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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

Update...

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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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Azure App Service - How to locate Inbound and Outbound addresses

Portal

The Inbound, Outbound, and Possible Outbound addresses can be located in the Azure portal by selecting your web app and clicking the Properties blade:

Azure cli

The Virtual IP address can be retrieved with an nslookup command:

  • nslookup .azurewebsites.net

The Outbound a...

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How to Automate adding Azure App Service Outbound IP's to Azure MySQL

Connecting App Service to MySQL In order for the web app to talk to MySQL we need to either allow all traffic to MySQL or add the outbound IP's for the web app.We can manually add addresses into the MySQL under the Networking blade. The problem we run into with the App Service, is that we need to i...

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