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AWS Update:- Amazon EC2 now supports access to Red Hat Knowledgebase

Posted on November 16th, 2021 by admin@mismo2023

Starting today, customers running subscriptions included Red Hat Enterprise Linux on Amazon EC2 can seamlessly access Red Hat Knowledgebase at no additional cost. The Knowledgebase is a library of articles, frequently asked questions (FAQs), and best-practice guides to help customers solve technical issues. 

Previously, subscriptions included RHEL customers on AWS who had to contact AWS Premium Support in order to access Red Hat Knowledgebase. Now, AWS has partnered with Red Hat to provide one-click access to Knowledgebase for all subscriptions included RHEL customers. Customers can access Knowledgebase content in one of the three ways: by clicking on a link inside the Fleet Manager functionality in AWS System Manager, by using sign-in with AWS option on Red Hat Customer Portal, or via a link provided by AWS support. 

This Red Hat Knowledgebase feature on Amazon EC2 is available in all commercial AWS Regions today except the two regions in China.

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AWS Update:- Amazon SNS now supports token-based authentication for APNs mobile push notifications

Posted on November 16th, 2021 by admin@mismo2023

For sending mobile push notifications to Apple devices, Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) now enables token-based authentication. You may now choose between token-based (.p8 key file) and certificate-based (.p12 certificates) authentication when creating a new platform application in the Amazon SNS dashboard or API. 

Stateless communication between Amazon SNS and the Apple Push Notification service is enabled using token-based authentication (APNs). Because stateless communication does not require APNs to look up certificates, it is faster than certificate-based communication. You had to renew the certificate and the endpoint once a year while using .p12 certificates. You may now lessen your operational burden by eliminating the need for yearly renewals by employing a .p8 key file. Amazon SNS uses token-based authentication to deliver messages to mobile applications for platform applications produced with .p8 certificates. 

You can use token-based authentication for APNs endpoints in the following AWS regions where Amazon SNS supports mobile push notifications: US East (N. Virginia), US West (N. California), US West (Oregon), Asia Pacific (Mumbai), Asia Pacific (Seoul), Asia Pacific (Singapore), Asia Pacific (Sydney), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Europe (Frankfurt), Europe (Ireland), and South America (São Paulo). 

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AWS Update:- Amazon ECS now adds container instance health information

Posted on November 16th, 2021 by admin@mismo2023

Customers may now see the health of their compute infrastructure using Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS). The customers running their workloads using Amazon ECS on Amazon EC2 or on-premises with Amazon ECS anywhere can now examine the health status of the container runtime (i.e Docker) for their container instances directly from the Amazon ECS API. This would help customers to improve application resiliency.  

In a very rare scenario, problems might arise with the host infra or Docker runtime which will eventually prevent new containers from starting or may even affect the existing containers. Amazon ECS automatically monitors the runtime of containers for responsiveness on the customer’s behalf. Customers can use the ECS Describe-Instances API with the include Health Status option to view the health information for their Amazon ECS Tasks. 

Customers can check the health of all their Amazon ECS container instances that are running version 1.57.0 or above of the Amazon ECS container agent. This version is pre-installed with the Amazon ECS-optimized AMI version 20211103. Amazon ECS is available in all AWS regions that are open to the public.  

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Microsoft 365 Update:- Viva Connections is now generally available!

Posted on November 16th, 2021 by admin@mismo2023

Viva Connections, part of Microsoft Viva, is your entry point to a modern employee experience. You get an all-in-one experience with the customized dashboard, the feed, and other relevant resources with the Viva connections app in Microsoft Teams mobile, web & desktop.  

This GA (general availability) provides you with the ability to: – 

  • Set a SharePoint home site from the SharePoint admin center 
  • Create, author, and manage a dashboard from the home site 
  • Use the new Dashboard and Feed web parts on the home site 
  • Brand the Viva Connections app for the desktop and mobile experiences for Android and iOS 
  • Use Video news links to communicate announcements 

It is to be noted that the Viva connections require admin configuration in the Teams admin center to enable as it is in the “Blocked” state by default. Once the home site in SharePoint is generated & the dashboard gets published, the Teams admin can enable & customize the Viva connections app in the Teams admin center. This feature is available now. 

