After an incredibly long hiatus, I've decided the time is right to update my traffic bot for Highway 17.

There's just one issue: due to a confluence of events, I have to create a new Twitter X account.

So, consider this a friendly announcement for the new and improved bot: @TheDriveOn17

More to come soon . . .

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I'm digging the "What If" tool in Azure Conditional Access component. The idea is simple: as you're building policies, you can throw various scenarios at the policy engine to understand what the heck it'll do.

This gives admins the opportunity to observe effects and perhaps test variations of authentication use . . .

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Just a friendly reminder that the Microsoft sensitive operations report workbook exists and can be super helpful.

For those unfamiliar, it's an Azure Monitor workbook designed to capture activities/events that could be critical or impactful for Azure AD. Examples include:

• Modified application and service . . .

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This is just a quick note to remind folks that cloud service providers can (and often do) have exceptions to data residency. As an example, check out Microsoft Azure's platform notes here.

Operational statements like this change from moment to moment but, for the purpose of illustration, here's an example line:

. . .

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I've heard this question come up a few times so I thought it would be a good blog topic: what's the difference between "STIX" and "TAXII"?

It's actually pretty straight-forward:

• STIX stands for "Structured Threat Information Expressions" and is a structured data format for . . .

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This was another topic that was a little confusing: what's the difference between Azure Blueprints and Azure Landing Zone?

I came across various Microsoft documentation but it was still a little... vague.

Here's a nice table, provided courtesy of Google Bard:

(usual disclaimer about AI-provided . . .

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