Microsoft enforces MFA requirements for user login to Azure portal for all tenants

von GregorAllgemein, Azure Active Directory, Azure Security, Cloud, Microsoft, Zero TrustVeröffentlicht am Keine Kommentare

Password spray attacks on accounts have increased rapidly in recent months. As a result, the security risks for accounts that do not use MFA for authentication have increased significantly. Microsoft works in the past on different ways to enable MFA for all users they work with Azure and Microsoft 365. One first try was the …

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Awarded as Microsoft MVP for Azure and Microsoft Security 2024-2025

von GregorAllgemein, Azure, Cloud, Community, Microsoft, MVPVeröffentlicht am Keine Kommentare

I am pleased to announce that I have once again been recognized as a Microsoft MVP for Azure and Security in 2024-2025. This year there were some internal changes and the announcement was therefore postponed to July 10. So late Wednesday the mail came and I saw, just before my birthday, that I was again …

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Guest on Geeksprech Podcast about FinOps and/or Azure Cost Management (Governance)

von GregorAllgemein, Azure, Azure Governance, Cloud, Community, MicrosoftVeröffentlicht am Keine Kommentare

In 2023 I was at some conferences where I held a session about Azure Cost Management and I´ve discussed this topic also a couple of times with my best buddy Eric Berg. He invited me to his podcast Geeksprech where we talked and discuss what FinOps is and why in some cases it`s the same …

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Speaking at Windows Server Engineering Summit 2024

von GregorAllgemein, Azure, Azure File Sync, Azure Governance, Azure Migrate, Cloud, Community, Microsoft, Windows Admin Center, Windows Server, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows Server 2016, Windows Server 2019, Windows Server 2022Veröffentlicht am Keine Kommentare

With the announcement of the next Windows Server release, called Windows Server 2025, Microsoft decided to organize the next Windows Server Engineering Summit. The Windows Server Summit 2024 will take place March 26-28, 2024, 8 AM – 4 PM Pacific Time with many sessions around Windows Server solutions. I´m happy to be invited to hold …

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The new Azure Update Manager is GA – Part 2 – How it works and the valuable new features

von GregorAllgemein, Azure, Cloud, Microsoft, Windows Server, WSUSVeröffentlicht am Keine Kommentare

In the first part of this article (Three-big-reasons-to-migrate-to-update-manager-and-forget-the-classic-update-management-center) I dived into the improvements and reasons why Micrsoft introduce Azure Update Manager as a successor of the classic Update Management Center solution based on Azure Automation. In this part, I will explain how it works and what major improvements and new functions the Azure Update Manager …

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Bing Image Creatore - Defender for Cloud granular pricing by Bing Image Creator

Enable granular pricing for Defender for Servers P1 or P2 on specific resources within your subscription via API/Powershell

von GregorAllgemein, Azure Security, Azure VM, Cloud, Defender for Cloud, Microsoft, Windows Server, Zero TrustVeröffentlicht am Keine Kommentare

Microsoft model for a scalable Cloud Adtoption is based on the Enterprise Scale Architecture and I think this is a scalable and useful modell for every customer that uses Azure ressources. It´s based on the definition to granulary devide the workloads in different subscriptions and gives via Management Groups the possibility to group this differnent …

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Cloud Identity Summit 2023 Recap

von GregorAllgemein, Azure Active Directory, Cloud, Community, Events, MicrosoftVeröffentlicht am Keine Kommentare

Our 4th edition of the Cloud Identity Summit 2023 is over and it was a blast to meet all this great speaker and the Identity Community this year virtual and in-person in Koblenz. This year we were kindly provided with the location by the Debeka Innovation Center (DICE) which is located near the University of …

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Microsoft Defender for CSPM is GA – Information about activation, billing and new pricing information

von GregorAllgemein, Azure Security, Cloud, Defender for Cloud, Microsoft, Zero TrustVeröffentlicht am Keine Kommentare

Microsoft announced with Defender for Cloud Security Posture Management a new plan in the Defender for Cloud product family which focuses on a central view on the security posture of the customer. In this article I will give a overview about which topics Defender for CSPM covers, how it will be enabled and how the …

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Speaking at Experts Live Netherlands 2023 about Mastering Defender for Servers

von GregorAllgemein, Azure, Azure Security, Cloud, Community, Events, Microsoft, Windows Server 2019, Windows Server 2022Veröffentlicht am Keine Kommentare

I´m really happy to announce that I will speak at the Experts Live Netherlands 2023 Spring edition. The last one was the 10th annivesary edition in Fall last year. The Experts Live Netherlands is one of the biggest Experts Live conferences next to Experts Live Europe and because of the big Experts Live Europe will take …

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Azure Firewall Basic SKU is now GA

von GregorAllgemein, Azure, Azure Network, Azure Security, Cloud, Microsoft, Zero TrustVeröffentlicht am Keine Kommentare

Microsoft announces with the Azure Firewall Standard and Premium two native Firewall Services available as PaaS solution what are a great benefit to classic Firewall deployments, because of native Autoscaling Features, no need for VM Management and more. Unfortunately the price was to high for SMBs, with 900€ for the Standard and over 1200€ for …

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