As you know the beauty of the PaaS is you don’t have anymore to manage the underlying infrastructure (patching OS for example) as this the responsibility of the cloud provider. Well, while this is very interesting you lose a little bit of control, especially when it comes to maintenance. Well, you can now manage the […]
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Teams administrators can now have the list of Teams a user has joined from the Teams administration portal. To enjoy this new capability, connect to your Teams administration portal (https://admin.teams.microsoft.com/) and access the Users\Manage users blade to select the user you want to have the list of Teams. You can get the list by accessing
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As you know, Azure Virtual Desktop (aka AVD, aka Windows Virtual Desktop) is the Microsoft solution to securely provide virtualized remote desktop virtualized on Azure. To connect to an AVD session you need to use the remote desktop client (available here https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-desktop/user-documentation/connect-windows-7-10/?WT.mc_id=M365-MVP-7836) and then get your end-users to subscribe to a workspace. Well, good news
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A new feature is just on his way for the Teams client (rolling out expected to be completed by mid-March). You can now mute notifications when you are in a meeting; helping you to no longer be distracted during the meeting. There is no policy available to allow administrators to manage it. To turn off
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As you know Azure AD provides you ways to review and troubleshoot authentication prompts but this is sometime difficult as you may have to deal with multiple reports and/or logs. Well a new workbook called Authentication prompts analysis is now available. It aggregates all logs related to authentication prompts for users and applications, giving you
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This feature is currently in deployment – available for targeted tenant or rolling out starting mid-March up to mid-April for standard release. These reports are going to help security and compliance officers to identify if there is any gap, issue or misconfiguration on how files are shared or on applying sensitivity labels. To access these
As you know, Azure Active Directory is the heart of the Microsoft Cloud services for authentication, authorization and access management controls. Well, sometime it is difficult to keep up with updated (or outdated) best practices and/or recommendations. Well to help keeping up and provide customized recommendation to your own Azure AD tenant a new feature
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As you know, Azure Active Directory is the heart of identity and access management to access Microsoft cloud platform services. If you have Azure AD P2, you also have the access review feature, which you should use to review access to your applications, groups or Teams (including for guest users) to ensure people continue to
Azure AD – You can now implement multi-stage review in your access reviews Read More »
If you remember since 2019, Microsoft has been announcing the retirement of Basic Authentication in a way to improve security as Basic Authentication does not support multi factor authentication (MFA) (see https://t.co/9XZtsVFoQr). Well, Office 365 and Exchange Online administrators should start looking at their Message Center has the retirement is starting and Microsoft provides you
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As you may already know, Azure AD comes with the Identity Protection feature which helps you identify risky sign-ins and/or users; even if you don’t have an Azure AD P2, which is requires to configure the Identity Protection policies, you have the risky reports available. Well, until now, the Identity Protection was covering only user
