This is part three of three in a series of how to add additional security to an Azure Reference Architecture for SharePoint 2016. The design principles apply to any Azure architecture where there are servers in Azure with data. Part one I offered 35 specific  recommendations for improving security. Part two I demonstrated how to use […]
Microsoft added two more Azure reference Architectures (RA) this month to the ones already published. One for SAP and one for SharePoint. The one for SharePoint is quite extensive, it is a SP 2016 HA farm using a SQL AO cluster. Â They also made the ARM template available on GitHub so you can easily […]
In this post, I demonstrate how to use System Center Configuration Manager to evaluate clients for STIG compliance. The process at a high level is: Download the corresponding STIG compliance SCAP files. Convert the downloaded files into a CAB file for import. Import the CAB file into Configmgr Deploy the Configuration Baseline to the corresponding […]
ZDNet ran a story on this yesterday with an update today. But this looks like it is confirmed at this point. No additional cost to the EMS license for this, which is interested and not sure if I believe that part. http://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-adds-advanced-threat-analytics-to-its-enterprise-mobility-suite/ “Update (June 23): Microsoft has removed the blog post about EMS getting Advanced […]
Microsoft added the ability to allow Android devices to register in Azure Active Directory. Â This also allows them to take advantage of SSO for apps that use Active Directory Auth Library to AD. Â In the article is also states that policy support for all Azure AD connected apps is in the works which then allows […]
Apple Plays Apple introduced the iPhone 6’s this week and spent time talking about the size, display and CPU speed but it also spent an exorbitant amount of time, marketing dollars and effort to push a new feature most people could really care less about, Apple Pay. What is Apple Pay? Apple Pay is a payment […]