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Highly Available, Secure, and Convenient: Leveraging Azure Blob Storage for your PKI Needs, Part 1

For as long as public key infrastructure (PKI) has existed, it has relied on certificate revocation lists (CRLs) and authority information access (AIA). CRLs are a fundamental part of most PKIs that allow clients to be 100% sure a certificate has not been revoked. AIA is a certificate extension that provides information on how to […]

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Three Reasons to Use Azure Automation to Run Your Scripts 

Azure Automation is a cloud-based service that can help you run scripts; configure, update, and manage operating systems; and manage your IT asset inventory. This blog post highlights three key advantages of using Azure Automation to schedule and run scripts. Native Cloud Capabilities Running PowerShell scripts in Azure Automation instead of on premises offers several

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Virtual Machine Generation ID with Active Directory Domain Controllers

Active Directory (AD) domain controllers (DCs) have been around since Windows 2000. At that time, virtualization was in its infancy and almost every server was physical. And many of those servers weren’t even housed in a typical datacenter or server closet. Virtualization started to take off in the early to mid-2000s. It enabled the use

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Securing On-Premises Access Is Easier Than You Think: Utilizing the Entra Application Proxy

In a previous blog post , we discussed taking advantage of Entra (formerly Azure Active Directory) Application Proxies to allow access to on-premises applications without a dependency on traditional tools such as a VPN. That blog includes a few great points that should be highlighted again. For example, in most organizations an Entra Application Proxy:

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