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Teams Meetings and Bypassing the Lobby

Published by Simon Angling on June 27, 2020

I was asked on Friday if we can set up a meeting whereby at a certain point of the meeting, certain members of the meeting would be asked to leave, as the second half was confidential. The obvious answer is two meetings, but the preference of the meeting organiser was…

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Unified threat detection with Microsoft Threat Protection

Unified threat detection with Microsoft Threat Protection

Published by Simon Angling on February 12, 2020

I love the security tools that come with the M365 and O365 E5 plans but I’ve always felt there were too many separate, and largely unintegrated, tools. For this reason, I was very excited when Azure Sentinel came along as Microsoft’s cloud SIEM as it can consume and analyse data…

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Increasing upload_max_size in php.ini with Azure Web Apps

Published by Simon Angling on February 11, 2020

A small puzzle for the end of last week with an Azure web app running PHP. The default upload_max_filesize for PHP on Azure Web Apps is 8,192KB and there was a need to increase it. I’ve done this 100s of times with PHP running on Apache – but wasn’t sure…

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Have Cortana Schedule your Meetings

Have Cortana Schedule your Meetings

Published by Simon Angling on February 10, 2020

One of my favourite Microsoft tools, that I find myself using more and more, is Scheduler which is currently in preview. Previously known simply as Calendar.help, Scheduler is a personal digital assistant (Cortana) that can arrange meetings on your behalf that works with Office 365, Outlook.com, or Google calendar. To…

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Allowing Transcription of Recorded Teams Meetings

Allowing Transcription of Recorded Teams Meetings

Published by Simon Angling on February 9, 2020

Transcriptions on recorded Teams meeting is a fantastically useful feature but it needs to be turned on and configured. When this feature is used and a recording is played back, one can search for particular words used in the meeting. This is really useful when you want to find that…

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Learning out Loud

Learning out Loud

Published by Simon Angling on February 8, 2020

At the recent Microsoft Ignite The Tour Johannesburg, I was introduced to MVP Nicolas Blank. During the conference we had several conversations regarding content creation with regards to blogging and his podcast; the fear of pressing publish; and imposter syndrome. During these conversations, we discussed the pace that IT is…

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Implementing Just-in-time VM Access in VM page

Published by Simon Angling on February 8, 2020

Following on from A Quick Look at Azure Just-in-Time Virtual Machine Access and subsequently looking at Implementing Just-in-time in Azure Security Center, I promised to look at implementing JIT directly from the VM page Remember that JIT is only available with Security Center Standard Tier. You can compare the Free…

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Implementing Just-in-time VM Access in Azure Security Center

Published by Simon Angling on February 7, 2020

Following on from A Quick Look at Azure Just-in-Time Virtual Machine Access (JIT), I promised to cover the implementation of JIT. In this post, I will focus on configuring JIT access within the Azure Security Center. Remember that JIT is only available with Security Center Standard Tier. You can compare…

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First look at Azure Backup Explorer public preview

First look at Azure Backup Explorer public preview

Published by Simon Angling on February 6, 2020

Yesterday Microsoft announced the public preview of Backup Explorer. Backing up VMs in a Recovery Services Vaults (RSV) is relatively easy to set up, but once you have several different vaults running across different regions, tenants or subscriptions it can become unwieldy to monitor. Backup Explorer provides a dashboard that…

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A Quick Look at Azure Just-in-Time Virtual Machine Access

Published by Simon Angling on February 5, 2020

If you are running servers in Azure, and especially if they have a public IP address, you will want to lock down incoming traffic to these VMs as much as possible. In particular, ports used for remote administration as they are a common target for hackers. As well as standard…

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