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Active Directory Hardening Series - Part 5 – Enforcing LDAP Channel Binding

JerryDevore on Sep 03 2024 07:38 AM
Channel Binding is a LDAP hardening setting that is often misunderstood and as a result is often not enabled. In this po...
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Easily deploy an Azure Open AI instance with Documents

wernerrall on Aug 30 2024 09:00 AM
  Easily deploy an Azure Open AI instance with Documents
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Save ingestion costs by splitting logs into multiple tables and opting for the basic tier!

absharan on Aug 28 2024 09:38 AM
Let's delve into optimizing Microsoft Sentinel cost by splitting logs into multiple tables and opting for the basic tier...
1,570

Automating Disk Cleanup in Azure Using PowerShell, Azure Resource Graph and LastOwnershipUpdateTime

wernerrall on Aug 26 2024 09:00 AM
Automating Disk Cleanup in Azure Using PowerShell, Azure Resource Graph and LastOwnershipUpdateTime
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Switch off Virtual Machines on a schedule using an Azure Tag

wernerrall on Aug 23 2024 09:00 AM
  Switch off Virtual Machines on a schedule using an Azure Tag
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How-To Migrate ConfigMgr Apps to Intune Win32Apps

jonasoh on Aug 21 2024 02:40 PM
A guide on how to migrate ConfigMgr Apps to Intune.
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Monitoring Microsoft Sentinel Reports with Dashboard Hub & Power BI

absharan on Jul 29 2024 04:55 AM
Guidance on effectively leveraging Dashboard Hubs and Power BI to monitor Microsoft Sentinel data.
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Azure Monitor: How To Get Alerts for Disconnected Arc Agents

BrunoGabrielli on Jul 22 2024 12:00 AM
Do you know that your hybrid machines are not connected to Azure and hence are not sending monitoring data? How come? Do...
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Azure Monitor: How To Stop Log-search Alerts for Specific Resources

BrunoGabrielli on Jul 15 2024 12:00 AM
How many times, while dealing with alerting configured at scale, you had the need of stopping the alerts for few resourc...
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Check This Out! (CTO!) Guide (June 2024)

BrandonWilson on Jul 13 2024 11:18 AM
Welcome to the June 2024 Check This Out! (CTO!) guide: Helping you to expand your horizons!
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Microsoft Virtualization Migration Options

BrandonWilson on Jul 10 2024 07:59 PM
We are seeing a HUGE change in landscape that is bringing virtualization, System Center, and Azure Arc front and center ...
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Workspace & DCR Transformation Simplified

absharan on Jul 08 2024 08:54 PM
Let's delve into most common yet important use case - Workspace and DCR transformation.
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Introduction to Network Trace Analysis 5: SMB? Sounds good to me!

WillAftring on Jul 01 2024 05:53 AM
Let's start off with the question, what is this whole SMB thing anyway? SMB is a network file system protocol. This mean...
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Update on MFA requirements for Azure sign-in

najshahid on Jun 27 2024 01:25 PM
An update regarding the required multi-factor authentication (MFA) for users signing into Azure. In this post, we share ...
3,409

Simplifying Azure Diagnostics with Category Groups and the New Built-In Policies

Heinrich_Gantenbein on Jun 24 2024 09:00 AM
Microsoft released six Azure Initiatives in late May. These Initiatives simplify creating resource diagnostics settings.
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Dynamically Updating Azure IP Ranges with PowerShell and DevOps

wernerrall on Jun 17 2024 12:00 AM
Keeping your Azure IP ranges up-to-date is crucial for maintaining the security and efficiency of your cloud environment...
3,429

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

ChadMCox 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

arnabmitra 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...
4,434

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.
3,430

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

JerryDevore 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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christophwalker
in Update on MFA requirements for Azure sign-in on Sep 17 2024 07:42 AM
Hi,are there any updates or links to the developing guidance to the following statement: ***********************************In addition, below are a few scenarios for which we are still working on developing guidance, and we will address these in an upcoming blog post scheduled for mid-August: Organ...
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BrunoGabrielli
in Azure Monitor: How To Get Alerts for Disconnected Arc Agents on Sep 17 2024 07:18 AM
Hello @Deyemu , I would try by changing both the aggregation granularity and frequency of evaluation down to 5 or 10 minutes. I would also set the alert rule to split by name
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Deyemu
in Azure Monitor: How To Get Alerts for Disconnected Arc Agents on Sep 17 2024 06:38 AM
Thanks for the query, this is very useful. I have this set up and the query correctly finds disconnected agents when run manually, however the search alert rule never fires for me. Should this complete the relevant action once per frequency of evaluation, or only if there is a state change in the nu...
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kylesmith87
in Microsoft 365 Password Expiration Notification Email Solution for On-Premises AD Accounts on Sep 16 2024 01:04 PM
"Run the following from an elevated PowerShell (This will add the client secret from your app to the script using DPAPI and pins the credentials to the tools machine based on the user running the script…am I stressing this point yet?)"Run this from where. You did not document all the steps, and have...
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Ubairaga
in Update on MFA requirements for Azure sign-in on Sep 15 2024 07:51 PM
I wanted to inquire about Microsoft's MFA enforcement policy, specifically regarding service accounts. I understand that MFA is being enforced for all user and service identities logging into Azure. My question is: Will MFA be enforced for service accounts that do not interact with the Azure portal ...
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