Microsoft SQL Server is the backbone of many businesses, but when it comes to high availability, which path should you take: Always On Availability Groups (AG) or Failover Cluster Instances (FCI)?
There is no perfect solution to bypass MFA for specific users when introducing Network Policy Server (NPS) Extension for Azure MFA, but there is a great workaround to address it.
Microsoft is making strides in cloud-enabling on-premises IT infrastructure with the integration of Azure Arc advancements and multi-cloud capabilities into the latest SQL Server 2022 release. This offers organizations increased scalability, flexibility, and security for hybridizing their on-premises workloads.
Ransomware is a global threat, and the best answer to it is to have immutable backups. Veeam’s Hardened Backup Repository is an efficient and cost-effective solution, but it can require some effort to configure. StarWind simplifies the process, allowing you to easily set up an immutable backup repository with just a few clicks.
It’s never too much when it comes to cybersecurity. Microsoft recently released a feature for its Azure Active Directory (AD) that allows you to diversify authentication methods for different user groups. This feature is used in conditional access to apply customized policies to the right people.
Azure Bastion is a useful service that allows connecting to a VM using only your browser and access to the Azure Portal. However, it is possible to create a shareable link to the required VM and provide access directly to a user.
VMware App Volumes is a part of the VMware Horizon‘s Apps on Demand feature, which allows delivering apps to virtual desktops on demand. Instead of mounting VMDK with apps, dynamic mounting of the volumes starts only when you use an application. Now, Apps on Demand for published app environments extends this functionality to the apps published by Horizon Apps, Citrix Virtual Apps, and Microsoft Remote Desktop Session Host (RDSH)/terminal.
Updating your various Windows systems can be quite a chore. Microsoft knows that as well. Luckily, it added new features to its endpoint cloud-based management solution, Intune, which allows you to prioritize important security updates. It’s a great new addition that you can test out right now.
Despite vendors like Microsoft automating many processes in their solutions, including network configuration, vulnerabilities may still threaten your security. For example, you still need some fine-tuning when routing traffic via an App Gateway to a private backend application in an Azure VWAN environment.
People like to oversimplify the comparison of any two things, but this is not as apparent when it comes to software. VMware Imager Fling and Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT) can both automate VM image deployment. However, configuration and requirement differences reveal that they are, in fact, more suitable for different use cases.
During Microsoft Ignite 2022, the leading vendors announced many Azure features that align with the latest VMware vSphere updates. Mix and match both worlds to suit your business and technology needs.