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Hi everyone! Brandon Wilson here once again with this month’s “Check This Out!” (CTO!) guide. These posts are only intended to be your guide, to lead you to some content of interest, and are just a way we are trying ... continue reading

Heya folks, Ned here again. Beginning in Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 25381 (Canary, zn_release) Enterprise editions, SMB signing is now required by default for all connections. This changes legacy behavior, where Windows 10 and 11 required SMB signing by ... continue reading

I have previously talked about Azure VMware Solution Landing Zone Accelerator (AVS LZ) and the automation tools in my previous blog post. This open-source solution provides an architectural approach and reference implementation to prepare Azure landing zone subscriptions for a scalable ... continue reading

Identity has become the corporate security perimeter. The average organization used 130 different cloud applications in 2022. That’s up 18 percent from 2021 alone.1 And as organizations continue to embrace digital transformation and enable remote work, they look to identity ... continue reading

In the past year, I have been working on improving our documentation and learning content for Windows containers – in addition to the blog posts you have seen here. Today, I wanted to spend some time on the new content ... continue reading

Introduction In the ever-evolving digital landscape, the importance of clean, well-structured URLs cannot be overstated. A well-crafted URL not only improves user experience, but it also boosts your website's SEO ranking. One common issue web developers and content creators face ... continue reading

Hello Folks, Azure Networking is the foundation of your infrastructure in Azure. Each month we bring you an update on What’s new in Azure Networking. In this blog post, we’ll cover what's new with Azure Networking in May 2023. Cross-region service ... continue reading

A new vulnerability, which we refer to as “Migraine” for its involvement with macOS migration, could allow an attacker with root access to automatically bypass System Integrity Protection (SIP) in macOS and perform arbitrary operations on a device. We shared ... continue reading

  Hello! My name is Nandan Sheth, and I am a part of Microsoft’s Customer Success Unit based out of Dublin, Ireland. I have been helping customers set up the Cloud Management Gateway for a few years now, but recently ... continue reading

This blog post concludes the three part series that addresses common networking problems that may occur while working with Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS). Although AKS is a managed container orchestration service, issues can still arise, requiring troubleshooting.   The earlier ... continue reading

This week at Microsoft Build, we introduced Microsoft Entra External ID, our next generation of customer identity and access management (CIAM) solution that evolves Azure AD External Identities to help developers efficiently build secure and compliant applications for customers, partners, and more ... continue reading

Microsoft has uncovered stealthy and targeted malicious activity focused on post-compromise credential access and network system discovery aimed at critical infrastructure organizations in the United States. The attack is carried out by Volt Typhoon, a state-sponsored actor based in China ... continue reading

This post is the second in a three-part series on troubleshooting common networking issues with Azure Kubernetes (AKS), a managed container orchestration service. Scenarios in this post were the result of an intensive one-day bootcamp specifically targeting advanced AKS networking triage ... continue reading

At Microsoft Build 2023—an event for developers by developers—we’re going to announce exciting new features and technologies, share ideas, and help everyone boost their skills so we can all build a more secure future together. This year’s Microsoft Build offers ... continue reading

Exchange Admin 2022 Integration Pack v10.22.1.* has known issues and we strongly recommend customers to update to the latest build v10.22.2.5 that can be downloaded here.   What is the issue? In SC Orchestrator, the Runbook Author role is responsible ... continue reading

The other day I published a comprehensive blog post about deploying gMSA on AKS with Terraform. As part of that blog post, I deployed an Azure VM and ran a script on it to deploy Active Directory Domain Services. Today, ... continue reading

If the latest in code and application development is not your focus area of technology, you might be tempted to give the Microsoft Build conference a miss this week. But if you manage infrastructure & cloud resources, play with low-code/no-code ... continue reading

AKS or Azure Kubernetes Service is a fully managed Kubernetes container orchestration service that enables you to deploy, scale, and manage containerized applications easily. However, even with the most robust systems issues can arise that require troubleshooting.    This blog ... continue reading

Today we released the fourth edition of Cyber Signals highlighting a surge in cybercriminal activity around business email compromise (BEC). Microsoft has observed a 38 percent increase in cybercrime as a service (CaaS) targeting business email between 2019 and 2022.1 ... continue reading

Hello everyone! I´m Stefan Röll, Cloud Solution Architect at Microsoft Germany for Intune and Microsoft Configuration Manager. In the past weeks, I got a lot of questions from customers around the recently released Unified Update Platform (UUP). In this Blog ... continue reading

Version 3 previews of PowerShellGet will begin shipping in PowerShell 7.4 previews in June (preview 5) with the following updates. These changes include important plans to address migration and compatibility, and we would like to request feedback. The module name ... continue reading

In previous blogs, we've emphasized the importance of multifactor authentication (MFA). Today, organizations and end users are using various authentication methods, providing varying levels of security. Users often choose less secure MFA methods, despite having access to more secure options due ... continue reading

Hi folks! My name is Felipe Binotto, Cloud Solution Architect, based in Australia.   If you are hands-on with Azure operations, I’m sure at some point you have been asked to provide some type of report containing information about your ... continue reading

Most of the time while developing PowerShell scripts we don’t need to worry about performance, or execution time. After all, scripts were made to run automation in the background. However, as your scripts become more sophisticated, and you need to ... continue reading

Author introduction Hi, I am Saira Shaik, Working Principal customer success account manager at Microsoft India.   I created this Dashboard to display the units consumed and the respective cost for Selected filters.   This Dashboard will be helpful for ... continue reading

As we look forward to Microsoft Build 2023, I am inspired by the innovation coming from our ISV partners and SaaS providers building on the Microsoft Cloud. In the past year, we’ve seen large-scale, generative AI models support the creation of ... continue reading

In the first blog of our series on Azure Security, we delved into our defense-in-depth approach for tackling cloud vulnerabilities. The second blog highlighted our use of variant hunting to detect patterns of vulnerabilities across our services. In this installment, we will introduce our game-changing ... continue reading

Early in my career, I worked as a developer and system administrator. I loved my teams and projects and noticed that many of the things engineers talked about when we were really getting work done (“being productive”) just didn’t make ... continue reading

Microsoft and Elastic partnered together in 2020 to build an Elastic Cloud (Elasticsearch)—An Azure Native ISV Service to create cloud native deeply integrated experiences for all Azure and Elastic customers to power their digital transformation. Since general availability, thanks to you, this service ... continue reading

Azure Files provides fully managed file shares in the cloud that you can access from anywhere using standard protocols such as Server Message Block (SMB) or Network File System (NFS).  Since announcing the general availability of support for the Network File System ... continue reading