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Active Directory Hardening Series - Part 4 – Enforcing AES for Kerberos

Jerry Devore on Apr 15 2024 03:01 PM
Disabling Kerberos RC4 is a top priority for many organizations today but identifying devices that don't support AES has...
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Proxies, proxies everywhere but still no Internet. Overview of the Windows Proxies

WillAftring on Apr 08 2024 06:41 AM
Howdy everyone, a quick tangent from our regularly scheduled Introduction to Network Trace Analysis series to talk about...
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Check This Out! (CTO!) Guide (February AND March 2024)

BrandonWilson on Apr 06 2024 07:24 PM
Welcome to the February AND March 2024 Check This Out! (CTO!) guide: Helping you to expand your horizons!
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ConfigMgr: Avoiding Remote Management Point Pitfalls

PavelYurenev on Apr 04 2024 09:00 AM
ConfigMgr architect advice: do not install Management Points in the remote locations!
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Get Azure Reservations and Savings Plans Insights with the Azure Optimization Engine

hspinto on Apr 01 2024 12:00 AM
When adopting Azure commitments, customers face typically two types of challenges: 1) Estimating the quantities or amoun...
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Securing Monitoring Services

khgandhi on Mar 28 2024 09:46 AM
Howdy Readers!
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Azure Monitor: Create Dedicated Clusters Using Any Commitment Tier

Bruno Gabrielli on Mar 21 2024 01:00 AM
Looking for an easy way to create an Azure Monitor Logs Dedicated Cluster using any pricing tier? Here we go with a simp...
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How To Export Data from Defender for Endpoint to Azure Data Explorer

Paul Bergson on Mar 19 2024 04:30 AM
Embark on a journey through the digital landscape as we uncover the secrets of exporting data from Defender for Endpoint...
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Mastering Azure Cost Optimization - A Comprehensive Guide

fbinotto on Mar 14 2024 01:30 AM
A comprehensive guide to Azure cost optimization.
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Azure PowerShell Tips and Tricks

PaulHarrison on Mar 11 2024 03:00 AM
Tips and tricks for using PowerShell and REST APIs in Azure.
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Optimize Your Azure Costs

sairashaik on Mar 06 2024 06:01 PM
This article will provide guidance to the customers who wants to Optimize their Azure costs by providing tools and resou...
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Active Directory Hardening Series - Part 3 – Enforcing LDAP Signing

Jerry Devore on Mar 04 2024 06:38 AM
In this series my goal is to help you understand how to move forward with confidence by better understanding the changes...
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Zero Trust: Rapid Offboarding with Intune and Microsoft Entra ID

Jason Cody on Feb 29 2024 07:12 AM
A guide for using Microsoft Entra ID and Microsoft Intune to prevent user authentication on Entra ID joined devices, whi...
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ConfigMgr Windows Update Compliance Reporting FAQ

jonasoh on Feb 26 2024 03:35 AM
ConfigMgr Windows update compliance reporting FAQ for high patch compliance percentage
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Quick, Check It Out Before It's Too Late! Azure Cost Optimization At It's Finest!

BrandonWilson on Feb 21 2024 08:22 PM
Hi everyone...a bit late to the party, but here are some sessions to help you save more on your Azure costs!
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Protecting Tier 0 the Modern Way

DagmarHeidecker on Feb 19 2024 04:15 AM
Almost every attack on Active Directory you hear about today – no matter if ransomware is involved or not – (ab)uses cre...
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Check This Out! (CTO!) Guide (January 2024)

BrandonWilson on Feb 18 2024 04:35 PM
Welcome to the January 2024 Check This Out! (CTO!) guide: Helping you to expand your horizons!
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Protect unmanaged or 3rd party MDM managed iOS/Android devices with MDE

Arnab Mitra on Feb 15 2024 11:59 AM
A guide to using Microsoft Defender for Endpoint as a mobile threat defense solution for Unmanaged (personal) and 3rd pa...
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Test your Patches! A Staged Patching Solution with Azure Update Manager

hspinto on Feb 12 2024 12:00 AM
A common challenge faced by most enterprise organizations who, hopefully, automate their operating systems patching cycl...
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Monitoring for an Azure Server Going Offline

