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Weekly Update: Saturday February 17 2024 to Saturday February 24 2024

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Azure Updates9
Tech Community19
Microsoft Security4
Azure Community13
Microsoft Learn0

Azure Updates (9 new azure updates)

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Generally available: Support for Azure VMs using Ultra disks in Azure Backuphttps://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/ultra-disk-backup-support-ga/General availability for the support for Azure VMs using Ultra disks in Azure Backup.TuesdayAzure Updates
Generally available: Support for Azure VMs using Premium SSD v2 in Azure Backuphttps://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/premium-ssd-v2-backup-support-ga/General availability for the support for Azure VMs using Premium SSD v2 in Azure Backup.TuesdayAzure Updates
Execute Azure Monitor Logs connector on exact time range provided dynamically (preview)https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/execute-azure-monitor-logs-connector-on-exact-time-range-provided-dynamically/Azure Monitor Logs connector lets you query data in your Log Analytics workspace or Application Insights components per Logic App trigger or schedule, and list or […]TuesdayAzure Updates,Azure Monitor; Log Analytics; Azure Monitor Logs; Application Insights
General Availability: Trusted launch for Azure VMs in China regionshttps://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/general-availability-trusted-launch-for-azure-vms-in-china-regions/Azure China cloud regions now support Trusted Launch Virtual Machines to improve security posture of an Azure Virtual Machine.TuesdayAzure Updates
Update records in a Kusto Database (public preview)https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/update-kusto-db/The new .update command allows you to update records (rows) in a Kusto Database (either in Azure Data Explorer or in Fabric KQL Database). This is […]WednesdayAzure Updates,adx,data-explorer,Kusto
Public Preview: Regional Disaster Recovery by Azure Backup for AKShttps://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/public-preview-regional-disaster-recovery-by-azure-backup-for-aks/Customers can now utilize Azure Backup for AKS to recover their containerized applications and data during a regional disaster scenario.WednesdayAzure Updates,Azure Portal
Public preview: Configuration-as-code customizations in Microsoft Dev Boxhttps://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/public-preview-configascode-customizations-in-microsoft-dev-box/Microsoft Dev Box, config-as-code customizations feature is now in preview. With customizations, developers can efficiently configure workstations to their exact project requirements, and admins can set […]WednesdayAzure Updates
General Availability: Azure NetApp Files Standard Network Features – Edit Volumeshttps://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/general-availability-edit-network-features-for-azure-netapp-files/Azure NetApp Files Standard Network Features – Edit Volumes GAWednesdayAzure Updates
Sending a log search alert with cross tenant target resource will no longer be supportedhttps://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/sending-a-log-search-alert-with-cross-tenant-target-resource-will-no-longer-be-supported/As of March 15, 2024, this behavior will change and sending a log search alert with a cross tenant target resource (except for the lighthouse case) […]ThursdayAzure Updates,alerts

Tech Community (19 new articles)

