Author: allen.visser

Microsoft Purview – Data Sharing & Receiving (preview): Azure Storage data in-place (post 5)

Synopis This post will simplify how to register, authenticate and govern the Azure Blob Storage accounts in Microsoft Purview and how to share data and receive shares from Blob storage accounts. Components: Some quick fluffy stuff for you as to why we would share data in-place using blob storage. Traditionally, organizations have shared data with… Continue reading Microsoft Purview – Data Sharing & Receiving (preview): Azure Storage data in-place (post 5)

Microsoft Purview – Data Sources: Azure SQL Database (Post 4)

1 – Microsoft Purview: Discover and govern Azure SQL Database using Scans This article outlines the process to register an Azure SQL database source in Microsoft Purview. It includes instructions to authenticate and interact with the SQL database. Supported capabilities in Microsoft Purview for Azure SQL Database: When you’re scanning Azure SQL Database, Microsoft Purview… Continue reading Microsoft Purview – Data Sources: Azure SQL Database (Post 4)

Microsoft Defender for Cloud: Alert validations

This post provides a simple sample to execute in your enviroment in order to verify whether you have correctly configured your Microsoft Defender for Cloud alerts. Microsoft Defender for Cloud (MDC) Alerts are the notifications that Defender for Cloud generates when it detects threats on your resources. It prioritizes and lists the alerts along with… Continue reading Microsoft Defender for Cloud: Alert validations

How to Enable SQL Insights (preview) to monitor your SQL deployments

Synopsis of this post: My post presumes that you already have a backend Azure SQL database in place and that you now want to enable SQL Insights. I have written this post using Azure SQL database but Azure SQL Insights can be used on Azure SQL Managed Instance and SQL Server ( Azure SQL family). My… Continue reading How to Enable SQL Insights (preview) to monitor your SQL deployments