As you know, you have been able to synchronize your user’s passwords with Azure AD Connect for quite some time now thanks to the password hash synchronization feature. However, there has been a small gap there: you were not able to get the “User must change password at next logon” attribute value synchronized to request […]
You may already have quite few scripts at your disposal to perform bulk actions on cloud user accounts and/or groups on Azure Active Directory (AAD). Well, maintaining (or using) these scripts is no longer a requirement as the Azure AD portal has been updated to allow you bulk actions on user accounts/groups. Bulk actions are
Recently I have been running a problematic 100% disk active time on my System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) environment. SCCM has been running quite smoothly for few years; running on Windows Server 2019 with SQL co-located. One day I noticed the disks, where the databases are save, were continuously active (100% disk active time) and
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It has been a long awaited capability: being able to give a complete read-access only to Azure AD/Office 365 administration. Well good news, a read-only administrative access role is coming – called Global Reader. The deployment will start on September 24 and scheduled to be completed by October. It worth noting that few limitations will
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The Outlook mobile application (iOS: https://apps.apple.com/app/microsoft-outlook/id951937596 – Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.microsoft.office.outlook) has been updated and allows you to reply to meeting request directly from the push notification.
For those who use Windows 95 to Windows XP, you may know the famous PowerToys for Windows, giving you more customization and powerfull tools (like TwekUI or Virtual Desktop Manager for Windows XP). Well, good new, the PowerToys are back with Windows 10. The first release includes a cheat sheet Windows key shortcut (this
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The Azure mobile application (iOS: https://apps.apple.com/au/app/microsoft-azure/id1219013620 – Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.microsoft.azure) has been updated and now simplifies management operations when you have multiple subscriptions. Previously, you had to switch between the subscription in your tenant to access the Azure resources in this subscription (as shown below) Now, you can enable the Multiple subscriptions mode (in preview) and
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As you may be aware, a new Windows analytics solution has been released in preview called Desktop Analytics few months ago (see https://t.co/VqQV4WRj83). Desktop Analytics is aimed to replace the well-known Windows Analytics which has been here for quite some time through 3 Log Analytics solutions: Upgrade Readiness, Update Compliance and Device Health. If you
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As you may already know, the Office 365 Video service is being replaced by Microsoft Stream. If you have been using Office 365 Video to publish videos, you can now start migrating it to Microsoft Stream using the self-service migration tool. If you don’t see it, you can request to register your tenant using the
UPDATE Oct 8th, 2019 it has been reported that some issues with Self-Service Password Reset (SSPR) and Hybrid Azure AD join have been reported. Microsoft has recommended to post-pone upgrading to the 1.4.18.0 version until root cause has been identified and solved. Regarding the SSPR, a new version has been already released for auto-upgrade only
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