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Florent Appointaire
  • Florent Appointaire
  • September 8, 2022

[Azure] Backup Your Blob Storage with Backup Center

Microsoft recently added the ability to backup your blob storage data to Azure with Backup Center. Blob is object storage optimized for storing large amounts of unstructured data, which ranges from servicing images, documents, and streaming to writing to log files and disaster recovery. Now, you can backup your blob in a few clicks.
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Brandon Lee
  • Brandon Lee
  • September 6, 2022

What is Windows Update for Business Safeguard holds

Windows Update for Business recently introduced safeguard holds, which prevents a user from updating until an issue likely to happen is fixed. Previously, admins would deter from performing regular updates for various issues. Now, the manager uses machine learning to monitor millions of unmanaged PCs for rollback during upgrading for context. It pauses updates for users at potential issue risk and offers it again once the issue is dealt with.
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Romain Serre
  • Romain Serre
  • September 1, 2022

Manage an allowed country list to connect to Azure AD

Azure Active Directory (AD) allows managing connections so that users from certain countries can’t access your services. However, sometimes, VIPs can travel to one of such countries. To address that, you can deny access to all users in a country, allow connection from that country to certain users, or establish an approval workflow to allow travel with an access package.
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Vladan Seget
  • Vladan Seget
  • August 30, 2022

VMware vSphere 8 Announced – The Details

Moving forward with its ecosystem, VMware EXPLORE has just announced the coming of vSphere 8 later this year. As per usual, there are all kinds of changes coming. This time, however, more focus is placed on management and lifecycle simplification and unification. Changes will affect services like VMware Tanzu, ESXi, vCenter Recovery, and others.
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Didier Van Hoye
  • Didier Van Hoye
  • August 25, 2022

Azure Service Endpoints & Private Link

The Private Endpoint / Private Link / Private Link Service solution was launched by Microsoft mostly because of the need for private, more secure connectivity to its Azure services. Since its launch, the number of Azure services supporting Private Link has grown, and the list today is extensive. But what are they exactly?
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Brandon Lee
  • Brandon Lee
  • August 23, 2022

What is Secured-core PC Configuration Lock?

Microsoft Secured-Core PC Configuration Lock is a new feature that enables you to prevent configuration drift of secured-core PC settings and features. Secured-Core PCs united various layers of protection to combat the growing trend of attacks on kernel drivers. The Lock makes sure the secured-core PC remains secure no matter what.
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Alex Samoylenko
  • Alex Samoylenko
  • August 18, 2022

Meeting VMware SASE and ZTNA

In the world of IT, the post-pandemic changes have brought new challenges to the table. An enterprise may employ dozens of remote workers from all over the world, but for security reasons, they may still have to establish network routes through the data center thousands of miles away. Well, thanks to VMware SASE, that’ll hardly be a problem anymore.
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Brandon Lee
  • Brandon Lee
  • August 16, 2022

What is Microsoft Pluton Security Processor?

The traditional security model implies combining different solutions to increase safety. However, cyberattacks are constantly developing and becoming more sophisticated, which makes the “layered approach” fairly obsolete. That’s why Microsoft has opted to concentrate on the hardware level instead. Meet Microsoft Pluton, a new step in the hardware chips evolution.
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Paolo Valsecchi
  • Paolo Valsecchi
  • August 11, 2022

Migrate Root CA to a new server

For Windows Server users, it’s necessary to run a current OS version to enjoy relevant support from Microsoft. However, some users, for one reason or another, may choose to run an obsolete WS version on a server. In this care, you will need to migrate your Root Certificate Authority (CA) to a newer WS version on a new server to assure everything works properly.
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