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Teams – You can connect to Azure pipelines using Teams

You can now connect to your Azure Pipelines from Microsoft Teams. To do so, add the Azure Pipelines application in your Teams by accessing the Teams app catalog and search for Azure Pipelines (or Azure, or Pipelines) – you can also browse the Productivity category Then select the Teams where the Pipelines app will be

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Windows 10 – The new Windows 10 version, 1903, is now available

  This is a rap, Windows 10 1903 is now officially available.   You can get it either using through WindowsUpdate server, Windows Update for Business, Visual  Studio subscription (aka MSDN), Software Center (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10) and Volume License.   As part of this availability, you also have the Windows Assessment Toolkit (ADK) used for OS deployment

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Microsoft Defender – Microsoft Defender Advanced Threat Protection is now available in public preview for MacOS

After a limited preview earlier in March, Microsoft Defender Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) is now available in public preview for MacOS devices. To get this preview, you need to have first turn the preview feature in your Security Center portal (see https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/security/threat-protection/microsoft-defender-atp/preview) All the documentation is available here https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/security/threat-protection/windows-defender-antivirus/microsoft-defender-atp-mac You can on-board Mac devices from

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Azure AD – New conditional access policies in preview

After providing in preview an Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) Conditional Policy to request MFA for administrator accounts (which by the way is now GA), Microsoft is providing 3 new pre-configured conditional access policies in preview: Baseline policy: End user protection, to help protecting your end-users. It will require Azure Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) during risky

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Azure AD Connect – Potential vulnerability in version 1.3.20.0

A vulnerability in Azure Active Directory Connect (Azure AD Connect), the directory synchronization tool for Office 365/Azure AD, version 1.3.20.0 (the latest one released last late April) has been found. This vulnerability may lead to an elevation of privileges, under specific conditions, allowing an attacker to execute 2 PowerShell cmdlets in the context of a

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Azure – UEFI-based boot virtual machine now available in preview

Good new, the long awaited UEFI-based boot support for Azure virtual machine is now available in preview. The UEFI-based boot support was added to on-premises Hyper-V since Windows Server 2012 R2, quite long time ago and since then we have been waiting for this on Azure. The new generation (aka generation 2) of Azure virtual

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Azure AD – New social identity providers are available for Azure AD B2C

As you may know, Azure Active Directory (AAD) is not only used to manage corporate identity and access but you can also rely on Azure AD capabilities to manage your consumer identity when integrated with your applications or web sites. This is Azure AD B2C (Business to Consumer). Well good news, there are quite few

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Azure AD – You can now writeback from Azure AD to Workday

As you may know, Microsoft and Workday have been working pretty hard to make Workday integration with Azure Active Directory (AAD) as seamless as possible. This integration now goes one step further as you can writeback from Azure AD to Workday. This means if an attribute is updated on Azure AD, you can get the

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Office 365 – New security management tool available in preview

A new security tool is now available in preview in Office 365 called Security Policy Advisor. The Security Policy Advisor is providing recommendations to help improve and increase security of your Office 365 ProPlus deployment to protect you against threats and provide insights on impact of deploying policies. The Security Policy Advisor can be used

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