Microsoft Entra IDTenant & Directory Administration

How to protect Azure VM using Azure Backup

June 11, 2024
Azure Virtual Machines (VMs) offer a scalable and cost-effective compute platform in the cloud. However, data loss remains a constant threat. This article explores how safeguarding your Azure VMs with Azure Backup can mitigate this risk. What is Azure Backup? Azure Backup is a cloud-based backup service that safeguards critical data in your Azure VMs. It creates recovery points, which are…
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Microsoft Entra IDTenant & Directory Administration

What is Azure Key Vault?

June 11, 2024
In today’s digital landscape, keeping your information secure is a top priority. As organizations transition towards cloud-based solutions, ensuring the protection of secrets such as cryptographic keys, passwords, and certificates has become increasingly challenging. Azure Key Vault acts as a one-stop solution for secrets, key, and certificate management. Why You Should Use Azure Key…
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Microsoft Entra IDTenant & Directory Administration

How to create Azure Custom VM Image

June 11, 2024
Custom VM images in Microsoft Azure offer a dynamic way to streamline virtual machine (VM) deployments and establish consistency across your cloud infrastructure. These images act as pre-configured templates containing your desired operating system, applications, and settings. Think of them as personalized templates for your virtual machines, enabling faster deployments with pre-configured…
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Microsoft Entra IDTenant & Directory Administration

How to configure device compliance policies in Microsoft Intune

June 11, 2024
Microsoft Endpoint Manager (MEM) offers a range of tools and services for unified security, management, and monitoring of end devices such as laptops, desktops, mobile phones, virtual machines, servers, and more. This endpoint management service operates both on-premises and in the cloud. It provides several advantages such as reduced costs, flexible experiences for employees, and streamlined…
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Microsoft Entra IDTenant & Directory Administration

How to protect confidential data using Azure Information Protection

June 11, 2024
Organizations handle a vast amount of confidential data daily. Ensuring the security and privacy of this data is essential. Azure Information Protection (AIP), a cloud-based solution from Microsoft, empowers organizations to classify, protect documents and emails by applying labels, and control access to sensitive information across various platforms. What is Azure Information Protection? Azure…
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Microsoft Entra IDTenant & Directory Administration

Simplify data classification using Azure Information Protection

June 11, 2024
Organizations across all industries handle sensitive information, making data protection a top priority. With the sheer volume of data created daily, manually labeling each item with an appropriate sensitivity label is impractical. Thankfully, Azure Information Protection (AIP) offers a solution with automatic data classification. This blog will guide you through setting up AIP automatic data…
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Microsoft Entra IDTenant & Directory Administration

How to use Azure Information Protection to track shared documents

June 6, 2024
Imagine sharing a confidential task with your team. You need to know who has access, where they are, and what they’re doing with the information. Azure Information Protection (AIP) acts as your mission control for sensitive documents. It meticulously tracks document access, logging details like who accessed it, when, and where. This way, if an unauthorized user tries to peek, you’re…
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Microsoft Entra IDTenant & Directory Administration

How to secure your emails using Azure Information Protection

June 5, 2024
Organizations handle many confidential documents daily, from sensitive financial information to proprietary business strategies. A concerning problem in many such organizations is the weak security measures that leave sensitive data vulnerable to unauthorized access. Emails and documents are often circulated in plain text, accessible by anyone within the organization, regardless of their role or…
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Microsoft Entra IDTenant & Directory Administration

How to synchronize employeeHireData

June 4, 2024
Microsoft Entra Lifecycle Workflows allow organizations to automate user provisioning, access governance, and lifecycle management tasks within Azure Active Directory (Azure AD). A crucial aspect of this automation involves synchronizing user attributes from on-premises Active Directory (AD) to Azure AD. This blog explores how to synchronize the “employeeHireDate” attribute, an…
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Microsoft Entra IDTenant & Directory Administration

How to use Azure AD for disaster recovery

June 1, 2024
Business continuity and disaster recovery (BCDR) planning is essential for any organization to bounce back from disruption. While Azure Active Directory (AD) itself isn’t directly used for disaster recovery, it plays a supporting role, particularly when recovering your on-premises AD. BCDR implementation can be done with Microsoft Azure’s native disaster recovery as a service (DRaaS)…
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