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Microsoft continues to innovate to help secure small businesses
Small and medium-sized businesses are at the heart of our economy and are dedicated to driving value for their customers, whether that means trying new recipes, exploring new inventory, expanding services, arranging the shop so it’s easier to navigate, or ... continue reading
Azure VMware Solution – Monitoring Quickstart Guide
Learn how easy it is to quickly set up some basic alerting and monitoring in your Azure VMware Solution environment. In this video, I utilize the GitHub repository provided by Microsoft AVS experts available at Enterprise Scale for AVS Follow along ... continue reading

The next wave of multicloud security with Microsoft Defender for Cloud, a Cloud-Native Application Protection Platform (CNAPP)
With digital transformation in the face of macroeconomic pressures, strategies to optimize both cloud environments and cloud security are increasingly appealing to enterprises. Organizations worry about vulnerabilities in code getting deployed, critical misconfigurations, overprivileged access to cloud infrastructure, and evolving ... continue reading

Microsoft recognized as a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Data Security Platforms, Q1 2023
Organizations need to protect their sensitive data including intellectual property, trade secrets, customer data, and personally identifiable information from both insiders and external cyber attackers. In fact, 80 percent of organizations experience more than one data breach in their lifetime.1 ... continue reading

Connect, secure, and simplify your network resources with Azure Virtual Network Manager
Enterprise-scale management and configuration of your network resources in Azure are key to keeping costs down, reducing operational overhead, and properly connecting and securing your network presence in the cloud. We are happy to announce Azure Virtual Network Manager (AVNM), your ... continue reading
Change Configuration Manager Site Server OS – In-place Upgrade Reference
Hello! My name is Herbert Fuchs and together with other members of the Customer Success Unit and the Customer Service & Support Organization we want to help our Customers with This Blog-Series. We gathered information and put our field ... continue reading
Gain real-time identity protection with Microsoft and Recorded Future
This blog post is part of the Microsoft Intelligent Security Association guest blog series. Learn more about MISA. You’ve implemented multifactor authentication for access to your enterprise network. But what if multifactor authentication isn’t as foolproof as you’re hoping? Are you comfortable ... continue reading
Customize your authentication flows with custom claims providers!
Howdy folks, I’m super excited to announce the public preview of custom claims providers for Azure Active Directory (Azure AD), now part of Microsoft Entra. A custom claims provider lets you call an API and map custom claims into ... continue reading

Microsoft achieves first native Cloud Data Management Capabilities certification
Today, Microsoft announced the successful completion of the Cloud Data Management Capabilities (CDMC) 14 Key Controls and Automations certification, conducted by Accenture and Avanade, accelerating the industry’s move to the cloud. The 14 Key Controls and Automations are a part ... continue reading

Leverage cloud-powered security with Microsoft Defender for IoT
Traditionally, operational technology (OT) and IT have occupied separate sides of enterprise security. But with digital transformation and the advent of Industry 4.0, the old, siloed approach is showing its age.1 The rise of manufacturing execution systems has enabled more ... continue reading
Decision Flow to Estimate Pod Spread on AKS
In Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), the concept of pod spread is important to ensure that pods are distributed efficiently across nodes in a cluster. This helps to optimize resource utilization, increase application performance, and maintain high availability. This article ... continue reading

KillNet and affiliate hacktivist groups targeting healthcare with DDoS attacks
In the last year, geopolitical tension has led to an uptick of reported cybercrime events fueled by hacktivist groups. The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) published an advisory to warn organizations about these attacks and teamed with the ... continue reading
Don’t miss us at Microsoft Secure & Gartner IAM
Event season is approaching! Our team is looking forward to seeing you all at Gartner IAM and Microsoft Secure this month! Check out our identity sessions below: Gartner IAM Microsoft will be participating in Gartner IAM March 20-22 in Grapevine, ... continue reading

Change Configuration Manager Site Server OS – Disaster Recovery Reference
Hello! My name is Herbert Fuchs and together with other members of the Customer Success Unit and the Customer Service & Support Organization we want to help our Customers with This Blog-Series. We gathered information and put our field ... continue reading

