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Office 365 – Improved Office client activation is coming

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In late August, a new and improved activation process for Office client (aka Office Pro Plus or Office Click to Run) will be deployed. This new process will simplify the activation by automatically using the user’s credential to perform the activation (if single sign-on is enabled). It will also simplify the process if you have

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Azure – You can now configure your NSG with ICMP

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It has been a long awaited capability: being able to use Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) protocol when configuring Azure Network Security Groups (NSG). Well, now you can define ICMP protocol in your NSG; in addition of the TCP or UDP ones. Until now, if you had to allow/deny ICMP protocols you had to use

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Exchange Online – New parameter to manage third party storage for Outlook Web Access

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As you may already know you were/are able to authorize or block the use of third party storage providers – like Dropbox – and/or OneDrive (personal). To do so, you had 2 parameters to manage it OneDriveAttachmentsEnabled ThirdPartyFileProvidersEnabled Well, by August 30, these parameters will be replaced by a single one: AdditionalStorageProvidersAvailable This new parameter

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SCCM – You can now install application to a device from the console

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With the release of the new System Center Configuration Manager Current Branch 1906 (SCCM Current Branch), you can now install one or more applications to a device directly from the administration console. It is important to note that you need: to have the Approve application request for users per device optional feature enabled the application

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SCCM – You can now synchronize your device collections as Azure AD groups

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With the release of System Center Configuration Manager Current Branch 1906 (SCCM Current Branch), you can now synchronize your device collections to Azure Active Directory, allowing you to use your on-premises grouping rules to the cloud. This is a one way SCCM to Azure AD process; any membership updates done in Azure AD will not

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SCCM – You can now discover your Azure AD Security Groups with SCCM

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The release of System Center Configuration Manager Current Branch 1906 (SCCM Current Branch) is providing an updated discovery method to your Azure AD tenant. As you may be already aware, you have been able to discover your Azure AD users objects with SCCM for quite some time now. Well, this Azure AD discovery functionality has

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SCCM – You can now use different collection for piloting co-management workloads

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With the release of System Center Configuration Manager Current Branch 1906 (SCCM Current Branch), the co-management feature has been improved to allow you to define different device collection while piloting co-managed workloads. With the previous release you were able to pilot the co-management for specific workloads (compliance, device configuration, Windows Update…) but the piloting applied

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SCCM – System Center Configuration Manager Current Branch 1906 is now available

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The new release (1906) of System Center Configuration Manager Current Branch (SCCM Current Branch) is now available. As always it will be available for install from your SCCM administration console within the next few days but if you want to force the detection and install you can use the script available here http://download.microsoft.com/download/4/9/3/493BC9DE-ACAC-4D11-8B7E-5AFCECC626C2/EnableEarlyUpdateRing1906.exe This new

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Intune – Applying device profile on Windows 10 is now more granular

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As you now, with Intune you can apply device profiles to configure settings on your devices. With the latest Intune update, it is now possible to have more granularity to apply device configuration profiles on Windows 10 by defining to which Windows 10 version or edition the profile will apply. To start using this granularity,

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