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Exchange Online – Connected Account functionality is going to be deprecated

Leave a Comment / Exchange, Office 365 / Benoit HAMET / August 15, 2018 / Connected Account, Exchange Online, ExO, Office 365

The Connected Account functionality, available on Exchange Online, allowing end-users to connect to external mail accounts (like Outlook.com or Gmail) to receive (and send) their emails using their Exchange Online mailbox is going to be deprecated. Starting September 2018, all new mailbox on Exchange Online will no longer have the “Connected account” available, while the […]

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Office 365 – End users can now delete their FindTime data

Leave a Comment / Office 365 / Benoit HAMET / August 10, 2018 / FindTime, Office 365

If your users are using FindTime, they can now delete their data on FindTime. NOTE this will delete all data (aka open/cancelled/completed pools) as well as their FindTime account. They will be able to relink their account with FindTime but the deleted data is unrecoverable. To delete your FindTime data, you need to logon

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Azure – Workshops available to learn Cosmos DB

Leave a Comment / Microsoft Azure / Benoit HAMET / August 9, 2018 / Azure, Azure Cosmos DB, Cosmos DB

Want to learn Azure Cosmos DB but don’t know where to start? So, you are lucky, free/self learning workshops are available to start learning Cosmos DB at https://cosmosdb.github.io/labs/ The workshop is composed with 4 labs, plus intro and clean up You will need to use a Windows 10 x64 version with the .Net Framework 4.5.1

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Azure – New version of the Developer’s Guide is now available

Leave a Comment / Microsoft Azure / Benoit HAMET / August 9, 2018 / Azure, eBook

The updated version of the free ebook “Developer’s Guide to Azure” is now available – in PDF, EPub or Mobi. The ebook covers: Chapter 1: The Developer’s Guide to Azure Chapter 2: Getting started with Azure Chapter 3: Securing your application Chapter 4: Adding intelligence to your application Chapter 5: Working with and understanding IoT

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SCCM – You can now deploy updates without package

Leave a Comment / System Center / Benoit HAMET / August 7, 2018 / SCCM, SCCM Current Branch, System Center, System Center Configuration Manager, System Center Configuration Manager Current Branch, Updates deployment

With the latest update of System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) Current Branch (build 1806), you can deploy updates without creating a package to be deployed. When you choose to deploy the updates without a package, the client will download the updates from Windows Update servers. The option is available when you create (or edit) an

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Azure – Azure Security Center playbooks

Leave a Comment / Microsoft Azure, Security / Benoit HAMET / August 7, 2018 / ASC, Azure, Azure SC, Azure Security Center, Security

4 new playbooks to demonstrate Azure Security Center capabilities are available. With these 4 playbooks you can demonstrate/evaluate Azure Security Capabilities to protect your Azure resources against virus attack, SQL injection, DDoS on public IP or cross site scripting. You can deploy the playbooks from the following URL to your Azure tenant: Virus attack playbook

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Office 365 – New user deletion process for cloud user objects

Leave a Comment / Exchange, Office 365, SharePoint / Benoit HAMET / August 6, 2018 / Departed User, Exchange Online, ExO, ODfB, Office 365, OneDrive, OneDrive for Business, User Management

If you do not use the directory synchronization (Azure AD Connect) to manage your user accounts in Office 365 (creation, update, deletion), this is for you. The user account deletion process has been updated in Office 365 to give the opportunity to define what to do with licenses and data. The next time (please keep

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Azure – You can now convert/migrate virtual machine with unmanaged disks to managed disks

Leave a Comment / Microsoft Azure / Benoit HAMET / August 3, 2018 / Azure, Azure Virtual Machine, Azure VM, Managed Disks, Unmanaged Disks

If you are using Azure Virtual Machine and have configure it to use unmanaged disks, you can now migrate to managed disks without having to delete and recreate the virtual machine. The below list gives you some good reason to move to managed disks: Scale your application without worrying about storage account limits Achieve high-availability

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Office 365 – A multi blog posts to read about Office 365 ATP and the phishing protection

Leave a Comment / Exchange, Office 365 / Benoit HAMET / August 3, 2018 / Advanced Threat Protection, ATP, Exchange, Exchange Online, ExO, Office 365, Office 365 Advanced Threat Protection, Office 365 ATP, Protection

A very good multi-part / multi-post reading about Office 365 Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) and the anti-phishing capabilities https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/cloudready/2018/07/31/introduction-email-phishing-protection-guide-enhancing-your-organizations-security-posture/

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Azure – You can choose Basic or Advanced options for NSG when creating a virtual machine

Leave a Comment / Microsoft Azure / Benoit HAMET / August 3, 2018 / Azure, Azure Virtual Machine, Azure VM, Network Security Group, NSG

When you create a virtual machine on Azure using the Azure portal, you can now choose between Basic or Advanced when setting up the Network Security Group (NSG). The Basic option let you select which default ports (HTTP, HTTPS, RDP, SQL…) to allow (keeping in mind that this/these port(s) will be exposed to the internet)

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