Tom McElroy, Rob Mead - Microsoft Threat Intelligence Center Thanks to Stefan Sellmer, Elia Florio, Ram Pliskin, Dotan Patrich & Yossi Weizman for making this blog possible.   On the 22nd September 2020 as part of IGNITE, we released a video demo showing how to use Microsoft 365 Defender and Azure Defender (AD) in combination [...]

Organizations are increasingly moving to Microsoft Azure, and the recent rise in distributed workforces has accelerated the pace. Just a few years ago, most applications were lifted and shifted from on-premises to the cloud before companies started to favor deploying cloud-native applications. However, with the COVID-19 pandemic forcing more employees to work from home, the [...]

Matt Shadbolt (@ConfigMgrDogs) - Principal Program Manager | Microsoft Endpoint Manager   Last year, the Defender for Endpoint team and Microsoft Endpoint Manager team collaborated on a new feature called Tamper Protection.   Tamper Protection protects against malicious actors modifying the configuration of Microsoft Defender on Windows 10 clients to disable AV protection, real-time protection, [...]

New Meeting and Calling Experience in Microsoft Teams in GCC   Today, we’re pleased to share that we’re making several of the new features announced in Reimagining virtual collaboration for the future of work and learning available to users of Teams in Gov Cloud. We’re gradually rolling the features out for Teams desktop app on [...]

Originally posted May 2020 and updated September 29, 2020   Modern IT emphasizes working with people, processes, and technologies to continuously deliver business value. If you have these skills, DevOps Engineer Expert is the role-based certification for you.   As a prerequisite for this expert-level certification, earn either the Azure Administrator Associate or the Azure [...]

Continuing our Secure Score series of blog posts, this post will discuss how to manage access and permissions from an Azure Security Center perspective and walk through the respective recommendations. Access management for cloud resources is a critical function for any organization that is using the cloud. Using Role-based access control (RBAC), an authorization system [...]

In this article I will explain how to change the collation for your production Azure SQL Databases without loosing data/updates on the database with a minimum downtime.   Steps in brief:   Take a copy of the production database to a higher service tier ex: P11 on the same server. Export the database to bacpac [...]