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Standardizing VM Configurations: Leveraging Custom Image Templates in Azure Virtual Desktop

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Azure Virtual Desktop is a service that allows you to run Windows desktops and applications in the cloud. One of the benefits of Azure Virtual Desktop is that you can customize your session host virtual machines (VMs) with the applications and settings that you need for your organization.

However, creating and maintaining custom images can be a tedious and time-consuming process. You have to install and configure the software, run sysprep, capture the image, and distribute it to different regions or galleries. What if there was a simpler way to do this?

How to backup your Azure VMs using Premium SSD v2 disks

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When your production workloads are hosted on Azure VMs using Premium SSD v2 disks, you might be wondering how to back up your data and ensure business continuity in case of disasters or ransomware attacks. In this blog post, we’ll guide you through enabling Azure Backup for your Azure VMs using Premium SSD v2 disks, and we’ll explore the benefits and limitations of this solution.

How to Backup Your Azure VMs with Ultra Disks

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If you are looking for a way to protect your Azure VMs using Ultra disks, you might be interested in the new feature that is available in public preview: Azure Backup support for Ultra disks.

Ultra disks are a type of Azure Managed Disks that enable customers to run mission critical, I/O demanding, enterprise applications on the cloud, such as SAP HANA, top tier SQL databases, and NoSQL databases. They offer high performance, low latency, and granular scalability.

With Azure Backup support for Ultra disks, you can now enable backup on your Azure VMs running on Ultra disks and ensure business continuity for your virtual machines. You can also recover from any disasters or ransomware attacks by restoring your disks from backup.

Microsoft Security Copilot: a game-changer for security professionals

Heyy Everyoneee,

I want to share with you some exciting news about a new security product from Microsoft: Microsoft Security Copilot.

Microsoft Security Copilot is a generative AI assistant that helps security professionals detect, investigate, and respond to threats faster and more effectively. It uses OpenAI’s GPT-4 large language model and Microsoft’s security-specific model to provide intelligent guidance based on 65 trillion daily signals from Microsoft’s global threat intelligence!!!

Microsoft Azure Load Testing

If you’re developing a web application or a service that needs to handle high traffic and user demand, you might want to consider using Microsoft Azure Load Testing. This is a cloud-based service that lets you simulate real-world scenarios and measure how your application performs under different loads and conditions.

Azure site Recovery higher churn support

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In this blog post, I want to share some exciting news about Azure Site Recovery (ASR), the service that helps you protect your applications by orchestrating replication, failover and recovery of virtual machines and physical servers.

One of the challenges that some customers face with ASR is the high churn rate of their workloads, which means that they have frequent changes in the data or configuration of their machines. This can result in increased replication traffic, storage consumption and recovery point objectives (RPOs).

Azure Bastion: Shareable links

If you are using Azure Bastion to access your virtual machines in Azure, you might have wondered if there is a way to share the connection with others. For example, maybe you want to collaborate with a colleague on troubleshooting an issue, or you want to demonstrate something to a client or a stakeholder. Well, the good news is that Azure Bastion now supports shareable links for RDP and SSH sessions!

Shareable links are unique URLs that you can generate from the Azure portal when you connect to a VM using Azure Bastion. The link will allow anyone who has it to join the same session as you, without needing to have access to the Azure portal or the VM itself. You can also set an expiration time for the link, so that it will become invalid after a certain period.

DR secondary free with SQL Server on Azure VM

Hey, did you know that you can get disaster recovery (DR) secondary for free with SQL Server on Azure VM? That’s right, you can use Azure Hybrid Benefit to save up to 49% on your SQL Server license costs and get a free passive replica for high availability and DR purposes. This is a great way to protect your data and applications from unplanned downtime and disasters, without breaking the bank.

Azure Event Grid: SAP S/4HANA events

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In this blog post, I want to share with you how you can use Azure Event Grid to handle events from SAP S/4HANA, the leading enterprise resource planning (ERP) system. SAP S/4HANA events are business events that occur in the system, such as creating a sales order, posting a journal entry, or changing a customer address. These events can be useful for integrating SAP S/4HANA with other applications, such as analytics, workflow, or notification services.

Windows Admin Center for Azure Virtual Machines

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Today I want to share with you a cool feature that I recently discovered: you can now use Windows Admin Center in the Azure portal to manage the Windows Server operating system inside an Azure VM. This means you can access a bunch of useful tools for managing your VM without having to use Remote Desktop or PowerShell. You can do things like view performance metrics, install updates, configure firewall rules, manage files and more.