NameLinkDescriptionPublication DayCategory
Enable Automatic Secret rotation by triggering Azure Function from Event Grid over virtual networkhttps://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/apps-on-azure-blog/enable-automatic-secret-rotation-by-triggering-azure-function/ba-p/4055618Background:In most cases, the best authentication method for Azure services is by using a managed identity. However, there are scenarios where this may not be an […]MondayTech Community
Check This Out! (CTO!) Guide (January 2024)https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/core-infrastructure-and-security/check-this-out-cto-guide-january-2024/ba-p/4060557  Hi everyone! Brandon Wilson here once again with this month’s “Check This Out!” (CTO!) guide. Apologies for the late post this month; its been a […]MondayTech Community
How to trigger Azure Function from Event Grid over virtual networkhttps://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/apps-on-azure-blog/how-to-trigger-azure-function-from-event-grid-over-virtual/ba-p/40499841. BackgroundIn the cloud environment, it’s very important to securely protect sensitive APIs from unauthorized access and potential security threats originating from the public internet. Azure […]TuesdayTech Community
Protecting Tier 0 the modern Wayhttps://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/core-infrastructure-and-security/protecting-tier-0-the-modern-way/ba-p/4052851How should your Tier 0 Protection look like?   Almost every attack on Active Directory you hear about today – no matter if ransomware is involved […]TuesdayTech Community
Enable Change Tracking service for Arc Onboarded machines (Windows and Linux)https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/azure-arc-blog/enable-change-tracking-service-for-arc-onboarded-machines/ba-p/4062317Azure Arc simplifies governance and management by delivering a consistent way to manage your entire environment together by projecting your existing multicloud/non-Azure and on-premises resources into Azure […]WednesdayTech Community
Accelerate developer onboarding with the configuration-as-code customization in Microsoft Dev Boxhttps://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/azure-developer-community-blog/accelerate-developer-onboarding-with-the-configuration-as-code/ba-p/4062416As developers, we all know how long and tedious it can be to onboard to a new project. We have heard feedback from customers that it […]WednesdayTech Community
Enable Change Tracking and Inventory for Arc Onboarded Machines (Windows and Linux)https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/azure-arc-blog/enable-change-tracking-and-inventory-for-arc-onboarded-machines/ba-p/4062317Azure Arc simplifies governance and management by delivering a consistent way to manage your entire environment together by projecting your existing multicloud/non-Azure and on-premises resources into Azure […]WednesdayTech Community
Azure API Center: The First Lookhttps://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/apps-on-azure-blog/azure-api-center-the-first-look/ba-p/4060180Let’s say you work for a company that has a lot of APIs. You might have a few questions:   How do you manage the lifecycle […]ThursdayTech Community
Using Azure Python SDK to manage Azure Container Apps – Part 2https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/apps-on-azure-blog/using-azure-python-sdk-to-manage-azure-container-apps-part-2/ba-p/4059840  In the Part 1 of this article, we discussed the implementation of Azure Python SDK for managing Azure Container Apps while using the DefaultAzureCredentials with […]ThursdayTech Community
Quick, Check It Out Before It’s Too Late! Azure Cost Optimization At It’s Finest!https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/core-infrastructure-and-security/quick-check-it-out-before-it-s-too-late-azure-cost-optimization/ba-p/4064174  Good evening or morning to our readers! Brandon here to give you a last second heads up (sorry) on some great references for optimizing your […]ThursdayTech Community
Optimize your workloads with Azure Expert Assessment offering and jump-start remediationshttps://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/azure-architecture-blog/optimize-your-workloads-with-azure-expert-assessment-offering/ba-p/4064065In our previous Azure Architecture blog post, we discussed how the Azure Expert Assessment offering can help organizations identify the best cloud solutions for their business […]ThursdayTech Community
Azure Automation supports Azure CLI commands in runbookshttps://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/azure-tools-blog/azure-automation-supports-azure-cli-commands-in-runbooks/ba-p/4064460Azure Automation has announced support for Azure CLI commands in runbooks (preview announcement). The rich command set of Azure CLI expands capabilities of runbooks even further, […]FridayTech Community
Identify Logic Apps Consumption that are using deprecated V1 Actions and Triggers for SQL Connectorhttps://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/azure-integration-services-blog/identify-logic-apps-consumption-that-are-using-deprecated-v1/ba-p/4063550  It has been announced [Announcement] that the V1 Actions/Triggers of the SQL Connector for Logic Apps will be deprecated by end of March 2024. In this […]FridayTech Community
Quick HPC Cluster Creation with Apps using CycleCloud and EESSI: A WRF examplehttps://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/azure-high-performance-computing/quick-hpc-cluster-creation-with-apps-using-cyclecloud-and-eessi/ba-p/4062544Would you like to have a single script to quickly provision High Performance Computing (HPC) clusters with access to several ready-to-use HPC applications (WRF, GROMACS, OpenFOAM, […]FridayTech Community
Azure VMware Solution Landing Zone Review Assessmenthttps://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/azure-migration-and/azure-vmware-solution-landing-zone-review-assessment/ba-p/4064892Introduction Azure VMware Solution is a service provided by Microsoft that allows you to run your VMware workloads natively on Azure. It enables seamless migration of […]FridayTech Community
Azure Communications Services and Azure Open AI Reimagine Customer Support and Business Insightshttps://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/azure-communication-services/azure-communications-services-and-azure-open-ai-reimagine/ba-p/4064899Contact and support centers are often the first point of contact for customers who need assistance, information, or feedback from an organization. However, managing a large […]FridayTech Community
ADFSynapse Analytics – Replace Columns names using Rule based mapping in Mapping data flowshttps://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/azure-developer-community-blog/adf-synapse-analytics-replace-columns-names-using-rule-based/ba-p/4039551In real time, the column names from source might not be uniform, some columns will have a space in it, some other columns will not. For […]FridayTech Community
Running GPU accelerated workloads with NVIDIA GPU Operator on AKShttps://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/azure-high-performance-computing/running-gpu-accelerated-workloads-with-nvidia-gpu-operator-on/ba-p/4061318Dr. Wolfgang De Salvador – EMEA GBB HPC/AI Infrastructure Senior Specialist Dr. Kai Neuffer – Principal Program Manager, Industry and Partner Sales – Energy Industry   Resources […]SaturdayTech Community
Azure Functions Newsletter – February 2024https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/apps-on-azure-blog/azure-functions-newsletter-february-2024/ba-p/4057533Welcome to the February 2024 edition of Azure Functions newsletter! We’ll share the latest news for Azure Functions here on the Apps on Azure blog.   Azure […]SaturdayTech Community

