Azure Virtual Machines announcement

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  South Central US Outage 9/4/2018
  Micah McKittrick Tuesday, September 4, 2018 4:32 PM

  We are currently experiencing an outage in South Central US

  https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/status/

  You will want to monitor the Azure Status Page for further updates.
  

  Once the issue has mitigated all Virtual Machines and data should be restored and fully functional. After the issue has been mitigated and if you are still seeing issues let us know. 

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  Remote Desktop Connection Issues: CredSSP
  Micah McKittrick Monday, May 14, 2018 8:40 PM

  With the release of the March 2018 Security bulletin, there was a fix that addressed a CredSSP, “Remote Code Execution” vulnerability (CVE-2018-0886) which could impact RDP connections. The vulnerability was discovered to which the exploits observed were:

  • Targets receive a malicious RTF Microsoft Office document
  • After being opened, the malicious document causes the second stage of the exploit to be downloaded in the form of an HTML page with malicious code
  • The malicious code triggers the use-after-free memory-corruption bug
  • Accompanying shellcode then downloads and executes a malicious payload

  For additional information regarding this update and mitigation steps see the following blog: 

  Unable to RDP to Virtual Machine: CredSSP Encryption Oracle Remediation 

  For general discussion of this topic please see: 

  General Discussion - Unable to RDP to Virtual Machine: CredSSP Encryption

  If the mitigation steps detailed in the above links do not solve your problem please submit a new forum post to: 

  Azure Virtual Machines