August 2018

Azure/Office 365 – Multi Factor Authentication app available in preview for Apple Watch

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The Multi Factor Authentication application for Azure and Office 365 is now available in preview for use with Apple Watch. It supports both corporate (work account) and personal (Microsoft account) accounts with push notification. You can sign up at https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=v4j5cvGGr0GRqy180BHbR68AojHg485IuWUUpl99NURUNFQ0OUpEQzFNRlBHUjc3NkxWSTQzSEhFRi4u

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Azure AD – New location to manage guest and organizational relationship

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Azure AD has been updated with a new configuration blade called Organizational Relationships.This new configuration blade is the new location to manage guest users permissions and invitations   You now have access to a comprehensive list of users from external organizations (guest) with the option (as you already from the users list) to create a

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Azure – Disaster recovery now supporting cross-subscription

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You can now use configure your disaster recovery (DR) to target another subscription. Until now, the DR was only using the subscription associated with the virtual machine. To enable the cross-subscription, access the virtual machine configuration blade and reach out the Operations\Disaster Recovery option Then select the Target Subscription; by default, the selected subscription is

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SCCM/Intune – Hybrid mobile device management is deprecated

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It seems it has not been widely and properly communicated As you may know with System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) you were able to setup an hybrid mobile device management with Intune, meaning you were able to use Intune to register your device and use SCCM to manage them. So, since August 14th 2018, this

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Office 365 – End users can now delete their FindTime data

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If your users are using FindTime, they can now delete their data on FindTime. NOTE this will delete all data (aka open/cancelled/completed pools) as well as their FindTime account. They will be able to relink their account with FindTime but the deleted data is unrecoverable.   To delete your FindTime data, you need to logon

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Azure – Workshops available to learn Cosmos DB

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Want to learn Azure Cosmos DB but don’t know where to start? So, you are lucky, free/self learning workshops are available to start learning Cosmos DB at https://cosmosdb.github.io/labs/ The workshop is composed with 4 labs, plus intro and clean up You will need to use a Windows 10 x64 version with the .Net Framework 4.5.1

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Azure – New version of the Developer’s Guide is now available

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The updated version of the free ebook “Developer’s Guide to Azure” is now available – in PDF, EPub or Mobi. The ebook covers: Chapter 1: The Developer’s Guide to Azure Chapter 2: Getting started with Azure Chapter 3: Securing your application Chapter 4: Adding intelligence to your application Chapter 5: Working with and understanding IoT

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SCCM – You can now deploy updates without package

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With the latest update of System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) Current Branch (build 1806), you can deploy updates without creating a package to be deployed. When you choose to deploy the updates without a package, the client will download the updates from Windows Update servers. The option is available when you create (or edit) an

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Azure – Azure Security Center playbooks

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4 new playbooks to demonstrate Azure Security Center capabilities are available. With these 4 playbooks you can demonstrate/evaluate Azure Security Capabilities to protect your Azure resources against virus attack, SQL injection, DDoS on public IP or cross site scripting. You can deploy the playbooks from the following URL to your Azure tenant: Virus attack playbook

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