This is a new capability being added to Azure Information Protection (AIP), currently in preview. You can now enable analytics for AIP. To do logon to your Azure portal (https://portal.azure.com) and reach out the Azure Information Protection configuration blade From there you should see Configure analytics (preview) under the Manage section From this configuration blade you can use an existing Log analytics workspace or create a new one; if you…
Read MoreAzure AD – New capabilities for identity governance on Azure AD
You can now define policies to let your end-users requesting access to your corporate resources – from group membership to role permissions – either with automated or manual approval. At this stage, this is currently available only through private preview. You can register your interest here https://aka.ms/azureadidentitygovernancepreview
Read MoreIntune – You can now assign Windows Autopilot profile to already registered clients
As you may already know Windows Autopilot simplifies Windows 10 device enrollment to Azure Active Directory (AAD) and providing seamless user experience. One of the problem with Windows Autopilot was if your already have Windows 10 devices registered to your Azure AD, you were not able to assign an Autopilot profile. With the latest update on Intune, you can now update your Autopilot policy to apply the policy also on…
Read MoreOffice 365 – A new administration portal is on his way and you can try it
A new Office 365 administration portal is on his way and you can enable the preview to start using it. When you logon to your Office 365 administration portal (https://admin.microsoft.com/) you will see a a “Try the preview” toggle on the top right After turning on the preview, the administration portal will switch to the preview mode As always, this is a preview which means there will probably few glitches…
Read MoreIntune – Display an enrollment status page
With the latest Intune update, you can now display an enrollment status page after a Windows 10 device has been registered. The page will let your end-users know what is happening while their device is finalizing the registration process. To do so, you first need to enable the feature in Intune Connect to your Azure portal and reach out the Intune configuration blade Then reach out the Device Enrollment\Windows Enrollment…
Read MoreWindows / Azure – Reset password from all Windows
You may be already aware that you can provide the ability to your end-user to reset their password (Self Service Password Reset – SSRP) directly from the logon screen for Windows 10 Azure AD Joined device (see https://t.co/LW060QqgGV if you want to know more). Well, Microsoft has announced a major improvement for this feature as you can now use it for all Windows version (from Windows 7 to Windows 10…
Read MoreWindows – Windows 10 1809 and Windows Server 2019 have been pulled out
Just few days after the release of Windows 10 1809 and Windows Server 2019, Microsoft has pulled out these releases from MSDN (and possibly Volume license) as well as paused the delivery through Windows Update. This follows reports of missing files and Microsoft is investigating (limited details available here https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4464619/windows-10-update-history)
Read MoreExchange Online – Implement ‘Limited Access’ Conditional Access
You may already know that you can implement a ‘limited access’ conditional access for SharePoint Online and OneDrive for Business, allowing end-users to access content on SharePoint Online but not authorizing to download anything while accessing using non compliant devices. Now, you can do the same for Exchange Online to allow your end-users accessing their mailbox using Outlook on the Web (aka Outlook Web Access) while the device they are…
Read MoreAzure – New Azure PowerShell Module coming up
A new Azure PowerShell module is currently in preview and will become the default PowerShell module to manage Azure later, combining AzureRM and AzureRM.Netcore modules. New PpowerShell capabilities will be delivered only through Az starting December 2018. The new Az module is currently in preview and latest version is 0.2.2 AzureRM is still supported (for now). It is supported on PowerShell 5.1 with .Net Framework 4.7.2 or later [Windows only]…
Read MoreWindows – Windows 10 1809 and Windows Server 2019 are now available
UPDATE Oct, 6th – Windows 10 1809 and Windows Server 2019 have been pulled out for further investigation after issues reported (see https://t.co/WLZS6uC7Px) Windows 10 1809 update is being rolled out through WindowsUpdate and is already available using the Installation Media tool or MSDN. Windows Server 2019 is also available on MSDN or in evaluation, additional availability (volume licensing, Azure VM) will come within the next few days.
Read MoreAzure AD – New SSO setup experience
An updated and refreshed experience is now available when setting up Single Sign On (SSO) when publishing application on Azure Active Directory (AAD). After adding a new application in Azure AD you need to setup how the authentication is going to be proceed and most of the time you are going to setup SSO. The new SSO setup experience is more intuitive and will let you test the setup before…
Read MoreAzure/Windows 10 – You can use your Authenticator App to sign in
Going the same way than Windows Hello for Business, you can now use your Microsoft Authenticator app to sign in to your corporate resources protected by Azure AD (Azure, Office 365, Azure published apps…) You need off course few prerequisites: Running Windows 10, registered to your Azure AD tenant Have setup an authentication policy on your Azure AD Have register your Microsoft Authenticator app Setup the authentication policy on Azure…
Read MoreOffice 365 – Microsoft Search is now available
A new service has appear in Office 365 called Microsoft Search. Microsoft Search is going to use Bing and Windows Search to provide search results to end-users on Office 365. The service is turned off by default and if you want to experiment/enable it you need to logon to your Office 365 admin portal (https://admin.microsoft.com) and reach out the Settings\Services & add-ins to enable Microsoft Search Then search for Microsoft…
Read MoreOffice 365 – StaffHub is being retired and replaced with Teams
Microsoft is going to retired Office 365 StaffHub, which was designed for firstline/deskless workers, and replace it with Microsoft Teams. Starting April 1st, 2019 StaffHub will be unavailable for new tenants and remove for the mobile app stores. For existing customers using StaffHub, the service will be removed by October 1st, 2019. At this date, any access to StaffHub will be removed and a message inviting to download Microsoft Teams…
Read MoreAzure – Azure AD authentication available in preview for Azure Files
You may already know Azure Files service allowing you to use Azure as files ‘server’ and off course Azure AD to manage authentication to your Microsoft cloud services (Azure and/or Office 365). Well, good news, you can use Azure AD to leverage authentication to access Azure Files; meaning you can set NTFS like permissions on Azure Files. Off course the existing storage account key process is still supported and available.…
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