Category: General
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The first Microsoft Azure Stack Technical Preview is coming this week
Today Mike Neil, Corporate Vice President, Enterprise Cloud, announced that the first technical preview of Microsoft Azure Stack will be available on January 29. -> https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/announcing-the-first-technical-preview-of-microsoft-azure-stack/ You can sign up to get a notification when it is available and I highly recommend to do so! -> https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/overview/azure-stack/ Furthermore I recommend to have a look at…
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Azure Security Center – keep your Azure VMs up to date
Actually the Azure Security Center is in public preview, but nevertheless it is a very useful extension to the existing Azure services. -> https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/azure-security-center-now-available/ First of all you have to define the security policy for your subscription. Afterwards the Azure Security Center will install the data collection agents on your Azure VMs. Now you have…
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Azure IaaS ARM Template – Enable Boot Diagnostics per Default
One great thing Microsoft had introduced last year to the Azure platform was the boot diagnostics capability. Looking at an ARM template you can add the following lines to the VM definition to activate the boot diagnostics for your VM per default. “diagnosticsProfile”: { “bootDiagnostics”: { “enabled”: “true”, “storageUri”: “[concat(‘http://’,parameters(‘newStorageAccountName’),’.’, parameters(‘blobStorageEndpoint’))]” } } Have a…
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Azure IaaS ARM Template – Installing BGInfo VM Extension
When you want to install the BGInfo VM extension during the Azure VM deployment through an ARM template, then you have to add the following lines to your template. { “apiVersion”: “2015-06-15”, “type”: “Microsoft.Compute/virtualMachines/extensions”, “name”: “[concat(variables(‘vmName’),’/’, parameters(‘vmBGInfo’))]”, “location”: “[parameters(‘location’)]”, “dependsOn”: [ “[concat(‘Microsoft.Compute/virtualMachines/’, variables(‘vmName’))]” ], “properties”: { “publisher”: “Microsoft.Compute”, “type”: “BGInfo”, “typeHandlerVersion”: “2.1”, “settings”: {}, “protectedSettings”:…
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Using Operations Management Suite to detect RDP access attempts
The malicious IP detection functionality of OMS can not only detect the outgoing communication from your Azure VM to a malicious target. -> http://blogs.technet.com/b/momteam/archive/2015/09/10/find-out-if-your-servers-are-talking-to-a-malicious-ip-address-with-operations-management-suite.aspx It can also detect incoming connection attempts to your Azure VMs. For example you would like to know who tries to access your Azure VM via RDP. Then you should give…
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Hardware requirements for Azure Stack Technical Preview (POC) released
What an early Christmas present! Yesterday Microsoft has released the hardware requirements for the upcoming Microsoft Azure Stack Technical Preview. What other informations get we beside the hardware requirements? That the Azure Stack Technical Preview will be a single box installation. Our goal is to enable you to experience the Azure Stack Technical Preview in…