server applications at scale. SQL Managed Instance is part of the Azure SQL family of ... continue reading

Together with the Azure Stack Hub team, we are starting a journey to explore the ways our customers and partners use, deploy, manage, and build solutions on the Azure Stack Hub platform. Together with the Tiberiu Radu (Azure Stack Hub ... continue reading

Azure SQL Managed Instance is a fully-managed, secure, and always up-to-date SQL instance in the cloud. It provides state-of-the-art capabilities and industry-leading SLAs, allowing you to easily migrate and modernize your mission-critical applications in Azure. Azure SQL Managed Instance is ... continue reading

  Introduction Application scalability is very important for business success. Companies spend millions in ideation, software development, testing, and deployment to provide value to their customers. These customers then will use the app, but not in a regular basis. We ... continue reading

  This article outlines the spectrum of options available for migrating your solutions based on the SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) to Microsoft cloud, with focus on the newly-introduced support for hosting SSRS databases in Azure SQL Managed Instance.   ... continue reading

As you know, Microsoft Ignite 2020 has gone virtual this year. We have some great sessions, engagement options, the Cloud Skills Challenge, and much more for you. However, one part I would have missed this year would have been the ... continue reading

In the conclusion to this two-part series with Allan Hirt, learn how Azure can be used to create disaster recovery solutions for your on premises Microsoft SQL Server instances and databases through the use of built-in availability features of SQL ... continue reading

Today we introduce the availability of Azure SQL Edge, a real-time data engine, optimized for IoT workloads and backed by the security and performance of the same engine that powers SQL Server and Azure SQL.Azure SQL Edge is a small-footprint ... continue reading

The threat landscape continues to increase in both complexity and the level of sophistication of the attacks we observe. Attackers target the most vulnerable resources in an organization and then traverse laterally to target high-value assets. No longer can you ... continue reading

As we talk with a broad range of customers in the current environment, we hear some consistent challenges businesses are facing. With so many remote workers, people are creating, sharing, and storing data in new ways, which fosters productivity, but ... continue reading

Since Windows worker node support reached GA in Kubernetes Microsoft and Tigera have listened closely to feedback from the community.A big contention point of Windows Container users in the Kubernetes community is: “One of the most important open source network ... continue reading

Database backups are an essential part of any business continuity and disaster recovery strategy, because they protect your data from corruption or deletion. In Azure SQL there are two types of automated backups that customers can use for restoring their ... continue reading