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Nominations are now open for this year’s Microsoft Partner of the Year Awards!
Celebrated annually, these awards recognize the incredible impact that Microsoft partners are delivering to customers and celebrate the outstanding successes and innovations across Solution Areas, industries, and key areas of impact, with a focus on strategic initiatives and technologies. Partners of all types, sizes, and geographies are encouraged to self-nominate. This is an opportunity for partners to be recognized on a global scale for their innovative solutions built using Microsoft technologies.
In addition to recognizing partners for the impact in our award categories, we also recognize partners from over 100 countries/regions around the world as part of the Country/Region Partner of the Year Awards. In 2024, we’re excited to offer additional opportunities to recognize partner impact through new awards – read our blog to learn more and download the official guidelines for specific eligibility requirements.
Visit the Microsoft Partner of the Year Awards page to see the full list of awards and to submit your nomination in advance of the April 3, 2024, deadline. To ensure you create a strong entry, we encourage you to explore the provided resources and expert advice on the nomination process. We look forward to receiving another amazing set of nominations this year and are excited to celebrate another round of incredible partner innovations!
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Become a Microsoft Defender Vulnerability Management Ninja
Do you want to become a ninja for Microsoft Defender Vulnerability Management? We can help you get there! We collected content with multiple modules. We will keep updating this training on a regular basis.
In addition, we offer you a knowledge check based on the training material! Since there’s a lot of content, the goal of the knowledge checks is to help ensure understanding of the key concepts that were covered. Lastly, there’ll be a fun certificate issued at the end of the training: Disclaimer: This is not an official Microsoft certification and only acts as a way of recognizing your participation in this training content.
Module 1- Getting started
What is Microsoft Defender Vulnerability Management
Prerequisites & permissions
Supported operating systems, platforms and capabilities
Compare Defender Vulnerability Management plans and capabilities
Interactive Guide – Reduce organizational risk with Microsoft Defender Vulnerability Management
Defender Vulnerability Management trial
Defender Vulnerability Management add on trial
Defender Vulnerability Management standalone trial
Frequently asked questions
What’s new in Public Preview
Module 2 – Portal Orientation
Onboard to Defender Vulnerability Management
Dashboard overview
Device inventory
Software inventory
Browser extensions assessment
Certificate inventory
Firmware and hardware assessment
Authenticated scan
Module 3 -Prioritization
Vulnerabilities in my organization
Exposure score
Microsoft Secure Score for Devices
Assign device value
Security recommendation
Mitigate zero-day vulnerabilities
Module 4- Remediation
Remediate vulnerabilities
Request Remediation
Create and view exceptions for security recommendations
View remediation activities
Block vulnerable applications
Module 5 – Posture and Compliance
Microsoft Secure Score for Devices
Security baselines assessment
Module 6 – Data access
Hunt for exposed devices
Vulnerable devices report
Device health reporting in Defender for Endpoint
Monthly security summary reporting in Defender for Endpoint
API’s
Export assessment methods and properties per device
Export secure configuration assessment per device
Export software inventory assessment per device
Build your own custom reports
Are you ready for the Knowledge check?
Once you’ve finished the training and passed the knowledge check, please click here to request your certificate (you’ll see it in your inbox within 3-5 business days.)
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Firewall considerations for gMSA on Azure Kubernetes Service
This week I spent some time helping a customer with a gMSA environment on which they were finding some issues in deploying their app. The issues started when they were trying to figure out why the Kerberos ticket was not being issues for the Window pod with gMSA configured in AKS. I decided to write this blog post to list some of the firewall considerations for different scenarios on which security rules might block the authentication process.
gMSA and its moving parts
To use gMSA on AKS, you must understand that there are many moving parts in play. First, your Kubernetes cluster on AKS is comprised of both Linux and Windows nodes. Your nodes will all be part of a virtual network, but only the Windows nodes will try to reach the Domain Controller (DC).
The DC itself might be in another virtual network, in the same virtual network, or even outside of Azure. Then you have the Azure Key Vault (AKV) on which the secret (username and password) is securely stored. Your AKV should only be available to the proper Windows nodes, no one else.
The problem though, comes when you have Windows nodes on AKS and DCs running on different networks or even sites, and you need to open the proper ports between the Windows nodes and the Active Directory DC.
Ports to open for Active Directory and gMSA
We have had documentation on which ports to open for Active Directory for a while. That is relatively well known and can be leveraged here.
The thing to understand is that when using gMSA on AKS, not all these ports need to be opened, and allowing unnecessary traffic might expose you to threats without a need for it. For gMSA, there’s no computer or user account being used interactively, and thus we can compile the following list:
Protocol and port
Purpose
TCP and UDP 53
DNS
TCP and UDP 88
Kerberos
TCP 139
NetLogon
TCP and UDP 389
LDAP
TCP 636
LDAP SSL
Keep in mind this list of ports does not take into consideration ports that your application might need to query AD or perform any other action with the DC. You might need to check for those with the application owner.
Domain Controllers in Azure
You might mitigate a lot of firewall issues by simply adding one (or more) DC to Azure as a VM. By doing that, you have two things that play in your favor:
You keep the authentication process within Azure. Your Windows pods and nodes don’t need to reach to an on-premises environment – unless the DC(s) in Azure is down.
You have a better understanding of ports to open between NSGs in Azure rather than traffic between workloads on Azure and DCs on-premises.
On the other hand, you must consider that the DCs in Azure do need to replicate to the DCs on-premises. However, this is a preferred scenario because you know who the DCs are, versus workloads machine that might scale-out or even new workloads/clusters be added in the future. At the end of the day, the scope for opening ports is lower, which minimizes exposure. Please refer to the documentation to understand ports for AD replication as well.
