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Alan La Pietra on 06-15-2021 12:00 AM

Cloud App Security: block TOR Browser

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EricLong on 06-14-2021 12:00 AM

How to automate a corporate-wide IP block list dynamically using Azure Functions to apply it automatically across Azure ...

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John_Barbare on 06-09-2021 09:00 PM

Learn about the new Group Policy Analytics for your GPO baselines or STIGs when moving to the cloud in MEM.

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daribei on 06-07-2021 12:00 AM

If you are looking for a way to pull a Image from ACR without exposing credentials, this might be the right post for you

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magdysalem on 06-03-2021 11:31 AM

In the last blog we discussed AKS Pod Identity and how we utilize this feature in our application and establish a secure...

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Russ Rimmerman on 06-01-2021 03:19 PM

Are you challenged with keeping up with all your Azure Active Directory Enterprise Application client secrets and certif...

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Zoheb Shaikh on 05-26-2021 03:30 PM

Recently I had couple of customers asking many questions on KRBTGT account password reset and Microsoft’s recommendation...

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David Loder on 05-24-2021 01:09 PM

Over the past year I’ve seen an uptick in requests from customers looking to modernize their GALSync solution. Either th...

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Stefan Röll on 05-20-2021 02:59 AM

Delivery Optimization can be used to optimize setup and update downloads for various products. However, it is important ...

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jonasoh on 05-17-2021 12:32 AM

If you are looking for a way to detect any changes to your MECM environment, this might be the right article for you.

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PaulHarrison on 05-13-2021 12:00 AM

How to run PowerShell on all of your Azure subscriptions at once.

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Chris Vetter on 05-10-2021 02:26 PM

Make your journey to the cloud a little easier by redirecting Known Folders to OneDrive for Business with MEMCM

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TanTran on 05-05-2021 05:54 AM

Windows Defender Guard Events searched by Windows Event Viewer and by Microsoft 365 Security Advanced Hunting.

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Bruno Gabrielli on 05-03-2021 12:00 AM

One big question from customers about Azure Monitor alerts is how to change their status automatically. This post is try...

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hewagen on 04-29-2021 07:02 AM

This blog post is about how to approach a sporadical workstation lock. I'm using tools like XPerf and Windows Performanc...

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hspinto on 04-26-2021 12:00 AM

Sharing some tips about how to leverage NSG Flow Logs and Traffic Analytics to improve your Azure network security hygie...

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EJansen on 04-22-2021 12:05 AM

Eric Jansen here to talk about an interesting, but dangerous scenario that I've been seeing all too often in my travels.

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Joel Vickery on 04-19-2021 04:57 PM

A mild mannered IT administrator is doing routine patching when things go south. At first it seems like maybe just a cas...

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Eric_Woodruff on 04-15-2021 08:15 AM

Exploring how Azure AD and Azure AD Connect match user objects from Active Directory

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magdysalem on 04-12-2021 04:30 PM

Pod Identity is a feature allows applications deployed to communicate with AAD, request a token then use the token to ac...

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AndrewCoughlin on 04-08-2021 12:00 AM

In this blog post we will talk about an issue I ran into in the past around setting up Active Directory Authentication f...

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bwatts670 on 04-05-2021 06:00 AM

Detecting anomalies in your data can be a powerful tool. In this article we examine how to do exactly this with data in ...

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magdysalem on 03-31-2021 11:45 AM

Today as we develop and run application in AKS, we do not want credentials like database connection strings, keys, or se...

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Russ Rimmerman on 03-30-2021 09:21 PM

I've heard a bit of interest expressed recently in the ability to create a customizable Endpoint Configuration Manager (...

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BrandonWilson on 03-26-2021 11:57 AM

Investigating Hyper-V live migration failures that result in a 0x8009030E error

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BrandonWilson on 03-22-2021 10:42 AM

After a bit of a hiatus, welcome (back) to the Noteworthy News series (March 2021 edition)!

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John_Barbare on 03-17-2021 09:00 PM

Learn about the new "Warn Mode" for Attack Surface Reduction Rules and creating the profile in Microsoft Endpoint Manage...

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John_Barbare on 03-14-2021 09:10 PM

In this blog I will go over investigating an incident in Microsoft 365 Defender using the new unified portal.

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bwatts670 on 03-11-2021 05:00 AM

Looking for an easy way to make Azure REST API calls? Not comfortable writing code to do it? Well Azure Logic App to the...

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pbracher on 03-10-2021 12:00 AM

This blog is in support of Microsoft Defender for Endpoint (MDE, formerly MDATP) on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)

Latest Comments

in How-To: Automated Company-Wide IP Blocking via Azure Firewall and Azure Functions on 06-14-2021

This was a proof of concept, so very minimal error handling. You could manually drop the file again.

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in How-To: Automated Company-Wide IP Blocking via Azure Firewall and Azure Functions on 06-14-2021

How do you handle failures in processing, I assume process can not be rerun since trigger is set only on new blob creation

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in “Why are my users not prompted for MFA as expected?” on 06-11-2021

Great article. Very informative, gives a bit more confidence to the procedure... and entertaining. Nice.

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in Azure Web App for Containers: Pulling a Container Image from ACR Without Exposing Credentials on 06-10-2021

@cnooney, admin account is required only for some scenarios, for example: deploy a container through Azure Portal. In a production environment you can use some other authentication strategy, for example: service principal. Admin Account is recommended for testing purposes only.

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in Configuration Manager Current Branch Antivirus Exclusions on 06-10-2021

Hey @JimRoseIT, I think that is a better question to ask your AV vendor. That might depend on what is allowed. Hope this helps! Thanks again for reading.

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