Microsoft Security (4 articles)

NameLinkDescriptionPublication Day
An Obsession With Impact: The Inspiring Journey of a Dreamer That Led to a Career at Microsofthttps://msrc.microsoft.com/blog/2024/02/an-obsession-with-impact-the-inspiring-journey-of-a-dreamer-that-led-to-a-career-at-microsoft/Bruce’s story unfolds in Cincinnati, Ohio. As a young boy, he had an ambitious dream of one day becoming the President of the United States. This […]Tuesday
Navigating NIS2 requirements with Microsoft Security solutionshttps://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/2024/02/20/navigating-nis2-requirements-with-microsoft-security-solutions/The Network and Information Security Directive 2 (NIS2) is a continuation and expansion of the previous European Union (EU) cybersecurity directive introduced back in 2016. With […]Wednesday
Get the most out of Microsoft Copilot for Security with good prompt engineeringhttps://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/2024/02/21/get-the-most-out-of-microsoft-copilot-for-security-with-good-prompt-engineering/The process of writing, refining, and optimizing inputs—or “prompts”—to encourage generative AI systems to create specific, high-quality outputs is called prompt engineering. It helps generative AI […]Thursday
Announcing Microsoft’s open automation framework to red team generative AI Systemshttps://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/2024/02/22/announcing-microsofts-open-automation-framework-to-red-team-generative-ai-systems/Today we are releasing an open automation framework, PyRIT (Python Risk Identification Toolkit for generative AI), to empower security professionals and machine learning engineers to proactively […]Friday

