Many Exchange admins woke up today and seeing that Exchange is no longer processing emails. This is because Microsoft Filtering Management Service is stopping because it cannot handle the new date format. The reason for this is because Microsoft is using a signed int32 for the date and with the new value of 2.201.010.001 is […]
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UPDATE Post: 29/12/2021 In 2021 we have seen a higher increase in ransomware attacks, where companies are faced with their systems and data becoming encrypted and forcing them to pay a ransom to get access back to their data. Seeing an increased number of organizations targeted daily. You can monitor much of the activity just by watching
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NB: Updated constantly Here is a summary of what Microsoft had of information https://msrc-blog.microsoft.com/2021/12/11/microsofts-response-to-cve-2021-44228-apache-log4j2/ * Over a period of the last 4 months, the library has been downloaded 28.6 million. * Ingenuity, the Mars 2020 Helicopter mission, is powered by it. * On Friday alone there were about 840,000 endpoints that were running a vulnerable instance based
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Last week, Microsoft had an issue with an ISP in Norway which affected the availability of Azure and Office 365 services for Norwegian customers without it being reflected in any of the Azure Status Pages. Therefore, I wanted to provide an “outside” view of the availability of the different Azure services to give me a
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How does your data get encrypted within Microsoft Azure? How can I ensure that my data is safe on a cloud provider? Lately, I’ve been working with a lot of customers asking about how we can ensure that data is encrypted and to what extent data is encrypted? When moving to a cloud-based environment and
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For customers that are using Azure Automation in many cases have been using it to build runbooks to automate against Azure environments (using a built-in AzureRunAsAccount) which is automatically created using the Azure Portal wizard. This creates a service principal in Azure Active Directory and gets by default contributor access to the environment. This configuration,
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Many might remember the day that Windows Servers stood still in Microsoft Azure because Microsoft made a change to the backend artifact repository for the Microsoft Azure agent. Now many are not that familiar with what that agent does and how it integrates into the Azure Fabric Controller, so I decided to do a little
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The big battle! between Citrix MCS vs PVS which has been an ongoing battle for some time for the Citrix admins. Now since I have been working mostly with Cloud the last years I didn’t get into that debate since Citrix has only supported MCS in Cloud (until now) … Therefore, in this blog post,
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I was recently in a scenario where we needed to do some testing to integrate Service Now into Cloud App Security (MCAS) which I now know as Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps. But anyway… MCAS uses API integration to collect logs, user activity from supported SaaS services, such as Service Now which is one of
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Today Microsoft Ignite 2021 Fall edition kicked off and I’ve tried to summarize some of the biggest new capabilities that have been released. NOTE: All announcements from Microsoft Ignite har grouped together in this Ignite Book of News, which you can read here –> Microsoft Ignite Book of News Microsoft Azure Azure Cognitive Services new preview
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