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Core Infrastructure and Security Blog

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SQL Server 2019 PolyBase feature High Availability

bake13 on Oct 27 2021 05:13 AM
One of the most exciting aspects of SQL Server 2019 are the enhanced capabilities around the PolyBase feature that enabl...
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Microsoft 365 Password Expiration Notification Email Solution for On-Premises AD Accounts

Michael Kullish on Oct 18 2021 12:00 AM
Forget about SMTP, this article will help you configure Email notifications for Active Directory users that have expirin...
3,166

NDES Security Best Practices

DagmarHeidecker on Oct 11 2021 02:45 AM
NDES (Network Device Enrollment Server) - if misconfigured or not secured and hardened properly - can be a door opener f...
1,352

How Do I Install Windows Supplemental Fonts on Windows 10?

Elizabeth_Greene on Sep 28 2021 07:16 PM
How do I Install Windows supplemental fonts on a Windows system without changing the entire UI to that language? For exa...
2,791

Azure Monitor - OMI Vulnerabilities Rapid Check Workbook

Bruno Gabrielli on Sep 24 2021 12:00 AM
Struggling to rapidly find if you're suffering the OMI vulnerability? This workbook can help in quickly checking if your...
2,402

Parsing JSON with PowerShell

PaulHarrison on Sep 20 2021 02:25 PM
How to parse JSON in PowerShell in any version of PowerShell.
2,412

Alert Based on Log to Metrics Feature on Azure Monitor

edzonca on Sep 14 2021 09:58 AM
Log to Metrics on Azure Monitor, a cool feature that be very useful in alerts creation. In this article we'll see, what ...
2,576

Azure & Desired State Configuration Part 4/4

wernerrall on Sep 05 2021 11:54 PM
Part 4: How can Desired State Configuration increase deployment quality on Azure DevOps, Azure Portal or Azure Automatio...
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Azure & Desired State Configuration Part 3/4

wernerrall on Aug 30 2021 02:21 AM
Part 3: How can Desired State Configuration increase deployment quality on Azure DevOps, Azure Portal or Azure Automatio...
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Azure & Desired State Configuration Part 2/4

wernerrall on Aug 23 2021 07:58 AM
Part 2: How can Desired State Configuration increase deployment quality on Azure DevOps, Azure Portal or Azure Automatio...
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Azure AD Sign-in Logs + Workbooks = Know Who is Using Windows Hello for Business

Michael Hildebrand on Aug 19 2021 04:00 AM
Use this super-easy method to get a nice report of who is using Windows Hello for Business to authenticate to Azure AD.
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Azure & Desired State Configuration Part 1/4

wernerrall on Aug 16 2021 09:03 AM
Part 1: How can Desired State Configuration increase deployment quality on Azure DevOps, Azure Portal or Azure Automatio...
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AD FS to Azure AD Migrations: Notes from the Field

Eric_Woodruff on Aug 12 2021 06:00 AM
Get the scoop on what makes for a successful migration of your enterprise applications from AD FS to Azure AD, and what ...
2,681

Disassemble Powershell Commandlets

hewagen on Aug 05 2021 12:30 AM
This article is about disassembling Powershell CMDLets. I shows you an easy way to view the implementation of the comman...
2,168

Azure Arc: - How To Update Arc Agent Using Azure Automation

Bruno Gabrielli on Aug 02 2021 12:00 AM
Today I would like to talk to you about a possible approach to keep the agent on Azure Arc enabled servers up-to-date. T...
2,445

Azure Kubernetes Services - Start & Stop Your AKS Cluster on Schedule using Azure Automation

Bruno Gabrielli on Jul 29 2021 12:00 AM
Hi everybody, here I am again to show you a possible way to start and stop your AKS cluster on schedule. Are you interes...
2,482

Azure File Sync Switching Server Endpoint on Existing Server

AndrewCoughlin on Jul 26 2021 12:00 AM
In this blog I will focus on how to switch a server endpoint on an existing server to a new one.
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LOG SENSOR AND TELEMETRY SERVICES IN ISOLATED NETWORK

TanTran on Jul 23 2021 05:16 AM
Microsoft Monitoring Agent connection, Telemetry connection, Stand-alone Sensor connection in Isolated Network.
2,725

