The virtual machine name is now getting set by the name you define when creating the virtual machine using the portal. This is a simple thing but can simplify a lot the life of IT guys
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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
When in 1:1 or group chat, end-users can now get read receipts when their messages are read. Teams administrator can control if read receipts is enabled/disabled/user preference (default) from the Teams administration portal (https://admin.teams.microsoft.com) under the Messaging Policies
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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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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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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
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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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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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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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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