July 2018

Intune – Third party certification authorities is now supported for SCEP

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One of the important security management responsibilities of Microsoft Intune is the ability to issue certificates to devices using the Simple Certificate Enrollment Protocol (SCEP). Starting today, Intune now supports third party certification authorities for SCEP – starting with Entrust as first CA. Support of Active Directory Certificate Services is still supported of course Below […]

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Office 365 – New anti-phishing capabilities added to Advanced Threat Protection

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A new default policy is being deployed for Office 365 ATP (Advanced Threat Protection) to protect you against phishing. The new policy is/will be available through the Security and Compliance administration portal (https://protection.office.com/) From there, reach out the Threat Management\Policy section and then click on ATP anti-phishing option Then the Default policy is not displayed

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Azure – An updated interface for Azure AD Roles management

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The Azure Active Directory Roles configuration blade has been updated to provide more details and management option for Azure AD Roles. Connect to your Azure administration portal (https://portal.azure.com) or Azure AD administration portal (https://aad.portal.azure.com) and reach out your Azure Active Directory blade or Then reach out the Roles and administrators blade At first sight it

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Azure / Office 365 – You can now use your Microsoft Authenticator mobile app for SSPR (preview)

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The Self Service Password Reset, available with Azure AD and Office 365, has been updated to let your end-user use the Microsoft Authenticator mobile app when using the Self Service Password Reset (SSPR). First you need to enable this new capability from your Azure AD portal (https://aad.portal.azure.com/) or Azure portal (https://portal.azure.com) and reach the Password

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Sway – Sway is moving to a new URL

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This is not a big change but could impact your end-users if you whitelist Office 365 endpoints at your proxy level. Sway is moving to a new URL: http://sway.office.com So if you have whitelisted Office 365 services endpoints, you will have to update it to replace sway.com to sway.office.com; let me also remind you, you

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Azure – New version of Azure AD Connect available for autoupgrade

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If you have configured your Azure AD Connect (the directory synchronization tool for Azure AD and Office 365), a new version (1.1.880.0) has been made available. This version solves the issue with Azure AD Connect Health agent running 100% CPU – which was (incorrectly?) reported to be related to the Framework update. Also part of

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Azure – Azure AD Conditional Access sign-ins reports in preview

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You may already be aware of this security feature called Azure AD Conditional Access helping you protecting and securing access to your resources published through Azure AD. A new capability to this feature has been added (in preview) to provide a better reporting and troubleshooting capabilities: Azure AD Conditional Access Sign-Ins Report To start using

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Office Server – The previews for Exchange and Skype for Business 2019 is now available

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This is it, it has just been announced: the preview of the next major version of Exchange and Skype for Business is now available (SharePoint will come later). You can get the bits here: Exchange 2019: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=57167 Skype for Business 2019: http://download.microsoft.com/download/2/0/9/209372AB-F64F-4F04-8BDA-FBAB1C685BA3/W17_2044.76_Eval.iso As part the new features/capabilities: Exchange 2019 Exchange 2019 can be deployed on

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Office 365 – Reminder to move to TLS 1.2

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UPDATE Oct 26th, 2018 – Microsoft is delaying the enforcement http://bit.ly/2D5uv3p A quick reminder as the date is fast approaching: you must have moved to TLS 1.2 before October 31, 2018 It has been announced about a year ago (October 2017), all client-server and browser based communication with Office 365 services will use TLS 1.2

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Azure AD / Office 365 – Integration with LinkedIn is finally here

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It has been announced some time ago already, but now the integration is finally here. You can now enable the LinkedIn integration with your Office 365 (Azure AD) tenant. NOTE the integration is turned off by default. To enable the feature, you need to logon to your Azure portal (https://portal.azure.com/) or your Azure AD administration

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