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Microsoft 365 Update:- Meeting Activities in Teams Audit Log

Posted on November 16th, 2021 by admin@mismo2023

Meeting Activities have been added to the Microsoft Teams audit log to help organizations respond more effectively to security events, forensic investigations, internal investigations, and compliance needs. This feature is available now. 

Admins may now view TeamsMeetingActivities in the Microsoft 365 Audit Log and analyze specific activities across Microsoft 365 services with this feature upgrade. 

Meeting Activities logs: 

MeetingDetail: All about Teams meeting – the start time, end time & URL 

MeetingParticipantDetail: This will talk about the participants of a meeting, including the user ID of each participant, the time each participant joined the meeting, and the time each participant left the meeting.  

You can visit this link to understand the Audit logs better.  

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Microsoft 365 Update:- Microsoft is retiring Security Policy Advisor in the Microsoft 365 Apps admin center

Posted on November 16th, 2021 by admin@mismo2023

Beginning November 8, 2021, Microsoft will stop supporting Security Policy Advisor. It is recommended that you use the Office cloud policy service.  

Tenants who have not previously established a policy with Security Policy Advisor will have Security Policy Advisor disabled on November 8, 2021. 

Microsoft will automatically start moving existing client policies from Security Policy Advisor to the Office cloud policy service after January 17, 2022. Security Policy Advisor will no longer be available to tenants after the transition is complete. 

It is to be noted that the existing tenants will not be affected by this transition for now, but it is somehow recommended to shift to office cloud policy at the earliest to avoid any issues in policy management.  

Microsoft will migrate your policies for you if you don’t move them yourself during the designated January migration timeframe. Any changes to the security policies that your users are subjected to are not anticipated.  

To know how to migrate to Office cloud policy service, click here.

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Azure Update:- Global Disaster Recovery via Azure Site Recovery

Posted on November 15th, 2021 by admin@mismo2023

Azure Site Recovery is a Cloud-driven, highly innovative, and automated disaster recovery solution (DRaaS). Azure’s native platform capabilities for high availability and disaster recovery continue to ensure the highest levels of resilience from big and small outages.

To ensure high availability and disaster recovery poster. In 2018, Microsoft became the first large public cloud provider to launch a first-class cloud-native disaster recovery solution with Azure-to-Azure Disaster Recovery. This allowed customers to replicate and failover your applications from one Azure region to another, on the same continent. But this has left some industries which requires by their local legal regulations to keep data within national boundaries so, in 2020, Microsoft extended support to include within-region disaster recovery with Zone-to-Zone Disaster Recovery.

Many big MNCs which are huge and run business globally and hosts applications across continents and have teams spread out globally needs something big. In August 2021 Microsoft made global disaster recovery via Azure Site Recovery generally available. Now replication of application across continents is possible. Now with an enormous global network of azure regions failover to any region of your choice is possible.

This offering completes the native-public cloud disaster recovery portfolio of zone-to-zone disaster recovery, within-continent disaster recovery, and global disaster recovery. With a few simple clicks, you can replicate your application anywhere in the world.

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Azure Update:- Screen Capture Protection for Azure Virtual Desktop

Posted on November 15th, 2021 by admin@mismo2023

Azure Virtual Desktop is a service running in the cloud that enables your users to access the data, applications, and resources granted by the organization from any allowed and supported device,  anywhere and anytime, with just an active internet connection. Data protection has been a top priority for all organisations. Now Microsoft has enabled screen capture protection for Azure Virtual Desktop.