Hopefully this will help you fix any issues you might be having with gMSA caused by blocked traffic. Keep in mind the ports listed above might not be the full list of ports you need to open, but the minimal set of ports and traffic for the proper authentication. As always, let us know in the comments what are your thoughts and if you have a different scenario.
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Public preview of Universal Print on macOS
When we developed Universal Print, our goal was to create a single print solution that meets people where they are and “just works—from every app, on every device. Today, we’re taking a new step toward that vision by announcing the public preview of Universal Print on macOS.
This capability delivers full support for Mac devices within the Universal Print infrastructure. People can now print from any Mac app using the system print dialog without having to install drivers. If you were previously hesitant to adopt Universal Print because of a mixed Windows and Mac environment, you can now move ahead knowing all your workers are supported, regardless of operating system. This capability is available immediately after enabling the feature in the Azure Portal.
Adding printers
A new Universal Print macOS app is now available in the App Store. After installing the app and signing in to a Universal Print eligible Microsoft Entra ID account, people can search for printers by name (e.g., “Building 8” or “Design Studio”) or even narrow down the list by location, then add relevant printers to their devices.
That’s it – no learning curve! Try it today!
Getting started
If you have eligible Universal Print licenses, you already have access to this new capability! Read the documentation or follow these short steps to get started:
Configure the macOS Support (preview) setting to “Show all printers“. You can access this new setting on the Settings page.
The Global settings page for Universal Print in the Microsoft Azure Portal.
Get the Universal Print app from the App Store and sign in with an account that has Universal Print access and access to at least one printer.
The Universal Print system dialog in macOS showing a list of available printers
Find and install a printer.
The Add Printer dialog showing a search for printers by keyword
Try it out – print something from an app you frequently use!
The Print dialog in macOS showing the Universal Print printer
Share your thoughts
We’d love to hear about your experience with the public preview of Universal Print for macOS. Your input really does guide our future investments. Please share your ideas and feature requests with us, start discussions in the Universal Print Tech Community, and leave a review in the App Store.
Additional resources
macOS support is just one recent announcement. To learn about other capabilities, read the latest installment of What’s new for Universal Print. If a demo is what you are looking for, check out our self-paced guided tour, Get to know Universal Print. Or, hear directly from the experts on Universal Print and cloud printing by watching Tackling Tech.
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2024 Microsoft Partner of the Year Awards – nomination window is now open!
Are you a Microsoft partner that has embraced the Microsoft commercial marketplace as key to your GTM strategy? Either selling with or through other partners via marketplace? If so, we want to celebrate you!
The nomination window for the 2024 Microsoft Partner of the Year Awards is open now through April 3, 2024. Submit your nomination for a chance to be recognized as the Commercial Marketplace Microsoft Partner of the Year!
About the Commercial Marketplace Partner of the Year Award:
Recognizes partners that have successfully adopted the marketplace as core to their go-to-market and joint-selling opportunities with Microsoft.
Partners positioned to win this award will demonstrate marketplace sales and marketing expertise, as well as consistent, high-quality, and predictable delivery to marketplace customers.
Successful entries will also include quantifiable success through growth in customer acquisition, billed sales, or Microsoft Azure consumption – either selling digital direct, through channel partners, or co-selling with Microsoft.
Preferred qualification – your organization has a publicly available offer that is transactable and surfaced on digital storefronts (either Azure Marketplace or Microsoft AppSource).
Competitive submissions will describe how your use of the marketplace helped address your customers’ needs. (Examples: Simplified procurement, utilization of cloud consumption commitments, faster time-to-value, or customization with private offers.)
Call to Action
Prepare your nomination & submit before April 3, 2024! Visit https://aka.ms/POTYA for more details.
Additional resources:
Complete award guidelines: https://aka.ms/POTYA_Guidelines
Guidance from the judges: https://aka.ms/POTYA_JudgesGuidance
Tips on creating award-winning entries: https://aka.ms/POTYA_NominationTips
Frequently asked questions: https://aka.ms/POTYA_FAQ
Nomination tool: https://aka.ms/POTYA_Nominate
About the Microsoft Partner of the Year Awards program
The Commercial Marketplace award is just one of many that are celebrated as part of the annual Microsoft Partner of the Year Awards program. The awards are driven by a self-nominating process and acknowledge outstanding successes and innovations by partners across our global ecosystem – recognizing achievements in categories spanning solutions areas, industries and across cloud to edge technologies.
These successes enable digital transformation, showcase entrepreneurial spirit, and deliver impactful solutions to customers. Award winners and finalists receive recognition from Microsoft and the partner community and are celebrated at Microsoft Inspire. Nominations are accepted from February 7, 2024, until April 3, 2024 at 6:00pm Pacific Time.
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Abnormal and swXtch.io offer new transactable partner solutions in Azure Marketplace
Microsoft partners like Abnormal and swXtch.io deliver transact-capable offers, which allow you to purchase directly from Azure Marketplace. Learn about these offers below:
Abnormal – Cloud Email Security: Abnormal’s modern, cloud-native solution uses an API-based architecture to augment the built-in protection of Microsoft 365 to block malicious and unwanted emails that are text-based, lack attack signatures or originate from inside your company — all of which often bypass legacy secure email gateways (SEGs) and cloud email providers.
cloudSwXtch VM Image: cloudSwXtch from swXtch.io is a virtual overlay network that adds feature-rich, high-performance networking to your cloud or edge applications. Deployed as a VM image on Microsoft Azure, cloudSwXtch requires no code changes to your existing applications and enables true and seamless IP multicast and broadcast. It optimizes your network configuration and may reduce your cloud distribution and egress costs.
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