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Defender for Servers without Azure Arc

12. June 2023 by Yannic Graber

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If you want to protect your servers from cyber threats, you may be relying on Defender for Servers from Microsoft, a leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant. Microsoft has now announced the direct onboarding of Defender for Servers without Azure Arc and is now officially available. Direct onboarding is a new feature that allows you to add the servers you want to protect to Defender for Servers without needing Azure Arc for Servers. In this blog post, I'll explain what this means, the benefits of this option, and who can benefit from it. I will also compare the new option with Azure Arc for Servers.

Azure ArcBox in the Cloud Adoption Framework

16. June 2022 by Yannic Graber

The developer conference "Microsoft Build 2022" has brought some news, also in the area of the Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF) in combination with Azure Arc. I would like to discuss some of these innovations, the ArcBox tool and corresponding documentation on Microsoft Docs in this article.

Certificate-based Point to Site Azure VPN through Intune

26. December 202124. November 2021 by Yannic Graber

As the business world becomes increasingly mobile, cloud services are becoming even more attractive. But what if, as is often the case, there are still dependencies on an enterprise network - on Azure, for example? The solution is obvious: a point-to-site VPN ensures communication for mobile workers. In this how-to post, I discuss how a certificate-based point-to-site VPN to an Azure VPN gateway can be automatically rolled out to mobile clients through Intune. I also discuss how certificates can be automatically issued and renewed by a Certificate Authority in combination with Intune.

Windows 365 - your computer from the Azure Cloud

31. August 20218. August 2021 by Yannic Graber

As many have suspected for years, Microsoft now offers Windows 365, a computer from the Azure Cloud. Microsoft officially announced the product at Inspire 2021 and officially launched it on the second of August 2021. Windows 365 - your computer from the Azure Cloud - has been GA and available to everyone since then. In the following, you will learn more about important aspects of Windows 365.

Integration of Azure MFA in an RDS environment

6. May 202022. April 2020 by Yannic Graber

This blog post explains how to set up Azure Multi-Factor Authentication for your On-Premises Remote Desktop Service (RDS) environment. The blog post is intended to help you understand and shows the most important steps for preparation as a step-by-step guide. Multi-Factor Authentication The concept of Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) is already widely used and respected today. Such an authentication consists of several components, not ... Read more