Guide to Deploy Gen2 VMs in Azure

Guide to Deploy Gen2 VMs in Azure 1

This week Microsoft announced the public preview of support to deploy gen2 VMs in Azure. Gen2 VMs have been around since Windows Server 2012 R2 for on-premises Hyper-V deployments. However, there are some serious limitations during the Azure preview. Let’s look at the benefits first. Why Should I Deploy Gen2 VMs in Azure? For security…

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Guide to Deploy Office 365 ProPlus in Windows Virtual Desktop

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I deployed Windows Virtual Desktop (WVD) four times the day it came out and shared my thoughts about it. One of the first questions I received was how to deploy Office 365 ProPlus in Windows Virtual Desktop. That’s because if you run the web installer on any multi-user computer with Terminal Services, you’ll receive the…

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Step-by-Step Guide to Deploy Microsoft Sentinel

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Note to readers: this guide was created in 2019 and is being kept online as an example of the process. The product (now Microsoft Sentinel) has evolved over the years, and a well-built, best-practice deployment is not a “15 minute guide” level of effort. Please reach out to us if you’re interested in using Sentinel…

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Infused Innovations Earns Microsoft DevOps Gold Competency for their Azure DevSecOps Platform: Infused Threat Protection

Infused Innovations Earns Microsoft DevOps Gold Competency for their Azure DevSecOps Platform: Infused Threat Protection 6

We are proud to congratulate the Infused Innovations engineering team for their continued demonstration of expertise across the Microsoft cloud ecosystem. As Infused Innovations expands its service offerings into new areas, we have taken a three-pillar approach to our internal processes: automate for agility & consistency, deploy to the cloud for availability, and make sure…

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Step-by-Step Guide to Securing Windows Virtual Desktop in Azure with Conditional Access and MFA

Step-by-Step Guide to Securing Windows Virtual Desktop in Azure with Conditional Access and MFA 7

One of my biggest complaints about using Azure AD P1 to issue Azure MFA challenges on a traditional RDS deployment via RADIUS authentication is that it issues an MFA challenge on every login. That’s almost as frustrating as trying to understand Microsoft Licensing. Fortunately, securing Windows Virtual Desktop in Azure with Conditional Access and MFA…

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Step-by-Step Guide to Deploy Windows Virtual Desktop in Azure

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Windows Virtual Desktop (WVD) was finally released to public preview GA (UPDATED 9/2019), so here’s your step-by-step guide to deploy Windows Virtual Desktop! For those of you that have been living under a rock (or spending time with your friends and families), WVD is Microsoft’s new Desktop-as-a-Service offering to provide Windows 10 virtual desktop infrastructure…

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Troubleshooting Code Challenges and SQL with Azure App Insights

Troubleshooting Code Challenges and SQL with Azure App Insights 9

Sometimes we are engaged to solve tough infrastructure performance problems. We’ve all been in situations where the infrastructure team is blaming the developers, the developers are blaming the infrastructure, and the product or project manager is frustrated because nothing is getting solved. Fortunately, tools like Azure App Insights can quickly identify performance issues with SQL…

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Top 10 Security Best Practices with Microsoft 365 in 2021

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Welcome to my initial blog post for our Secure Modern Workplace series! At Infused Innovations, one of our core security philosophies is that human minds can no longer keep up with the pace of cyberattacks. We must leverage automation through artificial intelligence to respond to security threats. With that in mind, let’s look at some…

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