Author name: Benoit HAMET

Office 365 – New simplified Setup blade

The Office 365 Administration got a small update to provide a simpler Setup blade. Instead of showing up as a main section with 3 administration sub blades (see below), the new Setup menu is now a single configuration blade showing up all setup tasks and their status which then allows you to navigate through the […]

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Azure – New Azure Key Vault policies to help you manage your certificates

As you know, with Azure Key Vault you can save various credentials details, including certificates used by your application or your Azure infrastructure services. With the increase of certificates use, you may have more and more certificates saved into your Key Vault, making it more complicated to manage. Well, good new, new policies have been

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Azure – You can now use a Key Vault extension with your Azure Virtual Machines

This is something which is going to simplify your life: the Key Vault extension for Azure Virtual Machine. Using this extension you will have simpler access to Azure Key Vault for your applications running on Azure Virtual Machines. The Key Vault extension supports the following operating systems: Windows Windows Server 2019 Windows Server 2016 Windows

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Azure – You can now define automation workflow on Azure Security Center (preview)

By now you should already know Azure Security Center (ASC), the unified one-stop shop security management for Azure, providing you details about your security posture and potential improvements. Well, you can now define automation workflow (in preview) to automate actions based on detection alerts or security center recommendations. Automation workflow uses Logic App to execute

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Windows 10 – The new release 1909 is now officially available

Few weeks after becoming available on MSDN (see https://t.co/dANct8YTwE), the new Windows 10 release, aka Windows 10 November update, aka Windows10 1909, is now officially available. You can get it through Windows Update, Volume License and/or the media creation tool (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10). IMPORTANT with this release Windows 10 1803 has reached end of support while it

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Teams – You can now Pin Teams Channel

Microsoft Teams now allows you to pin Channel, making it easier to define your favorites channels. To start using it, just open your Teams client and open the contextual menu of the channel you want to pin to choose Pin Once a channel is pinned, it will then be displayed below the new Pinned section

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Azure – New Azure AD Connect version (1.4.32.0) is now available

A new version of Azure AD Connect (AAD Connect) version 1.4.32.0 is now available. It contains a fix for the known issue with Self Service Password Reset (SSPR) which was fixed with an interim version only available for auto upgrade. This version introduces an internal schema change which will require you to use MSOnline PowerShell

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Azure – Extend Azure to your on-premises with ARC

As announced at the Microsoft Ignite 2019 Conference (see https://t.co/3saEyWJRta) you can now extend Azure Resource Manager (ARM) capabilities – including your Azure governance policies – to your on-premises servers with Azure ARC, as well as other cloud services. By extending ARM outside of Azure, you will be able to see your servers on the

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Azure – You can now use a central configuration and management point for Azure Firewall

You may already know Azure Firewall, the managed, cloud-based network security solution protecting your Azure virtual network resources. Well, good news, you can now have a central configuration and management point for Azure Firewall, called Azure Firewall Manager, to help you manage your cloud-based security perimeters. Azure Firewall Manager works with Azure Virtual WAN Hub

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Azure AD – You can now configure Admin Consent workflow

As you may already know, applications integrated with Azure AD may required administrators consent to allow them access your Azure AD data (for example read user profile). When a user tries to access an application with requires admin consent but has not been approved it, it starts to be a long support process to get

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