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Azure – Manage updates for Azure Virtual Machine

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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

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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

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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

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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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Azure – PowerShell in Azure Cloud Shell now in preview

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As you may know, some time ago Microsoft has released a cool feature on the Azure portal called Azure Cloud Shell. This feature is now supporting PowerShell (in preview) allowing you to run PS command directly from the portal Choose to use a PowerShell experience in Cloud Shell as an alternative to the existing Bash

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Office 365 – New administration features coming up

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It has been announced at the Ignite conference, the Office 365 administration experience is evolving. You are going to get: more focused experience as every administrators may not need to have the same information level on a regular basis (user administrators may not need to have the health information while a service administrators may not

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Teams – Audio Conferencing available in preview in Microsoft Teams

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Microsoft Teams is evolving again by adding Audio Conferencing capabilities. Users licensed for Audio Conferencing (formerly called PSTN Conferencing) will automatically have the dial in feature available in their Teams. You can learn more about it here https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/MicrosoftTeams/audio-conferencing

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Azure – Azure DDoS Protection Service

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A new security feature has been added to Azure called Azure DDoS Protection Service. This new service is integrated with Virtual Networks to protect you against DDoS attacks. It comes into 2 service levels: Azure DDoS Protection Basic Service with no additional cost associated and does not requires any configuration or application changes Azure DDoS

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Exchange Online – FindTime is getting easier to use with Outlook on the Web

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You may know an add-in has – called FindTime – been developed for some time already to help organizing meetings by settings a pool to get availability from participants (especially external ones). Now FindTime is getting easier to use with Outlook on the Web (or OWA) by getting available directly (without using the add-in) when

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