If you ever wanted to learn about Azure Stack but don’t have the resources or infrastructure to do so by yourself? Then, this is for you An online training is available to learn Azure Stack at https://openedx.microsoft.com/courses/course-v1:Microsoft+INF240x+2018_T2 You just need to have a registered account with Microsoft Learning; if you don’t have one yet, register […]
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Microsoft has introduced a new security feature in Azure, in preview, called Azure Firewall. Azure Firewall is going to help you protect your Azure vNET. Like with other on-premises firewall solutions, Azure Firewall supports: FQDN filtering Traffic filtering rules SNAT support Integration with Azure Monitor logging (diagram courtesy Microsoft) As this is a preview,
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As you may know (otherwise, this is it, you know ), SQL Server 2008/2008 R2 is going out of support in July 2019 (https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/lifecycle/search/14917), while Windows Server 2008 is going to be out of support in January 2020 (https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/lifecycle/search/12925). To help you migrate your workloads still running on these systems, Microsoft is extending the security
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A new capability has been added to Azure: Azure NetApp Files. Microsoft has teamed up with NetApp to help customers embracing the challenge of deploying file-based workloads on Azure. The public preview is now available at http://aka.ms/nfspublicpreview The Azure NetApp Files service is powered by the NetApp’s ONTAP technology to deliver rich data management and
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It has just been announced, Microsoft Teams goes free… The free version allows users with no commercial Office 365 offers to collaborate with up to 300 people, using up to 10 Gb of file storage (with 2 Gb additional per user). Off course, this free version of Teams also integrates with Office Online Apps to
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You may already well know the Azure Multi Factor (MFA) and Azure Self Service Password Reset (SSPR) features; if not you are missing a very good piece of your Azure AD/Office 365 services. Well, a new registration experience for Azure MFA and Azure SSPR is currently being in preview to simply the end-user registration experience.
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Ok, this one is related to some ‘old’ server product, Lync 2013, but I have an excuse: there is a major reminder coming with it So the latest Cumulative Update for Lync Server 2013 (CU10) has been released (available here https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=36820), but this is not the major reminder; the major reminder is this is the
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This is an important announcement I already announced in April that Microsoft was introducing a new way to provide Office 365 endpoints details (IP addresses ranges for each services) using web services (see http://blog.hametbenoit.info/2018/04/04/office-365-new-and-better-way-to-manage-office-365-services-ip-addresses-updates) Well, it has now be announced that the existing RSS and XML services providing the same information are going to be
You may be already aware that Microsoft has introduced a migration tool to help you assess and migrate your VMWare virtual machines to Azure workloads called Azure Migrate. Now, Azure Migrate is evolving to the v2 (in preview) which will includes Hyper-V virtual machines assessment and migration too. The v2 will also introduce some improvements
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Until the last Intune update (week of July 2, 2018), when you were setting up a Windows 10 Device Compliance Policy you were obliged to use Windows Defender as local antivirus solution if you wanted to set an antivirus solution is required to be marked as compliant. After this update, you can now set this
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