Azure Community articles courtesy of The Cloud Pirate

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Getting a V2.0 JWT from an Azure AD B2C client credentials flowhttps://medium.com/the-new-control-plane/getting-a-v2-0-jwt-from-an-azure-ad-b2c-client-credentials-flow-984c513db907?source=rss----3a246e667a75---4I wrote this post about “Using the client credentials flow inside of Azure AD B2C”. But then somebody asked me about what version of the JWTs this […]Rory Braybrook
Enterprise Policy as Code with Azure DevOpshttps://luke.geek.nz/azure/enterprise-policy-code-azure-devopsEnterprise Azure Policy as Code (EPAC) comprises a number of scripts which can be used in a CI/CD-based system or a semi-automated use to deploy Azure […]Luke Murray
Advanced Conditional Access Policies for AVDhttps://www.ciraltos.com/advanced-conditional-access-policies-for-avd/Entra ID Conditional Access Policies are an excellent option for managing Multifactor Authentication, but there is more to it than MFA.  This video follows a previous […]Travis Roberts
.NET 8.0 Isolated Azure Functions: Binding Expressions that uses Azure App Configurationhttps://jaliyaudagedara.blogspot.com/2024/02/net-80-isolated-azure-functions-binding.htmlIn this post let’s see how we can use binding expressions in an .NET 8.0 Isolated Azure Function and how to consume the binding expression values from Azure […]Jaliya Udagedara
Azure & Oracle Cloud Interconnecthttps://aidanfinn.com/?p=23433This post will explain how you can connect your Azure network(s) with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) via the Oracle Cloud Interconnect. Background Many mid-large organisations run […]Aidan Finn
Streamlining Observability: Integrating AKS and Managed Prometheus with an Existing Grafana Workspacehttps://pixelrobots.co.uk/2024/02/streamlining-observability-integrating-aks-and-managed-prometheus-with-an-existing-grafana-workspace/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=streamlining-observability-integrating-aks-and-managed-prometheus-with-an-existing-grafana-workspaceReading Time: 2 minutes In today’s cloud-centric world, having a clear insight into your applications and infrastructure is more crucial than ever. Tools like Grafana and […]Pixel Roberts
Setting up MRTG Traffic Monitoring On Cisco / Ubiquiti devices in 15 minuteshttps://automation.baldacchino.net/setting-up-mrtg-traffic-monitoring-on-cisco-ubiquiti-devices-in-15-minutes/Traffic monitoring, do you monitor your switch ports? If you don’t I urge you to. In a past post I had a was being brute force […]Shane Baldacchino
Removing the sign-up option in Entra External ID for Customers (CIAM)https://medium.com/the-new-control-plane/removing-the-sign-up-option-in-entra-external-id-for-customers-ciam-db27be4b7490?source=rss----3a246e667a75---4In Azure AD B2C, you have different user flows, so if you don’t want the user to sign up, you simply create a sign-in-only user flow. In […]Rory Braybrook
226 – Azure Verified Modules with Jack Traceyhttps://share.transistor.fm/s/b3e107d1We’re talking about Azure Verified Modules with Microsoft’s Jack Tracey. What is AVM? How and when should you use it? Jack shares insights on the vision […]Tobias Zimmergren
SCVMM management for Azure Stack HCI 23H2https://www.thomasmaurer.ch/2024/02/scvmm-management-for-azure-stack-hci-23h2/The System Center team just shared some information on System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM) supporting the latest Azure Stack HCI, version 23H2. As you know […]Thomas Maurer
Introducing Enhanced Security in Azure Kubernetes Service: Disabling SSH Access on Cluster Nodeshttps://pixelrobots.co.uk/2024/02/introducing-enhanced-security-in-azure-kubernetes-service-disabling-ssh-access-on-cluster-nodes/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=introducing-enhanced-security-in-azure-kubernetes-service-disabling-ssh-access-on-cluster-nodesReading Time: 3 minutes In the ever-evolving landscape of cloud computing and Kubernetes management, Microsoft’s Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) continuously introduces features to bolster security and […]Pixel Roberts
Optimize and Secure Your Windows Machines With Microsoft PC Managerhttps://charbelnemnom.com/microsoft-pc-manager/This article will show you how to optimize and secure your Windows machines with Microsoft PC Manager. Introduction Microsoft PC Manager is a new utility Continue […]Charbel Nemnom
Client credential flow in Entra External ID for Customers (CIAM)https://medium.com/the-new-control-plane/client-credential-flow-in-entra-external-id-for-customers-ciam-5550ea82134b?source=rss----3a246e667a75---4Azure AD B2C supports client credentials but is not straightforward to implement. If you want to get B2C to generate the credential itself, look here. CIAM implements […]Rory Braybrook

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