Paul Bergson on Feb 05 2024 04:13 AM
Azure Monitor is a beneficial tool that has low costs for logs that are already in the tool. The main expenses for Azure...
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Migrating from the Azure MMA to AMA Agent

Paul Bergson on Jan 29 2024 05:20 AM
I have another conversation about the sunset of the Microsoft Monitoring Agent (MMA). Back on November 13, 2023 I posted...
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Collect Event Ids using Azure Monitor Agent

Bindusar on Jan 23 2024 08:27 AM
In this guide we will configure Azure Monitor Agent and Log Analytics workspace to collect event ID from Windows devices...
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Zero Touch Enrollment of MDE on iOS/iPadOS devices managed by Intune

Arnab Mitra on Jan 18 2024 08:50 AM
A guide for IT administrators to Zero Touch (silently) deploy and activate Microsoft Defender for Endpoint on Intune man...
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ConfigMgr CMG Least Privilege Setup Approach

jonasoh on Jan 15 2024 03:31 AM
Setup guide for ConfigMgr CMG without Global Admin permissions used in ConfigMgr console
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Intune iOS/iPadOS Management In a Nutshell

jonasoh on Jan 08 2024 05:18 AM
A brief overview of how to manage iOS and iPadOS devices with Microsoft Intune and how to get started
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Check This Out! (CTO!) Guide (December 2023)

BrandonWilson on Jan 07 2024 10:40 AM
Welcome to the December 2023 Check This Out! (CTO!) guide: Helping you to expand your horizons!
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Onboarding Intune Managed iOS User Enrollment Devices to Microsoft Defender for Endpoint

Arnab Mitra on Jan 03 2024 01:39 PM
A guide for administrators to configure and deploy Microsoft Defender for Endpoint on Intune managed iOS devices that ar...
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Check This Out! (CTO!) Guide (November 2023)

BrandonWilson on Dec 22 2023 02:13 PM
Welcome to the November 2023 Check This Out! (CTO!) guide: Helping you to expand your horizons!
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Designing Cloud Architecture: Creating Professional Azure Diagrams with PowerPoint

wernerrall on Dec 17 2023 11:00 PM
Discover how to use PowerPoint and official Azure icons for professional cloud architecture diagrams. Transform simple p...
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The Twelve Days of Blog-mas: No.12 - Copilot(s) - Your AI Assistant(s)

Michael Hildebrand on Dec 15 2023 04:00 AM
Enjoy the twelfth of twelve or so blog posts from Hilde for the Holidays of 2023 ...

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adilbouazzaoui
in Microsoft 365 Password Expiration Notification Email Solution for On-Premises AD Accounts on Apr 17 2024 05:13 AM
Hello,thank you for sharing the script, it works perfectly after too much testings.just to let you know that we can also adjust the script to lookup users in a specific OU; this way you can send different emails to each group of users/departments.
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Bruno Gabrielli
in Azure Monitor: How To Use Managed Identity with Log Ingestion API on Apr 17 2024 01:34 AM
Hello @v-liangchen , was it about authenticating from an Azure VM, an Arc-Enabled VM or from Automation Account? I am not aware of any change and the replacement you did was basically changing the target to a different resource not Azure Monitor. Did you grant the necessary permission to the managed...
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jaironjunior
in Microsoft 365 Password Expiration Notification Email Solution for On-Premises AD Accounts on Apr 15 2024 11:18 AM
@Michael Kullish Hey there, awesome tutorial, got to do all the requesites, and everything seems to be running fine.But I had the older version with SMTP Server, and I used it different, it would send the email with a jpeg file.When I try to edit the body to send as a jpeg instead of message, it doe...
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hspinto
in Get Azure Reservations and Savings Plans Insights with the Azure Optimization Engine on Apr 15 2024 04:12 AM
Hi @Robert Milner. It is possible to have a single instance of AOE across multiple tenants. However, setting this up is not documented and will be time consuming, unless you automate it. You will notice that most AOE Automation Runbooks have these three parameters: $externalCloudEnvironment, $extern...
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Robert Milner
in Get Azure Reservations and Savings Plans Insights with the Azure Optimization Engine on Apr 15 2024 01:53 AM
This is awesome! I have just deployed AOE, and now waiting for the data to be populated. Is it possible to run a single instance of AOE across multiple tenants? I manage multiple tenants, and having all this information in central set of workbooks would be amazing!
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