Author name: Benoit HAMET

SCCM – Integrate SCCM with OMS Update Management

If you are using SCCM and Azure OMS, you already know that you can integrate SCCM with OMS. But do you know you can leverage the OMS capabilities to manage updates with SCCM?   Prerequisites This is possible if you match the following requirements and apply the below configuration You must have an OMS workspace […]

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Azure – SQL Vulnerability Assessment

Microsoft has introduced a new feature to help you ensuring your Azure SQL services are secured. This feature is called SQL Vulnerability Assessment and is available on preview; the good news is you can also use it with your on-premises SQL servers. It has been designed in a way that even non security/SQL expert can

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Azure – Azure VNet DDoS protection

As announced at the Ignite Conference, a new Distributed Denial of Service protection has been added to Azure virtual network. This comes into 2 different offers: Basic and free Standard, providing custom and tuned protection based on your Azure Resource   To start using it you can register for the standard preview at http://aka.ms/ddosprotection (no

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Azure – Azure Analysis Services now support firewall

The Azure Analysis Services now support firewall, allowing you to lock down the connectivity between Azure Analysis and the defined source. To access and configure this functionality, you can go to the Azure Analysis Services blade, within the Settings section Toggle to switch from Off to On; you will see the default rule (in fact

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Azure – Storage Metric now available in preview

A new feature has been available in preview on Azure to help you analyze usage trend and diagnose issues with your storage account. You can access Storage Metric from the portal or use REST API. From the portal access the storage account you want to gather the metrics and access the Metrics blade; you will

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Azure – Manage updates for Azure Virtual Machine

You can now automate update management for Azure Virtual Machine in an easier way. Using Azure Automation, you can now better manage updates management for your virtual machine on Azure. Prerequisites An automation account (see https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/automation/automation-create-standalone-account for instruction if required) Virtual machine running on Azure ARM – Classic virtual machine are not supported – within

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SharePoint Online – OneDrive Announcements from Ignite

The following has been announced at the Ignite Conference for OneDrive: Coming on October 17th, Files On Demand. This feature was already announced as part of some Windows 10 Preview build. We now have an official date of delivery Silent Synch Auto Account Configuration, using Azure ADAL (Azure Active Directory Authentication Library), will support automatic

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Compliance – Microsoft has announced a compliance center

With all the cloud services and regulation/compliance requirements, it may difficult to ensure you are indeed matching yours. To help you with that, Microsoft already did a good job by providing documentations and guideline but now it going to go one step further. Microsoft has announced a Compliance Center covering the full Microsoft cloud services,

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ADFS – Resolve authentication issue faster

Authentication is a key to access corporate resources, hosted either on-premises (you can use ADFS to authenticate against Exchange to access your mailbox) or in the cloud (Office 365, Azure, Salesforce…). While Microsoft is working hard to make authentication process to his services a little bit easier for end-users (password synch, seamless single sign-on…), you

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