Azure SQL Database pricing and security features

What is Azure SQL Azure SQL databases are coming more and more used. They can be expanded on the go with elastic pools or you can use them inside servers like inside on-premises installations. You can have multiple SQL services…

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Moving from SfB Hybrid to Teams-only

Time to move from On-premises Hybrid to the cloud. What it takes and what could be the problems with the process? End of Life for On-premises versions Skype for Business 2015 mainstream end date was October 13, 2020. However, the…

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Access reviews for External Guest users

Access reviews let’s an external users or an internal users to verify the access of a user. Access reviews honors a time frame set but the minimum time that the reviews will be automatically ran is 1 day. The other…

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Hybrid identity and how to protect your users?

Hybrid identity in a trendy way to distribute your identity across cloud services. Identity has always been an important part in user interactions with services. It’s your unique identifier in the directory that you belong to. This theme can also…

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SharePoint tenant rename, why and how?

Finally, Microsoft finally it’s coming to the public. What went wrong when you chose a name for your tenant? Probably nothing or all. Maybe you had a consultant saying “You won’t even see it when you use custom domain names…

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Renaming Defender family and new security features

Yesterday at Ignite 2021 Microsoft announced the following renaming of their products. Microsoft Sentinel (formerly Azure Sentinel) now offers more than 100 solutions for data collection in a new content hub for easy discovery and deployment. We’re expanding fusion’s capabilities to identify previously unknown threats, integrating with Microsoft…

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Conditional Access – CAE and Resilience defaults

In the beginning of this month I wrote about CAE and and now it came Globally available. It was there but now it’s gone and the only option you have is to disable or enforce it. So what is Continuous…

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Three tiers of protection explained with use cases

The above picture is from the CISSP material and domain 3 that talks about Security Architecture and Engineering but it could be from Microsoft material also. So what are the three layers of protection? At a high level Microsoft has…

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Information governance and adaptive scopes

Adaptive scopes in now in preview and will be soon released to general availability. With adaptive scopes you can define a attribute based filtering for content. Really nice addition to filtering locations easily. How to create Adaptive scopes? Go to…

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AIP Scanner and how to dig your content

What Is AIP scanner? Azure Information Protection Scanner is combination of Azure Information Protection Viewer, SQL DB and Azure App registration. It will discover the data from File shares, SharePoint content and it also has a network discovery functionality (that…

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