The IT infrastructure, which server is better, on premises or cloud computing has always been a major point of contention. While on premises has a more traditional structure where hardware, software and data is stored on site, cloud computing is more virtual where the data storage and software can be availed and accessed through the internet for remote work. Therefore to make a choice between the…
Microsoft's Azure Stack HCI is a hyper-converged infrastructure with virtualization, software-defined networking, and more. What separates it from the rest is it seamlessly integrates with Microsoft Azure. It's never been easier to unify your on-premises infrastructure with the power of Azure. We have listed below a few points for why you need this new & exciting hybrid solution for your business:- Azure Hybrid by design Extend…
Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) is a Desktop as a Service (DaaS) solution offered on Microsoft Azure, previously named Windows Virtual Desktop (WVD) only offers multi-session capabilities. It allows organizations to provide virtual desktops to their users without implementing and managing a Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI). There are many use cases for AVD, and it has had a lot of traction since its availability. The common use…
Starting today, customers running subscriptions included Red Hat Enterprise Linux on Amazon EC2 can seamlessly access Red Hat Knowledgebase at no additional cost. The Knowledgebase is a library of articles, frequently asked questions (FAQs), and best-practice guides to help customers solve technical issues. Previously, subscriptions included RHEL customers on AWS who had to contact AWS Premium Support in order to access Red Hat Knowledgebase. Now, AWS…
For sending mobile push notifications to Apple devices, Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) now enables token-based authentication. You may now choose between token-based (.p8 key file) and certificate-based (.p12 certificates) authentication when creating a new platform application in the Amazon SNS dashboard or API. Stateless communication between Amazon SNS and the Apple Push Notification service is enabled using token-based authentication (APNs). Because stateless communication does…
Customers may now see the health of their compute infrastructure using Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS). The customers running their workloads using Amazon ECS on Amazon EC2 or on-premises with Amazon ECS anywhere can now examine the health status of the container runtime (i.e Docker) for their container instances directly from the Amazon ECS API. This would help customers to improve application resiliency. In a very rare…
Viva Connections, part of Microsoft Viva, is your entry point to a modern employee experience. You get an all-in-one experience with the customized dashboard, the feed, and other relevant resources with the Viva connections app in Microsoft Teams mobile, web & desktop. This GA (general availability) provides you with the ability to: - Set a SharePoint home site from the SharePoint admin center Create, author, and manage a dashboard from the home site Use the…
Meeting Activities have been added to the Microsoft Teams audit log to help organizations respond more effectively to security events, forensic investigations, internal investigations, and compliance needs. This feature is available now. Admins may now view TeamsMeetingActivities in the Microsoft 365 Audit Log and analyze specific activities across Microsoft 365 services with this feature upgrade. Meeting Activities logs: MeetingDetail: All about Teams meeting – the start time, end time & URL MeetingParticipantDetail: This…
Beginning November 8, 2021, Microsoft will stop supporting Security Policy Advisor. It is recommended that you use the Office cloud policy service. Tenants who have not previously established a policy with Security Policy Advisor will have Security Policy Advisor disabled on November 8, 2021. Microsoft will automatically start moving existing client policies from Security Policy Advisor to the Office cloud policy service after January 17, 2022. Security Policy Advisor will no…
Azure Site Recovery is a Cloud-driven, highly innovative, and automated disaster recovery solution (DRaaS). Azure's native platform capabilities for high availability and disaster recovery continue to ensure the highest levels of resilience from big and small outages. To ensure high availability and disaster recovery poster. In 2018, Microsoft became the first large public cloud provider to launch a first-class cloud-native disaster recovery solution with Azure-to-Azure Disaster…
Azure Virtual Desktop is a service running in the cloud that enables your users to access the data, applications, and resources granted by the organization from any allowed and supported device, anywhere and anytime, with just an active internet connection. Data protection has been a top priority for all organisations. Now Microsoft has enabled screen capture protection for Azure Virtual Desktop. This feature prevents sensitive data…
Azure blob storage is massively scalable and secure object storage for cloud-native workloads, archives, data lakes, high-performance computing and machine learning. It is very important to protect this data from unintentional deletion. Keeping this in mind Microsoft has recently announced Immutable storage with versioning for Blob Storage is which is now generally available. It provides the capability to store data in WORM (Write Once, Read Many)…
Cloud technology has been impactful in transforming business. From cost savings to easy collaboration, the usage of the Cloud has significantly increased in the past few years. Cloud technology is so reliable when it comes to safety that 94% of businesses report significant improvements in online security after moving their data to the cloud. 91% said that the cloud makes it easier to meet government-compliant requirements.…
Earlier, the spotting of malicious content in emails was quite an easy task. However, due to the rise in technology, it has become increasingly difficult to detect this malware. One of the primary reasons for it is that nowadays, these cyber-attacks are planned and executed by professionals, who make it seem like they have been sent from a known contact– might be a friend, your work…
A hybrid cloud can be defined as a cloud computing environment that utilizes a combination of on-premises private cloud and third-party public cloud services with instrumentation between the two. Cloud service providers offer services such as data storage, work environments & security. Businesses can customize their experience to meet their demands and objectives. If we compare the hybrid cloud market to other cloud services in the…
What is a Ransomware attack? It can be defined as a malware attack that is carried out deliberately to encrypt your data and/or the whole system. In most cases, a ransom is demanded by the assailant to decrypt your data, so that you can access it again. Lately, there has been a surge in the demand for cryptocurrency as a form of payment since it is…
PowerApps is a tool that allows you to create custom apps, leveraging many of the features of the Office 365 and Microsoft platforms. Apps can be accessed via mobile devices or via the browser. What sets PowerApps apart from other offerings is that while it can be used by developers, it can also be used by non-technical employees such as business analysts. This means that it…
Microsoft 365, a world of enhanced productivity and collaboration that drives a team to achieve more together, is a complete workplace solution that provides all the apps and services a team requires to do more. Moving forward from the times when you had to arrange services for email, internal chat or collaboration, apps for the office and the operating system for the normal functioning of a…
In this blog, we will be discussing the various Microsoft Teams updates in the month of June. Meeting Updates: Presenter Mode During the past few months, this feature has been heavily promoted by Microsoft, finally you can start using this latest meeting feature that gives you an added advantage with respect to how you want to present your content & video feed to your viewers. The…
Microsoft’s virtual desktop infrastructure platform has been rebranded under the Azure name and notified of new security and management capabilities that are currently under preview. Formerly known as the Windows Virtual Desktop (WVD), the platform will now be known as Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD), Microsoft said in an official statement on the 6th of June 2021. The organization has also launched early access to several features in…