Tutorials
Looking for tutorials for Microsoft Azure and Microsoft 365? You can find all our tutorials in this archive.
Microsoft Entra ID Protection: Protect Identities, Detect Risks and Mitigate Threats
Protecting our identity is crucial. The threats we face online are becoming increasingly sophisticated and refined, making the security of our identity a central challenge. Microsoft Entra ID Protection offers a robust solution to address these challenges.
Windows Hello for Business: Enhanced Security with Multi-Factor Unlock
Passwords alone no longer provide sufficient protection against data loss and unauthorized access. This is where Windows Hello for Business comes into play. This modern authentication method from Microsoft enables companies to authenticate their employees more securely using biometric data such as facial recognition or fingerprints, along with additional unlock factors like PIN codes or trusted signals. Furthermore, Windows Hello for Business supports multi-factor unlock, combining several authentication factors to make device access even more secure. This multi-factor unlock offers a significant security advantage by integrating multiple layers of protection, thereby significantly reducing the risk of security breaches.
The Guardian of Azure Services: Azure Service Health
An essential aspect of using cloud services is ensuring availability and performance. Outages or performance problems have a significant impact on today’s business processes and lost revenue, image damage and angry customers. Azure Service Health is a free service from Microsoft Azure. The service provides real-time information in a dashboard about the status and performance of Azure services. The service continuously monitors resources and proactively informs about service problems.
Create proximity placement groups in Azure
Low network latency between virtual machines generally contributes to optimized performance. The proximity placement group feature in Azure ensures that virtual machines within the same proximity placement group are physically located in the same datacenter. Proximity placement groups in Azure are particularly suitable for services and workloads (ERP, databases, real time services) with low latency requirements.
Seamless Upgrade of Windows Server on Azure: Best Practices and Step-by-Step Guide
Microsoft Azure supports in-place upgrade to Windows Server 2019 and Windows Server 2022. All data, server roles and settings are taken over in the process. For a successful in-place upgrade there are a few requirements. This guide shows how to successfully perform a direct upgrade to a newer Windows Server version.