You may already know that you can define naming policy for your Office 365 Groups, which also applies to Microsoft Teams. Until now, this was done by connection with PowerShell. Now, you can manage (create/update) your naming policy as well as the blocked words list from your Azure AD portal. Connect to your Azure (https://portal.azure.com) […]
A new Microsoft Teams creation process has been added to help you creating new Teams. The option allows you to reuse an existing Teams or Office 365 Groups to select as ‘template’ when creating a new Teams Off course, the first requirement is to be already owner of at least one Teams or Office 365
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You may already know this is a best practice to get your users registered for Azure Multi Factor Authentication (MFA) and Self Service Password Reset (SSPR). That said, the registration requires your end-user to provide sensitive information (phone number, external email address…) to help the system to properly identify them during the registration process –
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Starting June 17, 2019, the OneDrive client will allow B2B (Business to Business) – see https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/onedrive/b2b-sync – libraries and folders. This means end-users will be able to use OneDrive client to synchronize content from other organization they have been invited to. In addition, the ADMX (group policy definition) file for OneDrive has been updated to
Until today, when you were setting up a cloud password on Office 365 or Azure Active Directory (AAD), you were not able to use more than 16 characters. NOTE this limitation did apply to synchronized password. Now, this limitation has been removed; you can set your password by using up to 256 characters, with a
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You can now use the Fast Shutdown capability to turn off virtual machine on Azure. This option is available by using Azure Cli (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/cli/azure/install-azure-cli?view=azure-cli-latest) with the command az vm stop –resource-group MyResourceGroup –name MyVm –skip-shutdown As always you can use either the Azure Cli on your client or use the Azure Cloud Shell
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As you may be aware, Secure Score has been there for a while already, helping you understand your security posture on Office 365 and helping you improving it. Now, after the release of the new Microsoft Office Security Center (https://security.microsoft.com), Secure Score has moved to a new home hosted in this portal (https://security.microsoft.com/securescore?viewid=overview). Don’t get
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You can now use Ephemeral OS disk in Azure Virtual Machine (Azure VM) when you are concern on the time taken to deploy at scale or reimage a virtual machine while not concerned with data (aka stateless workloads). The good point with Ephemeral OS disk is there is no storage cost associate with and it
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4 new administration roles have been available (in preview) for Azure Active Directory (AAD) B2C: B2C User Flow Administrator: allows to delegate user flows in Azure AD B2C administration B2C User Flow Attribute Administrator: allows to delegate user attributes in Azure AD B2C administration B2C IEF Keyset Administrator: allows delegation for Azure AD B2C key
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The latest version of Azure PowerShell module (Az module version 2.0) is available. IMPORTANT please note this version is a breaking change for existing Az.Compute and Az.HDInsight cmdlets (see https://github.com/Azure/azure-powershell/blob/master/documentation/migration-guides/Az.2.0.0-migration-guide.md to manage the migration). This release provides lot of new/improved/fix cmdlets, from authentication with AD FS to Websites, through Azure FrontDoor support, monitor for SQR
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