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Azure Service Principles VS App Registrations VS Enterprise Applications

I was recently working through an activity where I need to run a PowerShell script with and Azure AD service principle. It can be somewhat confusing how all the pieces come together. When working in the portal it's not really transparent what's going on under the hood.

The Pieces

  • Resource owne...

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Deploying LAPS with intune (sort of)

Managing local admin passwords on devices

Microsoft Local Administrator Password Solution (LAPS) sets a unique complex password for the local administrator account in all domain-joined devices. This local administrator account password set by Microsoft LAPS will automatically change according to p...

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Managing Windows Updates in Intune (Part 2)

Previously we talked about update rings. Microsoft has recently released 2 new update policy types: Feature Updates and Quality Updates. Both of these policies extend the configuration options provided by update rings.

Feature updates for Windows 10 and later (public preview):

Feature Update...

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Managing Windows Updates in Intune (Part 1)

Managing updates with Intune

These policies get really into the weeds of Windows update types. I would recommend brushing up on Windows Update Types. Currently there are 3 policy types for managing windows updates.

  1. Update Rings.
  2. Feature Updates.
  3. Quality updates.

Update rings

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Azure App Service Networking

Overview

The Azure app service is a compute platform tailored for providing a front end for web apps. In terms of abstraction it lies in between a VM and Server-less options. That's sort of a nebulous description. To simplify the target user is more of a web developer who would rather focus on dev...

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