Azure Bastion is a platform-as-a-service (PaaS) jump host that you can use to connect securely to your Windows Server and Linux virtual machines (VMs) via RDP and SSH.

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Azure Virtual Desktop (formerly Windows Virtual Desktop) is a cloud-based virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI), terminal services, and remote app solution from Microsoft. After reading this article, you'll understand what Azure Virtual Desktop is, what business value it can bring to your organization, and how you can quickly set up a test environment to explore the product's capabilities. I'll walk you through its most common use cases and when NOT to consider Azure Virtual Desktop.

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The purpose of Azure service accounts is to grant permissions to resources in Azure. There are three types of Azure accounts: service principals, managed identities, and user accounts employed as service accounts.

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I was working on a ticket this week in which a user would try to join a meeting, and Microsoft Teams would freeze for several minutes, waiting for the audio and video to initialize. To solve the issue, I had to change the Teams permissions to allow access automatically to the cam and the microphone. In this post, I will show you how you can change the cam permissions for any kind of conferencing app for your entire organization.

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AWS Secrets Manager enables you to safely store secrets, such as passwords or access keys. This way, you don't have to store these secrets as plaintext in your applications. With the help of IAM AssumeRole, you can then access the secrets in Secrets Manager without exposing your AWS keys in cleartext.

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In your work in Microsoft Azure, should you focus your energies on Azure PowerShell, Azure CLI, or both? This lesson presents a comprehensive comparison of the two primary scripting languages in the Azure cloud.

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If you have a Microsoft 365 business subscription, you can use the Microsoft 365 Apps admin center to configure Office remotely. In addition, you can receive reports about your Office installations.

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Because of its relatively low cost and flexibility, Azure Storage is a great target for cloud-based backup. Learn the most efficient ways to perform blob and file data backup in Azure.

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