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Azure Updates – Number 126, November 19, 2025

Azure News Technical Update — a special Microsoft Ignite Edition! This summary delivers a focused snapshot of recent developments across Microsoft’s cloud and security ecosystem. It highlights key announcements, technical articles, and feature releases related to Azure, Architecture, Compute, and Security, including updates from Microsoft Sentinel and Defender XDR. The goal is to provide a quick, actionable view of what’s new without the need to sift through multiple sources.

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Microsoft Defender for Cloud - A defender pictured as a knight with a shield defending against technology threats and badguys!

Onboard a Single Subscription with Microsoft Defender for Cloud

In today’s post we will look at a targeted way to harness the full potential of your Azure security by integrating Microsoft Defender for Cloud with Microsoft Sentinel. This powerful combination allows for advanced threat detection, seamless monitoring, and a unified view of your security posture. We want to select our Sentinel data connectors while being thoughtful. The Microsoft Defender XDR data connector is the modern connector version that we should all use in most cases; but the legacy connector is useful when we have only specific subscriptions that we want to bring into Sentinel. The older, legacy connector, requires the manual selection of the subscriptions to include in the data ingestion; it is the perfect solution if you have a tenant that you only want 2 of the many subscriptions provisioned.

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A person looking at a chalkboard with many formulas and numbers. Let's talk about cost estimation and analysis!

Defender for Cloud Cost Controls

Finding the true cost of cloud SaaS tooling is a complicated and elusive task. Microsoft has some different tools we can use to try and estimate costs that we’ll cover in this post. There are challenges in accurately estimating cloud consumption and usage costs due to day-to-day variances in that usage and other factors. Let’s explore MDC cost estimating together!

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KQL to show records and data size to estimate costs of Sentinel data storage

Responding to Incidents in Microsoft Sentinel

Join me to explore next steps once you have investigated an incident. Taking action to respond to the threat in Microsoft Sentinel provides excellent automated response capabilities that can be used to respond to threats in real-time. Let’s explore!

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AzureTracks Azure News Update 50th Edition Cake Special

Azure Updates – Number 50 – November 5, 2022

A summary update on Azure news that includes updates released from Microsoft Azure related to Azure, Architecture, Compute, and Sentinel topics. Save time digging around to find recent releases and changes. Released November 5, 2022. The magical 50th Edition of AzureTracks Azure News bi-weekly update!

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