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In this video Minnie talks about the Metadata Security Protocol security feature on Azure Instance Metadata Service that helps mitigate security risks by only allowing authenticated applications to communicate with the Host endpoints. Chapters 00:00 - Introduction 01:46 - How Metadata Security Protocol works with Azure Instance Metadata 02:49 - Start of demo 02:54 - Register for feature in portal 03:11 - How to use the feature in portal 04:08 - Inside the virtual machine to check IMDS communication 04:37 - How to check which applications are communicating with different endpoints 05:26 - How…
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Azure Friday
Scott Hanselman · Tech & Science · English
Scott Hanselman sits with engineers who build and run Azure services — weekly conversations on new features, best practices and Microsoft cloud.
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