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…
1 CommentA 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…
Leave a CommentTranscriptions 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…
Leave a CommentFollowing 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…
Leave a CommentFollowing 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…
Leave a CommentMahala.ms allows people between the ages of 8 – 24 to sign up for Office 365 free of charge. From http://mahala.ms South Africa youth will be able to get Microsoft licenses for the Microsoft Office 365 suite and 5TB OneDrive cloud-based storage services. The package includes Word, PowerPoint, OneNote, Outlook…
1 CommentYesterday 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…
Leave a CommentIf 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…
Leave a CommentAn interesting issue arose today regarding attendance registers for meetings conducted on Microsoft Teams. One of the obvious advantages of Teams is that it is not necessary for everyone to be in the same building, however from a regulatory standpoint most meetings I attend need an attendance register as proof…
1 CommentIt’s been a rewarding time recently as I’ve worked towards achieving some of the Microsoft role-based certifications. I find that by focusing on achieving certifications it gives one insight deeper insight and makes one engage in deeper areas of technology that maybe one wouldn’t otherwise need day-to-day. I focused mostly…
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