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Seamless Recovery: How to Automate Azure VM Evictions Start Ups with Azure Functions

wernerrall on Jun 10 2024 12:00 AM
Seamless Recovery: How to Automate Azure VM Evictions Start Ups with Azure Functions
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Check This Out! (CTO!) Guide (May 2024)

BrandonWilson on Jun 01 2024 02:19 PM
Welcome to the May 2024 Check This Out! (CTO!) guide: Helping you to expand your horizons!
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Addressing Common Entra ID Protection Deployment and Maintenance Issues

Chad Cox on May 30 2024 09:00 AM
Entra ID Protection is crucial for safeguarding against password attacks, phishing and other attacks. It's important to ...
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Microsoft Entra ID Tenant Starters Guide: Understanding Identity Management and Licensing

GregorWohlfarter on May 29 2024 04:23 AM
A brief introduction to the key concepts and features of Microsoft Entra ID Tenant.
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Check This Out! (CTO!) Guide (April 2024)

BrandonWilson on May 27 2024 09:16 PM
Welcome to the April 2024 Check This Out! (CTO!) guide: Helping you to expand your horizons!
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Optimizing Cloud Management: Leveraging Azure Update Manager with Pre and Post Events

wernerrall on May 20 2024 01:19 AM
Optimizing Cloud Management: Leveraging Azure Update Manager with Pre and Post Events
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Enable Zero Touch Enrollment of MDE on macOS devices managed by Microsoft Intune

Arnab Mitra on May 17 2024 07:27 AM
A guide for IT administrators to Zero Touch (silently) deploy and activate Microsoft Defender for Endpoint on Intune man...
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Microsoft will require MFA for all Azure users

Erin Chapple (BOURKE-DUNPHY) on May 14 2024 03:47 PM
Multi-factor authentication makes you, your company and your cloud investments safer
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Revisiting Enterprise Policy as Code v10

Heinrich_Gantenbein on May 01 2024 08:47 AM
As EPAC has reached version 10, it is time to revisit Enterprise Policy as Code (EPAC for short). We look into Release F...
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Building Your Own Copilot for Credit Card Selection

fbinotto on Apr 28 2024 11:45 PM
Let's create a personalized Copilot to guide us through the sea of credit card offerings.
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Controlling AKS egress using an HTTP Proxy

HoussemDellai on Apr 22 2024 09:00 AM
This is how to put your AKS cluster behind a proxy.  
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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!
2,608

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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Archive MDE Data to Event Hubs to ADX

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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in Microsoft will require MFA for all Azure users on Jun 11 2024 10:22 AM
@ajc196 we are in the same boat. We use Duo, and we can't really roll out EAM properly in the current state. Everything wants you to use Microsoft MFA by default. That isn't acceptable and will create user confusion after we have been telling them not to use Microsoft Authenticator for so long.
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ajc196
in Microsoft will require MFA for all Azure users on Jun 10 2024 07:51 AM
@Naj Shahid I see it was mentioned we cannot opt-out of this. But I'd like to present our edge case that we're really stressing over with this announcement. We are a public higher ed institution with tens of thousands of active users. We enforce MFA in two different ways: * Admin users use Microsoft...
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kboroumand330
in Secrets from the Deep – The DNS Analytical Log – Part 5 on Jun 07 2024 12:43 PM
Great jobs with these articles. Just one question, is there any way to configure Windows logging to filter malicious C2 domains or can this only been done by third party software?Thanks in advance.
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DavideB-IT
in Microsoft will require MFA for all Azure users on Jun 07 2024 01:14 AM
What about tenants using licenses without Entra ID Premium? No way to avoid MFA for some special case?
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tiamsol
in Microsoft will require MFA for all Azure users on Jun 06 2024 02:43 PM
Thanks Microsoft.Did I miss anything here, how are we going to implement for Service accounts.
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