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Office 365 – Apply client policy to your Office installation from Office 365

You may not be aware but you can create user policies for Office 365 Pro Plus and apply them from your Office 365 tenant using Office Client Policy Service (OCPS). Policies created with OCPS are user settings only (for now, machine settings will come some time next year) and are roaming with the user account, […]

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Exchange – The latest cumulative updates for Exchange 2016 and Exchange 2019 are now available

The latest cumulative updates for Exchange 2016 (CU 15) and Exchange 2019 (CU 4) are now available. As an important note, these updates require to have the .Net Framework 4.8 installed (you can get it from here http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=2085155 using the web installer or from here https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=2088631 using the offline installer). As part of these updates,

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Azure AD – You can now customize the My Apps portal

As there is more use of Azure AD application integration (either Enterprise Applications or Azure AD App Proxy), it is becoming more complicated for end-users to find their most important applications for their work. Well, good news, Azure AD Administrators can now create a ‘workspace’ grouping all related applications for their job or role. First

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Azure AD – The Azure AD Application gallery has been refreshed

As you already know, you can integrate your applications or third party SaaS applications with Azure AD using the Azure AD Application Gallery. The next time you go to integrate a new application with your Azure AD, you may want to switch to the new and refreshed gallery, which provides a cleaner and simpler view.

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Intune – You can now use a device-based certificate for all operating system

As you may already know, you are able with Intune to provide a PKCS certificate for user when connecting to WiFi or VPN networks (see https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/intune/protect/certficates-pfx-configure#create-a-pkcs-certificate-profile for more details). If you wanted to use a PKCS certificate for device based authentication, this was only possible for macOS based devices. Well, good news, the latest update

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Azure – Update to dynamic compliance package with the updated Azure CIS 1.1.0 policy

As you may already know, Azure comes with a set of policies to help you meet compliance and security standards (ISO 27001, SOC, PCI DSS…) and requirements. As you should have been already using it (and if not this is a good day to start ), you have to be aware that the Azure CIS

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Intune – Manage Outlook organizational data notification

A new application protection policy setting has been introduced in Intune to let you manage Outlook Mobile notification. With this new setting, administrator can define if notification from Outlook Mobile (email and calendar) can be (or not) by displayed on the lock screen – this is available for both Android and iOS devices, including wearable

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Office 365 – A new attack simulator scenario is now available

As you may already know, about a year ago, Microsoft has introduced a security tool to Office 365 called Attack Simulator to help administrator and security teams to simulate attacks to their Office 365 tenant to find vulnerable accounts before a real attack occurs. Well, the Office 365 Attack Simulator has been updated to include

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Azure – Azure Connected Machine Agent is available through WSUS/SCCM

As announced few weeks ago at the Ignite 2019 Conference, Microsoft has been working to bring Azure capabilities back to on-premises (see https://t.co/Ih1SutrNVM). Well, just in case you are already evaluating this new capability with the onboarding process of on-premises servers and if you are using SCCM and/or WSUS to manage your servers updates deployment,

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Azure – Azure AD Authentication for Windows virtual machine is now in preview

You may remember that about a year ago, Microsoft has introduced the capability to logon with your Azure AD credentials on Linux virtual machine running on Azure. Well, good news, this possibility is now available in preview for Windows virtual machine too – to be more precise, only on Windows 2019 or Windows 10 1809

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