Register the Azure AD Connect Health for ADDS Agent via Service Principal

Graeme Bray on Jul 19 2021 03:00 AM
Read more for details on how to register the Azure AD Connect Health agent via Service Principal. This process will help...
2,536

Azure Sentinel – How to Audit Management Groups

sifriger on Jul 15 2021 12:00 AM
A quick walkthrough of auditing management groups using the Azure REST API!
3,310

Kubernetes Nodepools Explained

HoussemDellai on Jul 12 2021 04:29 AM
Use Kubernetes Nodepools to choose to which nodes to schedule pods and to easily upgrade the cluster.
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Azure Monitor - Restrict Log Analytics Query Results to Business Days and Business Hours

Bruno Gabrielli on Jul 07 2021 12:00 AM
Hello readers, do you need to filter your query results or getting alerted only during business hours? Read through to g...
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Azure Monitor - Alert Notification via Teams

Bruno Gabrielli on Jul 05 2021 12:00 AM
Hi there, Bruno Gabrielli here again to talk about how to get alert notification using a Teams channel. Lots of customer...
2,097

Diagnosing Network Isolation Issues

WillAftring on Jul 02 2021 12:32 PM
How Network Isolation interacts with Universal Windows Platform (UWP) applications and how / why you may want to alter s...
2,807

The Case of Azure AD Quota Exhaustion

Zoheb Shaikh on Jun 29 2021 03:40 PM
Hello everyone, my name is Zoheb Shaikh and I’m a Solution Engineer working with Microsoft Mission Critical team (SfMC)....
5,696

Intune - Enrollment Options for End-Entity Certificates

DagmarHeidecker on Jun 29 2021 01:40 PM
Intune supports three different methods to provision certificates to devices or users (SCEP/NDES, PKCS and Imported PKCS...
4,753

DEPLOYING WINDOWS 10 APPLICATION CONTROL POLICY

TanTran on Jun 25 2021 12:40 PM
All things about WDAC – Windows Defender Application Control: Planning, Deployment, Testing, Monitoring, best practice, ...
2,098

TLS and SQL Server Reporting Services: An Interesting Interaction

JarredMooney on Jun 23 2021 10:10 AM
By default, older versions of the .NET Framework may negotiate TLS/SSL independently of the Operating System. GPOs with ...
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Part 2 - You Might Want to Audit Your LAPS Permissions....

EJansen on Jun 21 2021 12:08 AM
Eric Jansen here to talk more about an interesting, but dangerous scenario that I've been seeing all too often in my tra...
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Software Installation Using Azure Policy State Change Events

Anthony_W on Jun 18 2021 12:15 AM
Azure Policy can give us the ability to audit settings inside a virtual machine using Guest Configuration. However, at t...

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Andreas_Vogt
in “Why are my users not prompted for MFA as expected?” on Oct 27 2021 06:26 AM
@Michael Hildebrand I have most likely the same issue as Pablo has, my device is "Hybrid Azure AD joined" and proper registered. When I logon to the Azure Portal, which is MFA protected or any Azure services without MFA protection, I see a wired behavior of my claim. On the portal I still get asked ...
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Jerry Devore
in Decrypting the Selection of Supported Kerberos Encryption Types on Oct 26 2021 07:51 AM
@robertroxxor - Thanks for sharing your testing and research. Many enterprises have pockets of legacy OSs (2003\XP) as well as old keytab files which were not created to support AES. If RC4 support was removed from the DCs those devices would be impacted which is why I recommended leveraging audit l...
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in Use Power Automate to Notify of Upcoming Azure AD App Client Secrets and Certificate Expirations on Oct 26 2021 02:00 AM
@Russ Rimmerman on Aug 11 you wrote you had a Logic App working and would be doing a blog about it within a week or two. I'm waiting for that blog to implement it and was hoping it would soon be ready? Thank you so much for your hard work! :)
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in ConfigMgr Bitlocker Management on Oct 25 2021 10:45 AM
Dear Naveen, The information providing is very useful. I would like to thank you for the detailed information. I have a issue in populating the recovery in Configmgr database. Presently the BitLocker environment is managed by MBAM standalone. As the product is getting retried. Planning to leverage M...
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in Secrets from the Deep – The DNS Analytical Log – Part 2 on Oct 23 2021 11:22 AM
From my understanding of things, it was developed and primarily maintained by Paul Long, but once he left the company it just kind of died.
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