Hello Azure security community! Yuri Diogenes (CSI Enterprise Mobility and Azure Security team) here. Recently we updated our Microsoft Antimalware for Azure Cloud Services and Virtual Machines article and had some interesting discussions regarding Azure antimalware on ARM VMs. While our original article has many examples for antimalware deployment using PowerShell, scripts for ARM VMs…
Month: February 2016
TWEAKING IIS LOGS USING ADVANCED LOGGING
Recently I was working with one of my customers where he wanted to tweak IIS log field values. The customer was having a load balanced environment consisting of 2 web servers having a F5 load balancer in the front. The requirement was to log the original client IP under “c-ip” field instead of “X-FORWARDED-FOR” in IIS logs. The reason being he was using some kind of reporting tool which parses IIS logs and can only understand “c-ip” not “X-FORWARDED-FOR” field.
Free ebook: Deploying Windows 10: Automating deployment by using System Center Configuration Manager
We’re happy to announce the release of our newest free ebook, Deploying Windows 10: Automating deployment by using System Center Configuration Manager (ISBN 9781509301867), by Andre Della Monica, Russ Rimmerman, Alessandro Cesarini, and Victor Silveira.
Teaching Coding for Beginners; Let’s get started with some Australian Curriculum examples
In Part 3, we will address examples of coding elaborations in the Australian Curriculum, to show practical examples of how teachers can address these elaborations. Click on the following links for part one and part two both also written by Matthew Jorgensen, Teacher Ambassador in the Microsoft Australia education team. Part 3 – That’s…
Thoughts on Azure Stack and Multi-Cloud Strategy
What is Azure Stack? Is it truly Azure-In-A-Box? Why should one use it? You know that it makes financial sense to move to the cloud. Cloud, if used correctly, saves you money. However, you do not feel ready to take the plunge yet. There may be several reasons, including the perception of security, compliance…
Teaching Coding for Beginners; Resources to get started
In part 2 of this series, Matthew Jorgensen presents some of visual programming tools for anyone wondering how to I start teaching coding for beginners. All tools and resources presented below are easy for teachers to master and always engaging for students. The list of resources and tools below are by no means complete but…
Use SonarQube quality gates to control your Visual Studio Team Services builds
Note: a more recent documentation is available from Analyzing with SonarQube Extension for VSTS/TFS In Visual Studio Team Services and Team Foundation Server you can cause a build to fail if the code does not meet the conditions imposed by a SonarQube quality gate. This post describes how to configure this when using SonarQube 5.3…
Teaching Coding for Beginners
In this 3 part series, Matthew Jorgensen will present some reasons for everyday teachers to start delivering ‘coding’ in the teaching and learning process. Then, he will demonstrate a number of visual programming tools that are mostly free, easy for teachers to master and always engaging for students. Finally, he will address examples of…
Free ebook: Introducing Windows 10 for IT Professionals, Technical Overview
We’re happy to announce the release of our newest free ebook, Introducing Windows 10 for IT Professionals, Technical Overview (ISBN 9780735696976), by Ed Bott.
You receive “Installation cannot be performed” when trying to install Microsoft BizTalk 2013 R2 Accelerator for HL7
Symptom You get the following error message when trying to install Microsoft BizTalk 2013 R2 Accelerator for HL7: “Error: Installation cannot be performed because the BizTalk server has not been configured or user account is not a member of the BizTalk Server Administrators group.” Possible causes 1. Confirm that user executing Microsoft BizTalk 2013…