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Previously in public preview, Microsoft Authenticator security features are now Generally Available for your organisation! So, how will this affect you? 

Microsoft has now released the general availability of BYOIP (Bring Your Own IP) to all regions of Azure! This is exciting news because existing public IPs can be kept and reused when planning on-premises migrations to the cloud. You might want to do this to either keep an established IP reputation or to suit the dependencies of customers. 

Previously, only those with on-premises environments and Active Directory could manage Chrome by importing ADMX templates (Google’s administrative templates) and using group policies. There was no option to perform the same for those who have a fully managed or hybrid cloud with Intune.

Private links – What are they? Why do you need them? How do you implement them? 

Modern-day problems require modern-day solutions. The way we work has changed, with remote and hybrid work becoming the norm, and this especially rings true for development teams. It’s important to ensure developer workstations can keep pace and be flexible so as not to interrupt their productivity. 

Another new service introduced this year so far by Microsoft, Azure DNS (Domain Name System) Private Resolver is a cloud-native, DevOps-friendly, and highly available service. 

Sometimes, you need the ability to trigger a DevOps build or release pipeline when a condition is met through a piece of code or from outside of the Azure DevOps environment.

Containers provide users with a consistent environment to develop and run applications. They act as a software bundle – containing an application’s code as well as its related files, libraries, and dependencies – allowing you to run applications seamlessly across various environments and infrastructures. To summarise, containers make it easy to develop and deploy your application to different environments without many headaches.

ExpressRoute Traffic Collector, is a service that enables deep visibility into traffic within ExpressRoute Circuits. The Traffic Collector aggregates flow logs from ER circuits and forwards them to Azure tools such as Log Analytics for network traffic analysis, visualization, and insights. Depending on your termination of hardware on premises where visibility of this traffic may not be passed through an aggregation device which has sufficient logging capabilities, this allows you to achieve that visibility natively within Azure Log Analytics workspaces.