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Office 365 / Azure AD – New administration roles available

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As Office 365 and Azure AD are evolving, the need for more granular administration role is more and more important. 2 new administration roles have been introduced to reduce the need for more elevated privileges: Information Protection Administrator: to grant all Azure Information Protection (AIP) administration aspects without granting global administrator permission. This covers Azure […]

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Exchange – New capabilities in for HCW Hybrid Agent

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As you may be aware, the Exchange Hybrid Configuration Wizard (HCW) is evolving and is currently proposing an ‘Hybrid Agent’ mode in preview (see https://t.co/lRmjI6r6Dv). Well, the Hybrid Agent preview has been updated and is now providing more capability: Multi agent support: you can now deploy more than one Hybrid Agent in your environment Manual

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Exchange – The April Security Update (KB4487563) for Exchange 2019 fails to install

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It is this time again, the monthly patch release from Microsoft. This month a security update for Exchange 2019, 2016 and 2013. Problem is the patch (may) failed to install on Exchange 2019 (don’t know for 2016 and 2013 as I don’t have these version anymore), leaving Exchange in a bad shape as the services

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Azure – Group targeting for Azure Update Management is in GA

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Group targeting for Azure Update management is now in general availability. This feature allows you to define how updates are being deployed on your virtual machine based on dynamic settings. This will simplify the patch management process by automatically deploying update when the criteria is meet. To start using this capability, you first need to

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Office 365 – A new service is coming in Office 365: Kaizala

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You may already have heard about Kaizala (https://products.office.com/en/business/microsoft-kaizala), a simple chat solution for work – allowing communication between people inside and outside of your organization directory using mobile phone and phone number-based identity. This has been first released to selected marker (mainly India). Now, it is becoming an integrated member of the Office 365 family

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Azure – Azure DevOps Server 2019 is now GA

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After being announced earlier last September, Azure DevOps Server 2019 (formerly Team Foundation Server – TFS) is now available in general availability. Azure DevOps can be deployed on any Azure environment and includes Azure Repos, Azure Pipelines, Azure Test Plan and even integration with GitHub Enterprise. Azure DevOps Server is available in Express edition for

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Security – Microsoft Graph Security PowerShell module is now available

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If you work with Azure and/or Office 365, you may already have heard about Microsoft Graph and Microsoft Graph Security. Well, good new a PowerShell module for Microsoft Graph Security is now available https://www.powershellgallery.com/packages/MicrosoftGraphSecurity/1.0.0 As always with PowerShell modules available from the PowerShell gallery, you can install it using the command from a elevated PowerShell

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Azure – Azure Front Door is now GA and WAF for AFD in preview

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Azure Front Door Service (AFD), the new Azure capability providing fast and secure entry points to your web applications hosted on Azure, which was in preview for about a year, is now generally available. AFD includes SSL offloading, URL redirect and rewrite, HTTP/2, IPv6 or session affinity. You can start using/evaluating it thanks to this

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Teams – You can now manage Teams Apps

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It has been announced some time ago already but it is taking more time to get it. In the Teams administration portal (https://admin.teams.microsoft.com) you now have the ability to manage the Teams app and control how applications are displayed (and available) to your users. Logon to your Teams administration portal and reach out to the

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Azure AD – Azure AD Password Protection is now GA

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You may already know that for quite some time there has been a new Azure security feature in preview called Azure AD Password Protection to help protect you against password based attacks and restrict the usage of bad/too well known password (see https://t.co/PnWZiWbWic) Well, the feature is now generally available. If you have been using

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