Author name: Benoit HAMET

Office 365 – You can now get email notification from the Service Health dashboard

As you already know, Office 365 provides a service dashboard helping you to be aware of any service issue. That said, this service dashboard may be unavailable when the issue is affecting the authentication process (either authentication itself or MFA services). Well, you can now have email notification when some services are degraded or are […]

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Azure – The azure portal menu has been refreshed

The Azure portal menu (aka your favourites menu) has been refreshed and now can be hidden, or flyout, giving you more space for your dashboard. The next time you logon to your Azure portal (https://portal.azure.com) you will be greaten by the below prompt asking you to choose between the flyout (Ok) or the docking mode.

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Teams – You can now post in multiple channel at once

Sometime, you need to post message to multiple Teams channels. Until now you had to re write all the time (or a copy/paste) your post across all the channels you wanted to post to. Well, good news, Teams now allows you to post in multiple channel at once. To do that, open your Teams client

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Exchange / Azure Information Protection – Sensitivity labels can now be applied when using OWA and/or Outlook Mobile

As you may know Azure Information Protection (AIP) provides the capability to define and apply sensitivity labels on documents and emails (when using Outlook client). Good new, the AIP sensitivity labelling capability is now available also on Outlook Web Access (OWA) – aka Outlook on the Web – and Outlook Mobile. When you write an

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Exchange Online – You can now RSVP instantly when using OWA

After becoming available on Outlook Mobile (see https://t.co/1LcJGaBI8j), you can now also instantly reply to an meeting request when you are using Outlook Web Access (aka Outlook on the Web). Just select the meeting invite and you will immediately get the options to reply (Yes, Maybe, No, Propose another time with the possibility to add

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Azure AD – You can now enable default security settings for Azure AD

DISCLAIMER it needs to be carefully review before implementing as it will enforce the security configuration. Microsoft has release an option to simply and automatically enabled a default security configuration on Azure AD; this includes: Enforcement of MFA for privileged accounts – all administrator types account), All users are required to be registered for MFA

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Outlook Mobile – You can now use SMIME on Outlook Mobile

After being able to add a shared mailbox on Outlook mobile (see https://t.co/MkG56cl1TT), another long awaited feature is now available on your Outlook mobile application: the use of SMIME. To start using, you need of course an SMIME certificate – I will not go in details there on how or where to get SMIME certificates,

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Azure – You can now have your Azure portal dashboard to auto refresh

It has been a long awaited feature for dashboards on Azure portal: getting the dashboard to auto refresh. Well, good news, the auto refresh capability for dashboard is now available in Azure portal. To start enabling this auto refresh feature, logon to your Azure portal (https://portal.azure.com), select the dashboard you want to use and check

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Intune – You can now define policy sets (preview)

As you know, you can define policies to applications and devices using Intune to ensure minimum requirements, compliance and define various configuration settings. Until now, you had to create and assign policies (to devices, users or application) one by one. Well, good news, you can now start creating policy sets to apply these policies from

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Windows – The November update for Windows 10 – aka 1909 – is now available in MSDN

The new release of Windows 10 – aka November update, aka 1909 – is now available in MSDN for download. This means you can start evaluating the new release and a general availability – from the Microsoft download and WindowsUpdate – is coming very soon.

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