NOTE this does not apply if you are full Skype for Business Online As Microsoft is hardening his platforms, you may (or your end-users) have issue with Lync or Skype for Business on-premises deployment looking up for external contact (aka public federation and/or Skype consumer directories), as shown in the below screenshot. This is a […]
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A new administration role for Intune has been made available – Endpoint Security Manager. This new role is an extension of the the Security Administrator role, to allow you The associated permissions with this new Endpoint Security Manager are: Read, Create, Update, Delete, and Assign Device Compliance Policies Read, Delete, and Update Managed devices Read,
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You may already know the Azure service called Azure Lab Services which allows you to quickly create development/test environment in a self-service mode for your developers and/or testers. This service has been updated to now allowing you to automatically shutdown virtual machines when user disconnects from the remote desktop session. To enable this new feature,
In the way to limit the need and use of the global administrator role, 3 new administration roles have been made available: Groups administrator to delegate groups (Azure AD security groups, Office 365 Groups, Teams or Yammer) management, covering naming convention, expiration policy or even AAD security group restoration Office apps administrator allows you delegating
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By now you should know the Azure Information Protection (AIP) solution the cloud-based right managements services (RMS) used to classify and protect documents and emails. Azure Information Protection has been there for quite some time already (also previously known as Azure RMS too). After various evolutions, it is time to see the classic Azure Information
As you know Outlook on the Web (aka Outlook Web Access) is getting frequent improvements. The latest one is the rooms are now getting a card providing all relevant details, including a map. This card is only available when using Outlook Web Access. Off course this requires you have set all the relevant room details.
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You may know Kaizala has been the youngest and latest service added to Office 365, providing phone-based collaboration capabilities. Until then, to manage Kaizala you had to be an Office 365 Global Administrator; well, not anymore, a new administration role is now available to delegate administration of Kaizala without granting global administration: Kaizala admin
A new setting is becoming available for Teams meeting policies to control how dial-in users are handled when joining the meeting. With this new setting, dial-in users are bypassing the lobby by default. You can control it by editing the Allow dial-in users to bypass the lobby setting in the meeting policy from the portal
Good news for those working with Azure Storage Account, support for NFS (Network File System) v3 and v4 have been added to Azure Storage Account. That said, there is currently a requirement to first register your subscription as this is currently in preview; registration form is available at https://aka.ms/AzureNFSPreview For your information: NFS v3 is
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This is not a major new capability but still interesting as it gives you more control, you can now define the name of the resource group being used by Azure Recovery Services to store the instant recovery point. Previously, the resource group was hardcoded and looked like AzureBackupRG_<geographical location>_<number>. You can still let Azure use
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