Category: Security

Azure Virtual Desktop, Security

How to Secure Your Azure Virtual Desktop with Entra ID Token Protection

Introduction In today’s digital landscape, the protection of virtual environments is paramount for IT administrators. One major security concern is the potential theft of sign-in tokens, which can grant attackers access to Windows 365 Cloud PCs or Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) session hosts without needing a password. This blog post explores the powerful features of …

Security

Microsoft Security Compliance Manager released

Overview Take advantage of the experience of Microsoft security professionals, and reduce the time and money required to harden your environment. This end-to-end Solution Accelerator will help you plan, deploy, operate, and manage your security baselines for Windows® client and server operating systems, and Microsoft applications. Access the complete database of Microsoft recommended security settings, …

Hyper-V, Security, Virtualization

Download the Hyper-V Security Guide

The Hyper-V security guide has just been released. You can download it here: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd569113.aspx About This Solution Accelerator The Hyper-V Security Guide provides IT professionals with guidance, instructions, and recommendations to address key security concerns about server virtualization. Microsoft Hyper-V technology allows consolidation of workloads that are currently spread across multiple underutilized servers onto a …

Security, Windows Server 2008

Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer 2.1 released

Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer has been released. New features include: Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 compatibility New revised user interface 64-bit support Improved Windows Embedded support Compatibility with Microsoft Update, Windows Server Update Services 2.0 and 3.0, the SMS Inventory Tool for Microsoft Update (ITMU), and SCCM 2007.   Download here: Microsoft Baseline Security …