New features and insights in Azure Monitor

By Dustin Ward

Customers need full stack observability for their apps and infrastructure across Azure and hybrid environments to ensure their workloads are always up and running, for which they rely on Azure Monitor. Over the past few months, we have released many new capabilities targeting to improve native integration with Azure, enable easier onboarding at scale, support…

General availability of Azure Files on-premises Active Directory Domain Services authentication

By Dustin Ward

Today we’re announcing the general availability of Azure Files support for authentication with on-premises Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS). Since preview in February 2020, we’ve received great feedback and growing interest from our customers, especially because of increased work from home scenarios. With file shares migrated to the cloud, maintaining access using Active Directory…

Azure Firewall forced tunneling and SQL FQDN filtering now generally available

By Dustin Ward

Two new key features in Azure Firewall—forced tunneling and SQL FQDN  filtering—are now generally available. Additionally, we increased the limit for multiple public IP addresses from 100 to 250 for both Destination Network Address Translation (DNAT) and Source Network Address Translation (SNAT). Azure Firewall is a cloud native Firewall as a Service (FWaaS) offering that…