SDN + AKS 3-15-23 Updates and Features
Hello to our amazing Customers- Can you believe it's almost April, better yet, almost Spring!? Time is flying and our SDN team is hard at work in coordination with the AKS Hybrid team. The 3-15-23 AKS Hybrid release includes a ... continue reading
Join us at Microsoft Secure to discover the latest security solutions
Microsoft Secure is our first flagship event designed just for security professionals. On March 28, 2023, we will bring together security professionals from around the world to explore security information and event management (SIEM) and extended detection and response (XDR), ... continue reading
Wired for Hybrid – Deep Dive 1 – Azure AD introduces support for IPV6
Hello Folks, Microsoft introduced support for IPv6 in our operating systems starting with Windows XP Service Pack 1 in 2002. However, it wasn't until Windows Vista in 2006 that Microsoft offered full support for IPv6. In 2011, the Internet Assigned ... continue reading
How To Upgrade/Change the Operating System Which Hosts Microsoft Configuration Manager
Hello! My name is Herbert Fuchs and together with other members of the Customer Success Unit and the Customer Service & Support Organization we want to help our Customers with This Blog-Series. We gathered information and put our field and ... continue reading
Physical switch requirement changes for Azure Stack HCI
Hello everyone, I’m Basel Kablawi, PM on the Azure Edge and Platform - Core Networking team, here to announce the latest updates to the physical network switch requirements! Our ecosystem of physical switches is designed to help ensure the compatibility and ... continue reading
Gain flexibility and scale with a cloud-native DLP solution
We’re living in a seismic era for data security. Chief information security officers (CISOs) have to contend with a digital landscape that seems to shift daily as more organizations move to remote and hybrid work, redrawing the boundaries for how ... continue reading

Protect against cyberattacks with the new Azure Firewall Basic
Cyberattacks continue to rise across businesses of all sizes as attackers are adapting their techniques and increasing the complexity of their operations.1 The risk of these attacks is significant for small and medium businesses (SMBs) as they usually don’t have ... continue reading

Microsoft to showcase purpose-built AI infrastructure at NVIDIA GTC
Join Microsoft at NVIDIA GTC, a free online global technology conference (GTC), March 20 to 23 to learn how organizations of any size can power AI innovation with purpose-built cloud infrastructure from Microsoft. Microsoft's Azure AI supercomputing infrastructure is uniquely designed ... continue reading
Automating Block Blob Backup
Hi folks! My name is Felipe Binotto, Cloud Solution Architect, based in Australia. This post is about how you can automate the backup of Block Blob Storage using Azure Backup Vault (not to be confused with Azure Recovery Service ... continue reading

DEV-1101 enables high-volume AiTM campaigns with open-source phishing kit
Adversary-in-the-middle (AiTM) phishing kits are part of an increasing trend that is observed supplanting many other less advanced forms of phishing. AiTM phishing is capable of circumventing multifactor authentication (MFA) through reverse-proxy functionality. DEV-1101 is an actor tracked by Microsoft ... continue reading
Field tips for AKS storage provisioning
In an Azure Kubernetes (AKS) cluster, Pods can access physical storage resources such as disks or volumes using Persistent Volumes (PV). To use these resources, Pods need to make a Persistent Volume Claim (PVC), which requests a specific amount of ... continue reading

SQL Server 2022: Intel® QuickAssist Technology overview
Part of the SQL Server 2022 blog series. In SQL Server 2008 Enterprise Edition, backup compression was introduced addingWITH COMPRESSION as an option in the T-SQL backup command. SQL Server backup compression provides the compressed backup option for all streaming SQL ... continue reading

SQL Server 2022: Intel® QuickAssist Technology overview
Part of the SQL Server 2022 blog series. In SQL Server 2008 Enterprise Edition, backup compression was introduced addingWITH COMPRESSION as an option in the T-SQL backup command. SQL Server backup compression provides the compressed backup option for all streaming SQL ... continue reading
The beginning of the end of Remote Mailslots
Heya folks, Ned here again. With the release of Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 25314, we have started disabling the Remote Mailslot protocol by default. This is a precursor to deprecation and eventual removal from Windows. You aren't using this extremely legacy ... continue reading
The beginning of the end of Remote Mailslots
Heya folks, Ned here again. With the release of Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 25314, we have started disabling the Remote Mailslot protocol by default. This is a precursor to deprecation and eventual removal from Windows. You aren't using this extremely legacy ... continue reading
International Women’s Day: The power of diversity to build stronger cybersecurity teams
Women’s History Month is a special time for me as I reflect on all the great innovations women have made over the years. Women have driven technology forward throughout history. Notable women in cybersecurity like cryptologists Agnes Meyer Driscoll and ... continue reading