You can now leverage Azure Backup solutions for all of your SQL Server workloads running within Virtual Machines, since Microsoft released this new feature global available since March 18th. A few key propositions of this solutions are: 15 minute RPO,
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Microsoft announced the public preview of email one-time passcodes (OTP) for Azure AD B2B (guest user) collaboration. This will enable B2B sharing with anyone with an email account. Email OTP enables any partner which doesn’t have (or doesn’t like to
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Beginning at January 31, 2019, Microsoft will start retiring the Virtual Academy website. One of the first retired pieces will be the ability to earn completion certificates for the courses taken. Microsoft hasn’t really invested much into the MVA website
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As of today, October 31st 2018, TLS 1.0 will no longer be supported by Office 365 First things first: This does NOT mean that software and devices using TLS 1.0 will suddenly stop working. Currently, Microsoft will not block these
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Microsoft has just released the (public preview) availability of Windows Container support on Azure App Service! This will enable developers to have more control of their code running in their containers, and extending the support for Windows-based solutions. Benefits You
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SharePoint 2019 Preview has recently been released by Microsoft! Quick summary of the cool new features and improvements: SMTP authentication support is added (previously, you could only use anonymous authentication) New OneDrive sync client (not based on the old Office
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During the Microsoft Inspire event last July, Microsoft announced three new Azure certification paths: Microsoft Certified Azure Administrator Microsoft Certified Azure Developer Microsoft Certified Azure Architect On July 16th, Microsoft released the following new exams for the first one: Azure
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Recently I’ve discovered Microsoft has added a new filter button to the upper toolbar at the Azure Portal. It allows you to filter on subscriptions on resource blades without changing the global filter settings. You can also use it to
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If you are looking for a way to find best Azure VM performance versus pricing ratio, navigating through the different Azure pricing sites and calculator can be a challenge. During the design phase of one of my latest Azure architectures
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Looking for a solution to send an email alert when a SQL agent job is running too long? Read on 🙂 Recently I did some maintenance to a SQL Server database instance, where I discovered one agent job was periodically
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