Author name: Benoit HAMET

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

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

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

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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Azure – The Azure mobile application got refreshed

As you may already know, the Azure mobile app (for Android https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.microsoft.azure and iOS https://apps.apple.com/app/microsoft-azure/id1219013620) helps you to keep an eye on your Azure resources while you are on the go. Well, after the Azure portal getting a refresh, this is now the mobile app to get a refreshed and clearer interface. Next time you

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Azure AD Connect / ADFS – You can now stage your migration from AD FS (preview)

When you are moving to cloud services (in this case Office 365 and/or Azure Active Directory/Azure), it is important that the authentication process is working seamlessly when you are moving away from federated authentication services (AD FS, Okta…) to cloud authentication. This means you need to be able to test and validate the process. Until

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OneDrive – You can now markup a PDF copy of an Office document

The OneDrive mobile application for Android allows you to create a PDF copy of an Office document (Word, Excel or PowerPoint) and leverage the markup capabilities to highlight or make note to the document without changing the original one. To start using it you need (of course) the OneDrive for Android mobile application (available here

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Exchange Online – A new enhanced filtering settings

As you are aware, properly configured inbound connectors to Exchange Online is very important to ensure proper and secure mail flow (including capability to fight against spam and phishing emails). While the trusted source is usually identified as the IP address(es), in complex scenario – such as third party hygiene solution, Exchange Hybrid implementation or

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Exchange Online – A new administration role is being deployed: Quarantine Administrator

This was a missing role since the beginning of Office 365 and Exchange Online to allow the delegation of the administration of the quarantine. Before you had to create your very own Exchange Role with the correct permissions – Mail Recipient, Message Tracking, Transport Hygiene and View-Only Configuration (which was not easy to find as

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Azure – Service Map is now available in more region

You may already know Azure Service Map, an add-on component (Dependency agent)  running on top of the Azure Log Analytics agent providing you more insight for your applications/servers by analysing connectivity flows. It is also recommended to use it when using Azure Migrate to assess your on-premises servers when preparing for Azure migration. To know

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Office – New GPO settings available to give easier access to Insider option

As you know, Office 365 Pro Plus (aka Office Click to Run) can be enabled to join the Office Insider program in order to get early access to new features – like the Windows Insider program for Windows 10. Until then, application administrators did not had much choice to enable/disable and lock down the access

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