Protect Your Organization’s Assets: Disaster Recovery with Azure Backup

Azure Backup can be used to back up not only an organization’s critical cloud workloads but also all types of on-premises resources, even if they are running on Azure Stack HCI or Azure Stack Hub. Before explaining how Azure Backup can be set up and used for disaster recovery (DR), I want to get a…

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UAC elevation via Local Admin "pin auth" not present for Azure AD Joined Windows 11 [migrated]

Is there any way to elevate via local admin pin in UAC prompt for non-admin Azure AD user on Windows joined to Azure Active Directory by making a change in group policy or registry to achieve desired behavior
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What is Azure Data Studio?

Azure Data Studio is a database management tool from Microsoft. It offers a modern and user-friendly UI for performing several database operations and building customizable dashboards. In this article, I’ll explain how Azure Data Studio works, how it differs from SQL Server Management Studio, and how you can download and install it on your PC….

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Microsoft Criticized Over Handling of Critical Power Platform Vulnerability

A critical Microsoft Power Platform vulnerability exposed authentication data and other secrets, but the tech giant has been accused of handling it poorly.
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Open-source penetration testing tool BloodHound CE released

SpecterOps released version 5.0 of BloodHound Community Edition (CE), a free and open-source penetration testing solution that maps attack paths in Microsoft Active Directory (AD) and Azure (including Azure AD/Entra ID) environments. It is available fo… Continue reading Open-source penetration testing tool BloodHound CE released

What’s the tradeoff of storing a connection string vs the password as a secret?

This is for an app service + database I am pushing up to Azure. I am using Key Vault + Managed Identity for the secrets. I have several connection strings in the secrets to ApplicationInsights, etc.
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