Tag Archives: Azure

Azure outage shuts down Norway's government sites (Feb. 20, 2025)

Posted on 2025-02-24 by guenni

[German]On February 20, 2025, there was a major disruption to the Microsoft Azure Cloud in Norway. The affected services were unavailable for hours. Norwegian authorities and the government were among those severely affected, as they had moved their services to … Continue reading →

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Microsoft Azure requires MFA since October 15, 2024 – postponement possible

Posted on 2024-10-24 by guenni

[German]Microsoft wants administrators to use multi-factor authentication (MFA) to log in to Azure from October 15, 2024, although a delay of up to 5 months is possible. Advertising

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Microsoft will end support for TLS 1.0 and 1.1 in Azure on October 31, 2024

Posted on 2024-10-20 by guenni

[German]Briefreminder for administrators – who certainly have the topic on their agenda: Microsoft will end support for TLS 1.0 and 1.1 in Azure on October 31, 2024. Advertising

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Warning: MPIP / AIP Client for Microsoft Azure destroys files

Posted on 2024-09-03 by guenni

[German]A German blog reader has just pointed out a bug in the Microsoft MPIP-AIP client for Purview Information Protection that can cause files on the OneDrive online storage to become corrupted. If you don't have a backup, these files are … Continue reading →

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Microsoft Authenticator required although MFA already set up?

Posted on 2024-08-29 by guenni

[German]Microsoft has started to implement multifactor authentication for its cloud offerings. Among other things, the Microsoft Authenticator app is used as a second factor for authentication. A blog reader got in touch because he ran into a problem with a … Continue reading →

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From Sept. 1, 2024 no more license allocation in Entra ID Admin Center/Microsoft Azure Portal

Posted on 2024-08-12 by guenni

[German]A small addendum for administrators who previously assigned their licenses via the Microsoft Entra ID Admin Center and/or the Microsoft Azure Portal. This will be a thing of the past from September 1, 2024 – Microsoft is consolidating license management … Continue reading →

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Microsoft requires MFA for all Azure users; it begins in July 2024

Posted on 2024-06-19 by guenni

[German]Brief information that should have been known since mid-May 2024. Microsoft wants to improve the security of Azure user accounts. Redmond is therefore making multifactor authentication (MFA) mandatory for all Azure user accounts. Implementation is set to begin in July … Continue reading →

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Tenable discovers critical vulnerability in Microsoft Azure; company won't patch (June 2024)

Posted on 2024-06-06 by guenni

[German]The security experts at Tenable have discovered a vulnerability in Microsoft Azure that they classify as critical. However, Microsoft has announced that it does not intend to patch this vulnerability, which affects more than ten Azure services. This means that … Continue reading →

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Strange cloud access to collector.azure.*

Posted on 2024-05-14 by guenni

[German]I'm posting here an observation from readers that relates to Microsoft's Azure and Microsoft 365 services. Since mid-April 2024, there have been cyclical accesses to various domains that list "collector" as a subdomain. Virustotal probably has no complaints, so it's … Continue reading →

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Azure Entra ID: Microsoft confirms issues with Single Sign On (SSO)

Posted on 2024-05-13 by guenni

[German]Administrators have been complaining for some time about sporadic problems with Single Sign On (SSO) under Microsoft's Azure Entra ID. Users are then sporadically unable to log in to their Microsoft 365 apps. Now there seems to be confirmation from … Continue reading →

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