Author name: Benoit HAMET

Azure – You can now use Azure AD authentication support for point to site VPN

As you already know, you can connect to your Azure virtual networks (VNets) from your devices using either Site to Site (S2S) VPN and/or Point to Site (P2S) VPN. The Point to Site VPN connection use to require self-signed certificate for the client to connect to Azure. Well, good news, you can now use your […]

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Azure – Quickly find the status of Azure Security Center recommendations

As you may know, Azure Security Center (ASC) is your own stop shop for everything related to the security of your Azure infrastructure (including when running in hybrid with your on-premises servers onboarded onto Azure). Microsoft is providing default built-in rules to help you secure your resources as per the latest recommendations. Off course you

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Teams – You can now use Sensitivity Labels with Microsoft Teams

As you may already know, Office 365 services supports sensitivity labels helping your and your organization classifying and protecting your IP’s (intellectual properties) with low productivity impact on your end-users. Using sensitivity labels you can ensure your content is either encrypted, marked (or labelled) and classified accordingly to your compliance requirements, either automatically or by

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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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