This feature prevents sensitive data from being captured on the client endpoints. When this feature is enabled, remote content will be automatically blocked or hidden in screenshots and screen shares. Also, the Remote Desktop client will hide content from malicious software that may be capturing the screen. This feature protects the client endpoint from functionalities such as PrtScn, Snipping Tool and third-party tools installed on it. This feature is available for all Azure Virtual Desktop customers at no additional cost.

The screen capture protection feature is configured on the session host level and enforced on the client. Only clients that support this feature can connect to the remote session. Windows Desktop client (for full Desktops only), macOS client version 10.7.0 or older (for RemoteApp and full Desktops) supports screen capture. If a user tries to connect with an unsupported client to the protected session host the connection will fail with error 0x1151.

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Azure Update:- Immutable Storage with versioning for Blob storage

Posted on November 15th, 2021 by admin@mismo2023

Azure blob storage is massively scalable and secure object storage for cloud-native workloads, archives, data lakes, high-performance computing and machine learning. It is very important to protect this data from unintentional deletion. Keeping this in mind Microsoft has recently announced Immutable storage with versioning for Blob Storage is which is now generally available. It provides the capability to store data in WORM (Write Once, Read Many) states, which means data once written becomes non-erasable and non-modifiable. Also, the retention period can be set to protect the files to protect the file from deletion within that period. It also provides the capability to apply legal holds which make data non-erasable and non-modifiable until the hold is removed.

It provides the capability to set immutable policy on account, container, or object level. Additionally, Immutable protection is allowed for all past and current versions of any blob. A previous version is always immutable meaning it cannot be modified. However, a previous version can be deleted so a time-based retention policy protects it against deletion while the policy is in effect. Immutable storage is free of charge with a versioning policy and legal hold. You just have to pay for storage and transaction like before.

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How is Cloud transforming Industries?

Posted on November 10th, 2021 by admin@mismo2023

Cloud technology has been impactful in transforming business. From cost savings to easy collaboration, the usage of the Cloud has significantly increased in the past few years.

Cloud technology is so reliable when it comes to safety that 94% of businesses report significant improvements in online security after moving their data to the cloud. 91% said that the cloud makes it easier to meet government-compliant requirements. (Source: Salesforce)

Predictions show that spending for enterprise cloud platforms will increase by 14% in 2024. (Source: Gartner)

We will witness an increase in these figures in the coming years as many tech-savvy firms and industry executives have recognized the advantages of cloud-computing technology.

Let us now discuss how Cloud technology has transformed the following Industries: –

  • Healthcare – The healthcare sector requires cloud solutions that enable them to deliver automation and efficiency on high-value workflows, and because they work with large volumes of data – both structured and unstructured – they require deep data analysis capabilities to turn insights into actions while adhering to strict data protection and security guidelines. The healthcare industry places a greater emphasis on improving patient’s experience, at the same time ensuring the highest level of data security, protection, and privacy.
  • Financial Services – When it comes to introducing innovative technologies, the financial services industry has always been cautious. The global pandemic, however, has amplified this trend because of the paradigm change from physical to digital. To remain relevant to their clients, the industry must develop digital solutions. To deliver differentiated consumer experiences, increase staff cooperation and productivity, manage risk, and update core systems, leading cloud services providers are delivering customized solutions such as specific templates, APIs, and multi-layered security and compliance coverage. Financial services firms, such as banks, can use these capabilities to generate a holistic view of their customers with more insight and a specific plan of action, integrate digital collaboration into their process workflows, and improve insights to help prevent fraud.
  • Retail – The retail business is expected to evolve at a lightning speed as customer behavior, taste, and preferences continue to evolve. Since customer data, inventory management, supply chain, and distribution network are all integral parts of this industry, they require solutions that bring together data from different sources and uniquely connect experiences across the end-to-end shopper journey, all while delivering more relevant personalized experiences and optimizing operations for long-term profitability. Retailers can provide more focused and relevant customer recommendations and notifications, increase their fulfilment options, simplify payment processing, and benefit from full fraud prevention by using industry-specific cloud solutions.

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