AzureTracks

Practical Azure and Microsoft 365 security walkthroughs

Andrew

  • Update PowerShell Using PowerShell

    Update PowerShell Using PowerShell

    Need to update to the latest PowerShell version? Check out how to make this your easiest upgrade yet! Remember to test any existing code you have published or run once-and-a-while; then update your VMs and systems that you don’t touch often, that way everything is on the same version.

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  • Move Azure Resources to a Different Region – Azure Resource Mover – Part 2

    Move Azure Resources to a Different Region – Azure Resource Mover – Part 2

    Continuing our Azure Resource Mover tutorial, we will pick up at the Initiate Move stage. This is Part 2 of 2 articles using Resource Mover to move a VM and associated bits to a new region. We are moving our demo VM from West Europe to East US, and it’s been going really well! We…

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  • Video – Setting up for a Demo with Azure CLI

    Video – Setting up for a Demo with Azure CLI

    Join me for a start to finish Azure CLI walk-through of creating resources to use for testing or doing a demonstration in Azure. I create a Debian and Windows Server VM in about 5 minutes then we clean everything up when we’re done. Let’s build some Azure resources together and see just how easy and…

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  • Move Azure Resources to a Different Region – Azure Resource Mover

    Move Azure Resources to a Different Region – Azure Resource Mover

    Today we’ll take a look at how to use Azure Resource Mover to move a virtual machine with some supporting resources to a different region. Reasons to do this are to reduce cost of resources, move a VM to a region where other services it connects to are located, or because you need to have…

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  • Setting up for a Demo with Azure CLI

    Setting up for a Demo with Azure CLI

    I’ve been asked a few times to share how I setup for doing a demo using different Azure resources. So, I’ll share my first way of setting up — Azure CLI. Today, we’ll walk through some of the steps I run and how to save it to do it all again next time. This is…

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  • Microsoft Cloud Identity – MFA in Microsoft Cloud

    Microsoft Cloud Identity – MFA in Microsoft Cloud

    Today Microsoft Cloud Quick Fix chats with Andrew Lowes from AzureTracks about Multi-factor Authentication in the Microsoft Cloud and recent finding that 78% of Microsoft 365 administrators do not have multi-factor authentication (MFA) activated!

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  • Microsoft Identity – What’s the Difference with AD on Premises to Azure AD?

    Microsoft Identity – What’s the Difference with AD on Premises to Azure AD?

    In this installment of Microsoft Identity tidbits, Ryan of @MSCQF and I speak about Azure Active Directory and how it’s different from Windows Server Active Directory. We look at some of the confusion around hosting a virtual machine in Azure that is running Windows Server Active Directory and using Azure AD Connect to extend that…

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  • What Happens when Azure AD Connect Breaks?

    What Happens when Azure AD Connect Breaks?

    Today we talk about what happens when Azure Active Directory Connect breaks. We discuss common causes, fixes, where to find some guidance, and some of the issues around a broken connection between your on-premises Windows Server Active Directory and Azure Active Directory. Join Ryan @MSCQF and myself for a short discussion and learn a bit…

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  • Azure Active Directory – Self Service Password Reset

    Azure Active Directory – Self Service Password Reset

    Today I continue our video podcast series with Ryan McKay from Microsoft Cloud Quick Fix where we chat about Microsoft Cloud Identity Basics and specifically Microsoft Azure AD Connect and the capabilities it enables with other Microsoft technologies. Join us while we explore some of the features and requirements for Self Service Password Reset…

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  • October 2020 – Who turned out the lights on Microsoft Cloud?

    October 2020 – Who turned out the lights on Microsoft Cloud?

    Today we explore some sources of Microsoft Cloud status information, what happened this past week with some incidents in the Microsoft Cloud, and we talk about the rapid deployment of features into cloud services over the last 2 quarters. Join us for a few minutes as we discuss the Azure and Microsoft 365 status consoles…

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