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OneDrive – End-user can now request support from Microsoft from the client

Leave a Comment / Office 365, SharePoint / Benoit HAMET / May 7, 2019 / O365, OdB, ODfB, Office 365, OneDrive, OneDrive for Business

The latest version of the OneDrive client (19.043.0304.0007) includes the capability for your end-user to request support from Microsoft directly. Using the More.. menu, accessible by right-clicking on the OneDrive icon in the systray, they can now open a support request to get assistance from Microsoft using the Get help As administrator you can disable […]

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Azure – Retirement and replacement of specific features in Azure Security Center

Leave a Comment / Microsoft Azure, Security / Benoit HAMET / May 3, 2019 / ASC, Azure, Azure Log Analytics, Azure Security, Azure Security Center, Azure Sentinel, Log Analytics, Security, Security Center, Sentinel

By July 31st, 2019, the following legacy features in Azure Security Center (ASC) will removed and replaced in either Azure Log Analytics or Azure Sentinel: Events Search Classic Identity & Access dashboard Threat intelligence dashboard Investigation flow in security alerts Edit security configuration settings for security policies Security and audit dashboard in Log Analytics You

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Azure AD – You can easily and automatically manage access to groups, applications and SharePoint sites for your users (internal and external)

Leave a Comment / Azure Active Directory, Beta / Preview / Benoit HAMET / May 1, 2019 / AAD, Azure, Azure Active Directory, Azure AD, Governance, Identity, Identity and Access Management, Identity Governance, Identity Management

As part of the identity and access control management on Azure AD, you can now use Azure AD Entitlement (also known as Azure AD Identity Governance) (in preview) to easily and automatically manage access to your groups or applications by your users, both internal (corporate) or external (guest). By using Azure AD Entitlement, you can

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Microsoft Teams – You can now set policies to prevent users or groups to communicate with each other

Leave a Comment / Beta / Preview, Microsoft Teams, Office 365 / Benoit HAMET / May 1, 2019 / Information Barrier, Information Barriers, Microsoft Teams, SCC, Security & Compliance Center, Security and Compliance, Security and Compliance Center, Teams

If you work in an environment where some information must not be shared with other departments or group of users – such as financial institution where people working on a deal, communication about this deal should not be shared with other departments to avoid potential conflict of interest, Teams now allows you to set a

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Azure AD – New Session control settings available in preview for Conditional Access

Leave a Comment / Azure Active Directory / Benoit HAMET / April 29, 2019 / AAD, AAD Conditional Access, Azure, Azure Active Directory, Azure Active Directory Conditional Access, Azure AD, Azure AD Conditional Access, Conditional Access, Persistent Browser Session, Sign-In Frequency

2 new settings have been introduced for the Session Control in Azure AD Conditional Access: Sign-in frequency: defines the time period before a user is asked to sign-in again when attempting to access a resource. This means that if the security posture of the authentication session has not changed, users will be asked to re-authenticate

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Azure AD – You can now use group claims in SAML and OIDC/Oauth token

Leave a Comment / Azure Active Directory / Benoit HAMET / April 29, 2019 / AAD, AAD Application, Azure, Azure Active Directory, Azure Active Directory Application, Azure AD, Azure AD Application

When publishing application using Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS) or other identity provider, you often use group membership as claim is a user’s token. Until now, this was not possible to use group membership as claim in Azure AD Application; now you can To start using group membership claim for your Azure AD Application,

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Azure – The new Azure File Sync update is available

Leave a Comment / Microsoft Azure / Benoit HAMET / April 29, 2019 / Azure, Azure File Sync

The latest update for Azure File Sync (6.0.0.0) – the file synchronization tool from your on-premises shares to Azure File – is available here https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=858257). This new version (also available as an update in Windows Update/WSUS) includes few new capabilities like: auto update agent. With this version, the Azure File Sync agent is now able

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Azure / Office 365 – The new Azure AD Connect is here

Leave a Comment / Microsoft Azure, Office 365 / Benoit HAMET / April 27, 2019 / AAD Connect, Azure, Azure Active Directory Connect, Directory Sync, Directory Synchronization, O365, Office 365

As announced about a month ago (see https://t.co/OSCGCkdwMl), the new Azure Active Directory Connect (AAD Connect), the directory synchronization tool, is finally here. You can get it from https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=615771 The complete list of new feature and bug fixes as below: New features and improvements Add support for Domain Refresh Exchange Mail Public Folders feature goes

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Azure AD – You can now use Directory Roles when configuring Conditional Access

Leave a Comment / Azure Active Directory, Beta / Preview, Microsoft Intune, Security / Benoit HAMET / April 26, 2019 / AAD, Azure Active Directory, Azure AD, Conditional Access, Directory Roles

As you know, Azure AD Conditional Access allows you to define conditions to allow or block access to Azure/Office 365 resource (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/conditional-access/overview). When configuring such conditional access, you define to which set of users/groups this apply (or not – aka exclude). Now, you can apply the conditional access policy by using the Directory Roles to

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SharePoint / Teams – Self-Recovery feature on SharePoint and Teams

Leave a Comment / Microsoft Teams, Office 365, SharePoint / Benoit HAMET / April 25, 2019 / File Restore, Microsoft Teams, O365, Office 365, Restore, SharePoint, SharePoint Online, SPO, Teams

After providing ability to restore OneDrive for Business files (we are not talking about the recycle bin here), Microsoft is now providing the same feature for SharePoint Online library and Microsoft Teams. This feature will be relevant in situation like when you suspect your files have been corrupted and/or infected by malware (let say like

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