This category describes the major cloud platforms such as AWS/Azure/Google Cloud/OpenShift
In times past, CI/CD Pipeline software releases were scheduled in terms of weeks or even years before they were released to production. Subsequently, with the transformation agenda of DevOps, it is easier for software teams to release features in smaller batches that are often scheduled in days or weeks. However, some teams even deliver software…
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SonarCloud is an application that you can use to build robust and safe applications. With this application, you can use it to rapidly assess your code health to know where your code stands at every level of the software development life cycle (SDLC). This is an application that you can use to build clean code,…
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Just-in-Time (JIT) Access is one of the features of Azure Security Center. Azure Security Center by Microsoft is a solution that gives unified security management across hybrid cloud workloads. It offers threat protection for data centers within both cloud workloads and on-premises. The platform also works with hybrid clouds that aren’t a part of Azure….
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Azure Cloud Shell is an interactive, authenticated, browser-accessible shell for managing Azure resources. It provides the flexibility of choosing the shell experience that best suits the way you work, either Bash or PowerShell. Whereas it also provides the flexibility of choosing either working with Bash or PowerShell. You can directly navigate to the shell account from…
Azure Key Vault is a cloud service for securely, storing and accessing secrets. A secret is anything you want to strictly control access to, such as .B. API keys, passwords, certificates, or cryptographic keys. Vaults support the storage of software and HSM-based keys, secrets, and certificates. Managed HSM pools that support only HSM-based keys. Azure…
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In this article, we shall discuss how to provision Azure Resources using Azure Az PowerShell Cmdlet from Cloud Shell. Provisioning Azure resources using Azure Az PowerShell Cmdlet from Cloud Shell is an essential aspect of developing and managing applications on the cloud platform. Please see VMSA-2022-0026: An arbitrary file read vulnerability in VMware Aria Operations,…
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Azure AD Connect is a tool for connecting on-premises identity infrastructure to Microsoft Azure AD. The wizard deploys and configures prerequisites and components required for the connection, including sync and sign-on. Azure AD Connect encompasses functionality that was previously released as Dirsync and AAD Sync. Here is a guide on how to synchronize your on-premises…
Transport Layer Security (TLS) is a protocol that provides communications over a computer network, typically between a website and a browser. for your information. The primary goal of TLS is to provide a secure channel between two communicating peers and the only requirement from the underlying transport is a reliable, in-order data stream. Specifically, the…
Azure AD Connect is a tool for connecting on-premises identity infrastructure to Microsoft Azure AD. The wizard deploys and configures pre-requisites and components required for the connection, including sync and sign-on. Azure AD Connect encompasses functionality that was previously released as Dirsync and AAD Sync. Azure AD Connect as described in this guide is used to…
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Single sign-on (SSO) is an identification method that enables users to log in to multiple applications and websites with one set of credentials. SSO streamlines the authentication process for users. After configuring Pass-Through Authentication (PTA) as discussed in the hyperlink, you may run into several user sign-in issues. In this guide, you will learn how to…
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In this article, we shall discuss how to fix the Synchronization service scheduler is suspended until the setup wizard is closed. Azure AD Connect sync which is now referred to Entra ID Connect sync synchronize changes occurring in your on-premises directory using a scheduler. Please see “BitLocker Windows Update Shutdown or Reboot option behavior“, and…
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When it comes to hybrid AD setup, we have to work with whole different types of issues than on-premises AD environments. Azure AD is a managed service by Microsoft, so there is nothing we can do to manage its health. Therefore, most of the hybrid AD issues are related to connectivity, Directory sync, or authentication…
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Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) Pass-through Authentication allows your users to sign in to both on-premises and cloud-based applications by using the same passwords. Pass-through Authentication signs users in by validating their passwords directly against on-premises Active Directory. This error was because the program did not install correctly. You can read more on Pass-Through Authentication…
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