Microsoft just rolled out a hotfix for a glitch in Azure Active Directory (AD) that caused long delays in logging data for more than 12 hours.

To use Structured Logs, organizations will need to "first configure a Log Analytics workspace in your Azure subscription" to store the log data, Microsoft indicated.

Microsoft eventually plans to add the Azure AD Activity Logs capability to its Azure Log Analytics service, the announcement explained, although the timing wasn't described. In related Azure AD news, ...

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