Author name: Benoit HAMET

Azure – Azure Backup integrated with VM creation process

Azure Backup is now being integrated with the virtual machine creation process. This means you can immediately apply a backup policy when creating your virtual machine on Azure. When you create a new virtual machine you will have the ability to define the backup policy; the option will be available when setting up the virtual […]

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Azure – You can evaluate your Conditional Access before testing

Setting up Conditional Access on Azure can be a little bit tricky and may result in loosing access to the resource. Off course you can (and should always) test the configuration before putting into production, but even then this is time consuming. Now, you can evaluate your Conditional Access configuration before testing it with the

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OneDrive for Business – ODfB client now synching RMS protected SharePoint libraries

The latest version of the OneDrive for Business client (17.3.7294.0108) now allows you to synchronize SharePoint Online RMS protected libraries. To take advantage of this new functionality, just ensure you are running at least the referenced version (17.3.7294.0108) of OneDrive for Business client. If not, just get it from https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/p/?linkid=844652 (only if you do not

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Exchange Online–Clearing for good previous mailbox information

This update will be very interesting for migration context to Exchange Online – may be other situation too but can’t see it right now. Microsoft is introducing a new parameter to the Set-User command to permanently remove previous Exchange Online details. Imagine the following scenario: User have Exchange On Premises mailbox You have Azure AD

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Exchange Online – Real preview of quarantine emails

As you may already know, you had the ability to have a preview of a quarantine email before deciding what to do. But this preview was basically raw data (plain view), meaning if the email was in HTML format you basically got the HTML code displayed, making it complicated to review it. An update has

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Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT) 8450 is now available

The latest and new release of Deployment Toolkit (MDT) for Windows is now available for download at ​https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=54259 This version supports Windows 10 build 1709 (Fall Creator Update) and SCCM current branch (1710), as well as includes some fixes like: Win10 Sideloaded App dependencies and license not installed CaptureOnly task sequence doesn’t allow capturing an

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Office 365 – It is time to move from TLS 1.0 and 1.1

In order to improve the security, Office 365 services are going to stop supporting Transport Layer Security (TLS) 1.0 and 1.1 If you are in hybrid scenarios (either with Exchange or Skype for Business) and/or if you use AD FS for your authentication services, you need to ensure your on-premises services supports TLS 1.2 Starting

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Azure – Another security problem with Azure AD Connect

It has just been published (December 12th, 2017), a new potential security hole in Azure AD Connect (at least version 1.1.649.0, the advisory bulletin does not specify the impacted version(s)) which could leads the Azure AD Connect service account with insufficient restriction when Azure AD Connect automatically creates it. See the advisory bulleting available at

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Exchange Online – Clutter end of life date

This has been announced some time ago already (July 2016); Clutter is going to be deprecated and eventually removed and replaced by Focused Inbox. Now, we have an official end of life date for Clutter: this will be January 31, 2020. So you still have some time to communicate to your end-users, update your support

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SCCM – You can now easily identify devices with pending reboot

UPDATE additional information and screenshots after Patch Tuesday This has always been a nightmare for sysadmins, identifying devices with pending reboot. Now with SCCM, it becomes easier. The latest update for SCCM Current Branch (build 1710) has a new column to use in the Console\Devices to identify such devices with pending reboot To get this

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