It has been announced some time ago, and now this is starting to be rolled out. If you need to recover your OneDrive for Business space from a previous state, you will have the ability to do it your self by executing the following steps. NOTE this does not replace the recycle bin for deleted […]
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As you may know, Microsoft has added access to Azure Shell (either PowerShell or Bash) directly from the portal; giving you the possibility to run shell commands directly from the web browser (see http://blog.hametbenoit.info/2017/09/27/azure-powershell-in-azure-cloud-shell-now-in-preview/) Now, you can have access to the same without logging on to the Azure portal – just go to https://shell.azure.com/ If
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When you use Azure AD Pass-Through authentication, your users are getting authenticated against your on-premises Active Directory when accessing cloud services (same way if you were using Federation, except this requires less infrastructure). So, knowing that (you are authenticating against your on-premises AD), what happen if an attacker is trying to gain access to your
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The Skype for Business network assessment tool has been updated (version 2017.1.0.51) and is now taking into account Microsoft Teams in addition of Skype for Business. You can download the updated network assessment from https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=53885 Once installed, there is no shortcuts whatsoever; you need to browse to C:\Program Files\Microsoft Skype for Business Network Assessment Tool
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You are now able to integrate Microsoft Flows in Microsoft Teams. To integrate Flow in Teams, open your Teams client and go to the Store Then search for Flow (if not highlighted first) Then you can install the Flow application in Teams From there you will be able to manage your Flows (personal and team)
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The general availability of the IT Service Manager Connector (ITSMC) has just been announced. You can now integrate Azure monitoring with your ITSM, like ServiceNow or System Center Service Manager, to automatically generates ticket and notification from your ITSM tool. More details on the pricing available here https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/monitor/ and the documentation to integrate your ITSM
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Azure Backup is now being integrated with the virtual machine creation process. This means you can immediately apply a backup policy when creating your virtual machine on Azure. When you create a new virtual machine you will have the ability to define the backup policy; the option will be available when setting up the virtual
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Setting up Conditional Access on Azure can be a little bit tricky and may result in loosing access to the resource. Off course you can (and should always) test the configuration before putting into production, but even then this is time consuming. Now, you can evaluate your Conditional Access configuration before testing it with the
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The latest version of the OneDrive for Business client (17.3.7294.0108) now allows you to synchronize SharePoint Online RMS protected libraries. To take advantage of this new functionality, just ensure you are running at least the referenced version (17.3.7294.0108) of OneDrive for Business client. If not, just get it from https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/p/?linkid=844652 (only if you do not
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This update will be very interesting for migration context to Exchange Online – may be other situation too but can’t see it right now. Microsoft is introducing a new parameter to the Set-User command to permanently remove previous Exchange Online details. Imagine the following scenario: User have Exchange On Premises mailbox You have Azure AD
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