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Intune – A microsoft Intune adoption pack is now available

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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)

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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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Azure – You can now consolidate your cost management for AWS in Azure (preview)

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Good news if you are using both Azure and Amazon Web Services (AWS) to host your workloads in cloud services: you can now have both your Azure and AWS cost reporting in the Azure Cost Management blade. You need to know this is free during the preview and then a 1% fee will incur at

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Exchange Online – You can now also use Azure Cloud Shell to connect to Exchange Online with PowerShell

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A new capability has been added to Azure Cloud Shell, you can now use it to also connect to Exchange Online with PowerShell. To remind you as there are maybe few (lot?) of Exchange administrator who do not know what is Azure Cloud Shell, this is the ability to connect to cloud resources (in this

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Azure – You can now get the operating system and the SKU/size of a VM directly from the portal

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An update which is going to make few things easier when working with virtual machine in the Azure portal has been deployed. You can now get the operating system running on the VM directly from the portal. Connect to your Azure portal (https://portal.azure.com) and reach out the Virtual Machines blade to select the VM you

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