Author name: Benoit HAMET

Azure – You can now request code analysis with Microsoft Secure Code Analysis

With the Microsoft Security Code Analysis extension, you can integrate security analysis tools including Credential Scanner, BinSkim, and others into your Azure DevOps continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD) pipelines. Such code review is highly recommended as per the Secure Development Lifecycle (SDL) recommendations. This feature will increase your developers productivity while ensuring your code is […]

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SharePoint Online – You can now enable Azure Information Protection Sensitivity label on SharePoint Online and OneDrive

As you know, you have been able to integrate Azure Right Management Services (Azure RMS) with SharePoint Online for quite a long time already. That said, since Azure RMS has become Azure Information Protection and now also integrates Sensitivity Label, SharePoint Online (and OneDrive for Business) were not able to process the content of the

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Teams – Private channel is now here

It has been announced quite some time ago, Microsoft Teams Private Channel is now available. First thing, you need to ensure your administrator is allowing Private Channel (which should be on by default). To check the policy, logon to your Teams administration portal (https://admin.teams.microsoft.com/) and check the Teams policy/policies to ensure at least Create private

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Azure – You can now use Azure AD Authentication to logon on Windows virtual machines (preview)

After  getting the ability to logon on Linux virtual machines on Azure using your Azure AD credentials (see http://blog.hametbenoit.info/2018/05/23/azure-you-can-use-your-azure-ad-credentials-to-logon-to-linux-vm/), you can now also do the same with Windows virtual machine (Windows Server 2019 Datacenter and Windows 10 1809 [or later]), available to all Azure regions. To be able to use it, you need to ensure

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Office 365 – You can define Favorites administration roles

As you already know, the Roles page on Office 365 administration portal (https://admin.microsoft.com/) allows you to manage Office 365 roles assigned to your users. Well, you can now define your favorites administration roles (aka the one you use/manage the most) to filter the available roles to only those ones. To set an administration role as

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Office – OneNote 2016 mainstream support is going to continue

For those who still use OneNote 2016 and still do not have moved to the OneNote Windows 10 app (I am one of them ) – probably because there is still to much gap between OneNote 2016 and OneNote app, here is a good news. Despite what was announced in 2018, Microsoft is reversing and

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Azure – A new major version of Azure PowerShell modules (Az) is now available

  A new Azure PowerShell modules (Az) (version 3.0) has been released and is available for download either using MSI packages or Install-Module command       x86 MSI package: https://github.com/Azure/azure-powershell/releases/download/v3.0.0-November2019/Az-Cmdlets-3.0.0.30818-x86.msi x64 MSI package: https://github.com/Azure/azure-powershell/releases/download/v3.0.0-November2019/Az-Cmdlets-3.0.0.30818-x64.msi Install-Module command: Install-Module -Name Az -Repository PSGallery –Force or Update-Module -Name Az (if already had Az PowerShell module installed) As

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Office 365 – Cloud Shell is now also available on Office 365 Administration portal

You may be already aware of Cloud Shell, a feature introduced with Azure allowing you to run PowerShell commands directly from the web browser (https://shell.azure.com/), which then has been extended to allow you to also connect to Exchange Online. Well, now it is the turn of Office 365 as Cloud Shell just makes his appearance

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Azure – Azure Arc, run Azure services anywhere

It has just been announced at the Microsoft Ignite 2019 Conference, a new hybrid/multi cloud capability has been added to Azure called Azure ARC. After delivering Azure Stack few years ago delivering a consistent cloud-model for on-premises deployment, Azure ARC is now available in preview allowing you to deploy Azure services anywhere while extending the

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Azure – PowerShell support in Azure Function is now generally available

As you may already know, Azure Function is a serverless computing service designed to accelerate and simplify application development. Well, good news is PowerShell support in Azure Function is now generally available, which means you can now use your existing PowerShell code into Azure Function You can get more details on how to use PowerShell

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