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How to Create a Windows Virtual Desktop Tenant with Windows Virtual Desktop

Last Update: Feb 22, 2023

In the second part of this series, I show you how to create a Windows Virtual Desktop tenant.

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Getting Started with Azure Virtual Desktop: Understanding Azure Virtual Desktop

Last Update: Feb 22, 2023

In the first part of this series, I look at the basics of Microsoft’s new Windows Virtual Desktop service.

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Security

Securing Azure Virtual Desktop with Azure Active Directory Conditional Access

Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) is a Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) to provide access to Windows 10 and Windows 11 desktops and applications virtually anywhere. It’s a solution hosted by Microsoft, which makes it secure by design, even though there is a lot of responsibility on the customer to ensure services are secure. In this article, I will…

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Getting Started With Azure Active Directory

Last Update: Feb 21, 2023

Azure Active Directory makes running one of the most commonly used and useful directory services easy to do and with minimal maintenance and overhead

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Cloud Computing

Cloud Repatriation: Is It a Risk For Microsoft Azure?

Cloud repatriation appears to be one of the new IT hot topics of 2023. For companies that invested time and money into transferring some of their workloads to the cloud, why would it now make sense to bring some of them back to on-premises resources? Well, I’ll explain in this article why cloud repatriation is…

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Microsoft 365 Apps

What is Microsoft 365? Everything You Need to Know

Last Update: Feb 08, 2023

Office 365 is a Software as a Service (SaaS) product from Microsoft that provides subscribers with the Microsoft Office desktop apps for Windows and macOS, and online business services like Microsoft Teams, SharePoint, OneDrive for Business, and Exchange Online. But in this article, I’m going to be answering the question what is Microsoft 365? Microsoft…

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Microsoft 365 Outage Caused by WAN Router IP Address Change, Says Microsoft

Last week, Microsoft confirmed a multi-hour outage that prevented users from accessing Azure, Microsoft Teams, and other Microsoft 365 services. The company has since published a preliminary post-incident report to update customers about the root cause of the issue. Microsoft explained that the disruption was caused by a router IP address change during a planned…

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Cloud Computing and Security

Microsoft Announces New Multibillion-Dollar Investment in OpenAI

Microsoft has announced a new multibillion-dollar partnership with OpenAI. The company explained that the deal marks the beginning of the third phase of its existing partnership with the ChatGPT-maker, following two previous investments in 2019 and 2021, respectively. In a press release, Microsoft highlighted that this new partnership should enable both companies to create AI-powered…

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Cloud Computing

Microsoft Patches Four SSRF Vulnerabilities in Azure Cloud Services

Microsoft has patched vulnerabilities in four different Azure cloud services. The security flaws could enable attackers to perform a server-side request forgery (SSRF) attack to gain unauthorized access to cloud resources. The security vulnerabilities were first discovered by researchers from Orca Security between mid-October and mid-December last year. The flaws affect various Microsoft cloud services…

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Cloud Computing

Microsoft to Expand ChatGPT Capabilities to Azure OpenAI Service

Microsoft has announced the general availability of its Azure OpenAI service. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella also unveiled its plans to launch OpenAI’s ChatGPT chatbot as a service to make it accessible to more customers. Microsoft launched its Azure OpenAI service back in November 2021. It enables businesses to integrate powerful AI tools (such as GPT-3.5,…

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