Author name: Benoit HAMET

Windows Server – Honolulu technical preview

As you may know, Microsoft has announced a new Windows Server management experience to manage on-premises system with the Honolulu project. The Honolulu project delivers a more modern interface for managing on-premises system through a web interface with no cloud footprint (no dependency what so ever with Azure or other clouds services). In this post […]

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Microsoft Teams – New audit logging

As Microsoft Teams is growing up, Microsoft is adding new functionalities or features. This time this is about audit logging to be updated. With the update currently being deployed, administrators will have the ability to audit additional Teams events in the compliance portal. This covers: Adding/Removing a bot Adding/Removing a tab Adding/Removing a connector Adding/Removing

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Exchange Online – Shared Calendar is coming on mobile devices

This has been long waited request: getting shared calendars available on mobile device. An update is currently being rolled out to Exchange Online which will make available on mobile shared calendar. Even better, the update is coming to support all type of permissions (read, edit or delegate). All new shared calendar invitation sent and accepted

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Azure – New version of the Azure Information Protection Client

A new version (1.10.56.0) of the Azure Information Protection Client has been released and is available for download at https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=53018. As part of this new release, you can now: enable recommended classification also for Outlook hide the Do Not Forward button in Outlook hide the custom permission options to end-user integrates with Office 365 DLP

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Windows 10 – Windows Defender Advanced Threat Protection

Windows Defender Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) is a security functionality built in Windows 10 to help detecting, investigating and protecting against threats, introduced with Windows 10 build 1607 (or known as Anniversary Build). In this post, I’m going to implement ATP integrated with SCCM Current Branch (you can request a trial for ATP here http://aka.ms/register-wdatp)

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Azure – New feature called Managed Service Identity

A new feature, primarily oriented for developers, has been released on Azure and is called Managed Service Identity. The idea is to be able to call a cloud services but hiding the credentials used (as you should do for any PowerShell scripts by the way ). After activating Azure Managed Service Identity, Azure will automatically

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Microsoft Teams – Guest access is now available

Microsoft Teams has been updated to allow guest access with external users. The guest access is working for anyone which has an Azure AD account (any other Azure AD or Office 365 tenants), no Microsoft account. The Guest access for Teams is not enabled by default.   Managing Guest access As usual Office 365 administrators

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Azure AD Connect – You can now re use existing AAD Connect database

A new version of Azure AD Connect has been released with an interesting new feature: you can now re use existing AAD Connect database. As you may know, the previous version did not allow you to re use existing database when deploying a new instance. With the new version (1.1.614.0) you can now re use

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SharePoint Online – Setting default permissions when sharing

An update is currently on his way (deployment starting September 2017 to be completed by end of October) which will allow Office 365 administrators to setup a default permission when end-users are sharing SharePoint Online/OneDrive for Business content. There has been already an updated to define the default sharing link type (direct, internal, anonymous), this

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Exchange Online – You may see a question mark in place of the photo

As explained in a blog post on MSDN, if you use Exchange Online (or Outlook.com) you may start seeing a question mark (?) in place of the photo/initial on received emails. Do not worry, this is an additional information level provided to end-user to protect themselves against spam or phishing. Microsoft is adding this additional

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