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Azure – You can trigger Azure File Sync synchronization when changes are done on Azure side

As you may already know, you can synchronize your on-premises file shares to Azure File Share using Azure File Sync. While changes made on your on-premises side are quickly synchronized to Azure File Share, this is not the same story when changes are made from Azure File Share; you have to wait the 24 hours […]

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Azure – You now have a centralized hub to manage all Azure SQL resources

As you know, Microsoft Azure provides you the ability to host SQL resources, from SQL database to Elastic Pools or SQL running on a virtual machine (not comprehensive). This makes it a little bit difficult to have a comprehensive view of all the Azure SQL resources you may be running as you have to switch

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Office 365 – It is now simpler to submit suspicious content to Microsoft for investigation

As you may already know, with Office 365 and Exchange Online you already had to the possibility to report suspicious content (in that case email) by using the Report Message add-in (an the other way around too if an email was identified as spam but was not). Well, now it is becoming simpler for Office

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Azure – The Security Center now provides ‘one click’ remediation (preview)

As you know, Azure integrates a security dashboard, called Azure Security Center (ASC), to help you have a bird view on the security state of your Azure (but not only as it also provides details from your on-premises) environment. The Azure Security Center has been updated to provide a ‘one click’ remediation (when available) when

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Intune – You can now install multiple Certificate Connector

As you may already know, you can use Intune to provide certificates to your clients/end-users for managing access and authentication to your corporate resources (like connecting to a WiFi network using certificate) using the Intune Certificate Connector. Until now, it was not possible to have more than one connector installed, making it a single point

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Azure – You can now use Cloud Shell from the Azure mobile application

Not sure since when it has been added but if you have installed the Azure mobile application (Android https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.microsoft.azure&hl=en or iOS https://apps.apple.com/us/app/microsoft-azure/id1219013620) you can now start and use Azure Cloud Shell (also available using a web browser at https://shell.azure.com/) To start using Cloud Shell from your Azure mobile app, just hit the Cloud Shell button

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Azure – The Azure datacenter IP ranges XML file is being deprecated

As you may already know, you were (still are) able to gather all Azure Datacenter IP ranges using XML if you had to manage firewall authorization to Azure services using an XML file (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=41653) Well, this service (the XML file) is being deprecated and removed by June 30, 2020. Instead you now have to use

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Teams – You can now send feedback directly to Microsoft from Teams

Microsoft Teams has been updated to include a new feature to allow end-user to send feedbacks directly to Microsoft about their Teams experience. The Give feedback feature is available by hitting the ? (question mark) sign bottom left from the Teams client   Administrators can disable this feature by creating a policy using the new

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Azure – You can now assign multiple public IP addresses to your Azure Firewall

You can now associate up to 100 public IP with your Azure Firewall. This allows you to implement more NAT scenario – Source NAT (SNAT) and/or Destination NAT (DNAT). A DNAT scenario will be translating the same communication port (let say TCP 443 for example) while targeting different internal host. A SNAT scenario will allows

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SharePoint Online – You can now swap sites

We all know that, SharePoint sites design and structure are define once and far all at at a specific time; meaning it is quite difficult to change later on the structure of sites. Well, good news, SharePoint Online is now allowing you to swap sites (aka site collections); the ‘original’ site will be archived. To

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