Category Archives: Microsoft Azure

Azure Cosmos DB

Azure Cosmos DB is Microsoft’s globally distributed, multi-model database. With the click of a button, Azure Cosmos DB enables you to elastically and independently scale throughput and storage across any number of Azure’s geographic regions. It offers throughput, latency, availability, … Continue reading

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Firewall Ports for Windows Azure Pack

Windows Azure Pack for Windows Server is a hybrid cloud solution that brings Windows Azure technologies to your datacenter. It lets Microsoft customers offer a rich, self-service, multi-tenant cloud on your datacenter’s hardware at no additional cost. Windows Azure Pack … Continue reading

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Firewall Ports & Protocols for Hybrid Identity

This is a technical reference on the required ports and protocols for implementing a hybrid identity solution. Use the following illustration and refer to the corresponding table. Table 1 – Azure AD Connect and On-premises AD This table describes the … Continue reading

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Why Microsoft Azure?

Microsoft Azure is Microsoft’s cloud-based application platform for developing, managing, and hosting applications off-site. Azure has made significant advances over the years. It now offers a set of features and capabilities far surpassing its competitors. The following are some important … Continue reading

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What is Microsoft Azure?

Microsoft Azure is a comprehensive set of cloud platform that enables you to quick build, deploy and manage applications across a global network of Microsoft-managed datacenters. It provides cloud based servers, networks, storage and services. Azure deliver many of services. … Continue reading

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Monitoring Partner Solutions for Azure Security Center

After you’ve implemented some partner solutions, Azure enables you to monitor those solutions. The Partner solutions tile on the Security Center blade lets you monitor the health status. The screen capture below shows the Security Center overview blade with the Partner … Continue reading

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Partner Solution Health for Azure Security Center

To view the health of your partner solutions, select the Partner solutions tile. A blade opens displaying a list of your partner solutions connected to Security Center, as seen in the screen capture below: From this screen, select a partner … Continue reading

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Partner Solution Recommendations for Azure Security Center

Security Center is integrated tightly with third-party solutions from Azure partners. When it comes time to implement a solution to a Security Center recommendation, you often have several choices. You can implement one of the Microsoft solutions. Or, you can … Continue reading

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Remediation Recommendations for Azure Security Center

After reviewing the list of available recommendations, you can click on the individual line items to take further action. For example, if you click on the line item to Install Endpoint Protection, you will be presented with all of the … Continue reading

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Recommendations for Azure Security Center

As Security Center collects data from your Azure resources, it will periodically analyze the contents of that data and present you with recommendations to address potential security vulnerabilities. On the Security Center blade, the Recommendations tile displays the total number … Continue reading

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