Author name: Benoit HAMET

Azure – Azure MFA will now be enabled by default and free

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As just announced at the Microsoft Ignite 2019 Conference, Azure Multi Factor Authentication (Azure MFA) will now be enabled by default for all new Azure AD (and Office 365 or Dynamics as they rely on Azure AD) tenant and will be also free for existing customers with the Microsoft Authenticator app (available on Android https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.azure.authenticator […]

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Azure AD – You can now ‘live try’ Conditional Access

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As you already know, Azure AD Conditional Access policies are one important component helping you securing access to your resources. Implementing Conditional Access policies is sometimes a little bit complicated as it may impact the ability of your users to access those resources. Well, good news, you can now enable a Report Only option when

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Azure – Azure Site Recovery can now clean up deallocated VM’s and NIC’s

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As you know, Azure Site Recovery (ASR) allows you to replicate your virtual machines (either from on-premise to Azure or between 2 Azure regions) to provide you disaster recovery if your primary site is failing. If you are using Azure Site Recovery to replicate between 2 Azure regions, when you fail back to your primary

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Azure – You can now define your own security policies in Azure Security Center

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As you may already know, Azure comes with security center a feature providing unified and centralized security management for Azure called Azure Security Center (ASC). Until now, Azure Security Center was providing only built-in security policies (either from Microsoft or to comply with regulatory standards). Well, good news, you can now define your very own

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Azure – You can now deploy Azure Monitor Application Insights Agent on Azure Virtual machine and Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets

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You may already know Azure Monitor Application Insights, which is an application performance management service for web developers, helping you gain insights about your application performance and reliability. Well, good news, you can now deploy Azure Monitor Application Insights as an agent (aka extension) on Azure Virtual Machines or Azure Virtual Machines Scale Sets when

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Azure – You can now use Azure Monitor to help troubleshooting network issues

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As you may have already experienced, troubleshooting network connectivity issues (either with Azure VNets or in hybrid configuration with VPN/Express Route back to on-premises) can be quite challenging. While Microsoft has been providing network troubleshooting capabilities (with Network Watcher), it is still a time consuming and difficult. Well, good news, you can now use Azure

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Teams – You can now define policy package

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As you already know you can define Teams policies (aka Messaging, Meeting, Application, Calling or Live Events policies) to define various settings for Teams client. This means for each Teams functionality you had/have to create a policy and then apply it to the users; which then could results in configuration/policy inconsistency as every policy is

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Teams – You can now use Teams Advisor to help you rollout Teams (preview)

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While Teams usage is growing, it can be difficult to properly start rolling out Microsoft Teams. Microsoft has deployed a new capability in Teams, called Teams Advisor, to help you rolling out and increase Teams usage. The Teams Advisor assess your Office 365 tenant to determine the most common configuration you may have to implement

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Azure – Azure Advisor is providing operational excellence advices

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By now, you should know Azure Advisor, the Azure feature giving you personalized advices based on your Azure implementation to help you following best practices for security and cost management. Well, now Azure Advisor is also able to give you specific advices to help you achieve Operational Excellence, helping you improving your process and workflows

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Power BI – The new EXE installer command lines

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As announced few weeks back (see https://t.co/Xe4cA1yQaw), the Power BI Desktop MSI package has been removed and replaced by an single EXE file available at https://aka.ms/PBISingleInstaller. If you are managing application deployment (by using SCCM [or any other software deployment solution] or Intune), this move is quite annoying. Well, I got you covered – well

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