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Azure – Azure MFA Server is going to be retired

As you may know Azure Multi Factor Authentication is (or was as per the below) also available for on-premises deployment (known as Azure MFA Server) to protect your on-premises systems (like remote desktop, VPN, web server or Exchange). Well, on July 1st 2019, Azure MFA will be no longer available for new deployment; existing deployment […]

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Azure – Azure Active Directory B2C is now supporting Apple ID

Azure Active Directory (AAD) B2C is supporting more and more third party identity services. After adding support for GitHub or WeChat, Azure AD B2C is now supporting Apple ID. This support comes following Apple’s announcement that all applications in the Apple App Store which support third-party sign-in will require to include Apple ID (see https://developer.apple.com/news/?id=06032019j).

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Teams – Stand out your post using the “Announcement” type

A new post type has been added to Microsoft Teams to help you pushing announcement or important message by standing out from the mass of messages If you want to publish an announcement in Teams, click on the Format button (bottom of conversation box) and switch from New conversation to Announcement   Then the conversation

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Azure – Shared Image Gallery for virtual machine is now available

It has been announced few months ago at the Microsoft Build 2019 conference. Shared Image Gallery is now generally available in all region, except South Africa as source region (details available here https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-machines/windows/shared-image-galleries#regional-support) With Shared Image Gallery you can now manage, share and distribute custom virtual machine images easily. There are few limits to be

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Intune – A microsoft Intune adoption pack is now available

As for many services or products, you can find an adoption pack to help you communicating with your end-users when deploying a new version or migrating to a new service. Now, you also have the same for Microsoft Intune. The adoption pack for Intune available here https://aka.ms/IntuneAdoptionKit contains the usual communication templates (emails, deployment guide…)

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Skype for Business 2019 – The first CU is now available

It was long expected update, the first cumulative update for Skype for Business Server 2019 has just been released and is now available for download. You can get it from http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=58347 The related KB 4470124 listing the installation steps and the issue fixed (yes, just a single issue; don’t know if this because the product

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Office 365 – The Adoption Resources center, your one shop for adoption documentation

A new central location for regrouping all adoption documentation for Office 365 services is now live at https://aka.ms/microsoftadoption You can find there the latest and updated adoption documentation for Office 365 services, like Microsoft Office 365 Adoption Guide, the new security and compliance toolkit or Teams governance. Start enjoying this location for your adoption journey

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Teams – You can now define holidays

Microsoft Teams now allows you to define your organization holidays (aka the period your organization is shutting down and won’t be available for business). This can be linked with auto-attendant you may have configured for voice capabilities. To start using it and configure your next organization time off, go to your Teams administration portal (https://admin.teams.microsoft.com)

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Security – The Microsoft Attack Surface Analyzer, version 2.0, is now available

For those working in securing Windows environment, from both configuration and development side, you should already know the Attack Surface Analyzer (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=24487). Well, good news, after quite some waiting (about 7 years since this has been first released), a new version of the Attack Surface Analyzer has been released and is available now on GitHub

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Azure – Better troubleshooting tools for Azure Web Apps (preview)

As you know, you can host web applications on Azure using Azure Application Services (also called Azure Web Apps). From time to time, something may goes wrong and the web application stops servicing request in a way or another. This has always been a difficult troubleshooting task as there are so many different components and

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