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Figure 1: Network Security Group showing the inbound rule for port 8443.

Cloud Management Gateway – Inbound Rule for Port 8443

  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
How to deploy gMSA on AKS with Terraform

How to deploy gMSA on AKS with Terraform

The other day I posted a blog on how to deploy an AKS cluster that is ready for Windows workloads using Terraform. Today, I wanted to expand that to include gMSA, which is a highly requested feature from Windows customers ... continue reading
Capitalize on your investments with the new centrally managed Azure Hybrid Benefit for SQL Server

Capitalize on your investments with the new centrally managed Azure Hybrid Benefit for SQL Server

Introducing the new centrally managed Azure Hybrid Benefit for SQL Server.Today, Microsoft is pleased to announce the release of centrally managed Azure Hybrid Benefit for SQL Server, a new Azure portal feature that helps you improve SQL Server license management ... continue reading
Diagram of Mint Sandstorm attack chain examples

Nation-state threat actor Mint Sandstorm refines tradecraft to attack high-value targets

Over the past several months, Microsoft has observed a mature subgroup of Mint Sandstorm, an Iranian nation-state actor previously tracked as PHOSPHORUS, refining its tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs). Specifically, this subset has rapidly weaponized N-day vulnerabilities in common enterprise ... continue reading
Attack flow of the threat actor through initial access, execution, discovery, persistence, credential access, lateral movement, execution, impact, and communications stages.

MERCURY and DEV-1084: Destructive attack on hybrid environment

Microsoft Threat Intelligence has detected destructive operations enabled by MERCURY, a nation-state actor linked to the Iranian government, that attacked both on-premises and cloud environments. While the threat actors attempted to masquerade the activity as a standard ransomware campaign, the ... continue reading
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Guidance for investigating attacks using CVE-2023-23397

This guide provides steps organizations can take to assess whether users have been targeted or compromised by threat actors exploiting CVE-2023-23397. A successful exploit of this vulnerability can result in unauthorized access to an organization’s environment by triggering a Net-NTLMv2 ... continue reading
Wired for Hybrid - Episode 3 - What's New in Azure Networking - February 2023 Edition

Wired for Hybrid – Episode 3 – What’s New in Azure Networking – February 2023 Edition

Azure Networking is the foundation of your infrastructure in Azure. So, we’re happy to bring you a monthly update on What’s new in Azure Networking. In this blog post, we’ll cover what is new with Azure Networking. Public preview: Azure Firewall Basic Azure ... continue reading
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Easily migrate SQL Server applications to the cloud with Azure

Microsoft Azure knows SQL Server best and will support your cloud migration at no cost for qualifying scenarios.The SQL Server platform has been successfully driving transformative business results with Microsoft customers across industries for over 25 years, enabling breakthrough innovation ... continue reading
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NetDevOps on Azure

Introduction With every company, across every industry, digitally transforming, tons of modern applications are built at an unprecedented pace and speed, and all rely on the underlying network infrastructure. Networking enables application components to communicate with each other, its dependencies, ... continue reading
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How To Automate The Hybrid World Part Two Of Two

Hi, Jonas here! Or as we say in the north of Germany: "Moin Moin!"I’m a Microsoft Senior Cloud Solution Architect – Engineering (or short Sr. CSA-E) and in this article I want to talk about how to automate the hybrid world. Over ... continue reading