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Skype for Business – You can now see if your contacts is running on Teams

You may think this is not a useful feature but the Skype for Business client has been updated to show if your contact is running on Teams; if you look closely on the bottom left of the contact picture you will see a Teams icon if your contact is running Teams.

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Azure – The Live Metrics Stream public IP’s for Application insights have changed

In case you are using Azure Application Insights to monitor the performance and availability of your applications (mobile or web application), you must know that the public IP addresses used by the Live Metrics Stream feature (used to live probe your application) have changed. If you use firewall outbound restriction you must update your firewall

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Azure – Azure Recovery now supports SQL 2019 and restore as file

Azure Recovery Services is keeping up with the latest release of Microsoft SQL, SQL Server 2019, as it now supports backing up SQL Server 2019 data running on virtual machine. This also includes support for SQL Server 2019 running on Windows Server 2019. In addition of this support, you also now restore SQL backup as

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Azure – Azure Migrate can now assess physical servers and VDI (preview)

You may already know Azure Migrate, the one stop shop to help you assessing and migrating your on-premises virtual machines/workloads to Azure services. Well, good news, Azure Migrate is now able to provide assessment for physical servers and VDI too, in addition of the Hyper-V or VMWare virtual machines. If you are starting with Azure

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Azure AD – You now use Google ID with Azure B2B

It has been in preview for the past few months, it is now GA (generally available): you can now invite external users (Azure AD B2B – Business to Business) using Google ID as identity provider, supporting @gmail.com and @googlemail.com email address domains. Before enabling support for Google ID, you first need to create a Google

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Office 365 – You can now use templates when creating new users

This has been a long awaited features which is now available in Office 365: the ability to use templates when creating new user accounts. When using this feature you will be able to create new user account based setting from existing accounts. This applies only for user accounts you are creating from the Office 365

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Intune – You can now create a test environment to test recommended settings and apps

As you may know testing and validating Intune settings may be a little bit challenging. To help you with this, you can now create a secured test environment, called Cloud Managed PC. To start with this new capability you need to logon to your Device Management portal (https://devicemanagement.microsoft.com/) and access the Home blade NOTE you

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Teams – A Linux client for Teams is coming

A Linux client for Microsoft Teams is coming next mid December. It will be available from https://aka.ms/getteams In preparation you can familiar yourself with the Teams Linux client deployment here https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/get-clients#linux

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Exchange Online – You can now get a recommended configuration for Advanced Threat Protection

As you may already know, Office 365 Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) helps protecting Exchange Online against any security threats. That said, configuring a correct ATP protection for Exchange Online can be a little bit challenging. To help you in this process, Microsoft has released a new PowerShell module to generate an Office 365 Recommended Configuration

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