Author name: Benoit HAMET

SCCM – Identify Azure AD Joined device

UPDATE this post has an updated version here https://t.co/W3AUonuSR9 Following my post to create an SCCM device collection for Windows Core (https://t.co/ZGdL91Vkht), I wanted to do the same to identify all Azure AD Joined device. So the first thing was to find how to identify an Azure AD Joined device; and the answer is with […]

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Exchange Online – You can delete mails from the quarantine

As Exchange Online administrator, you should review from time to time what is being put in the Exchange Online Protection quarantine. Now, in addition of the usual Release and Release & Report to release inappropriately quarantined message, you can Delete it. If you use the Ctrl or Shift key you can delete multiple quarantined email

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SCCM – Create a device collection for Core server

There is a lot of resources available on Internet to create System Center Configuration Manager device collection based on the operating system but none are helpful to create a device collection to identify all Windows Core servers, especially Windows Server 2016 Core as there is no more switching between Core and UI. So after digging

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Azure – RMS Protection Tool is reaching the end of life

The Azure RMS Protection tool is reaching his end of life (and support) on February 10th, 2018 If you are still using it, start upgrading your RMS client to Azure Information Protection client (current GA version available when writing this post is 1.7.210 available at https://aka.ms/aipclient)

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Azure – Azure AD Domain Services now supports Azure Resource Manager virtual networks (preview)

It has just been announced: the Azure AD Domain Services now supports Azure Resource Manager virtual network (in preview) Until then, Azure AD DS was only supporting classic virtual network. During the preview both classic and ARM virtual network will still be available, so you will have to choose BUT the end target is to

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Azure – SMB v1 will be disabled by default

Microsoft has just announced that SMB v1 will be disabled by default on some virtual machines from the Marketplace. This follows the major situation some weeks ago with malwares/ransomwares taking advantage of flows in the SMB protocol (which were patched by not always deployed). You can read this post to get the list of virtual

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SCCM – Issue to deploy Hyper V Gen 2 VM with OSD

I recently faced an interesting issue to deploy Hyper V generation 2 virtual machines with SCCM OSD. The PXE boot was stuck in downloading the NBP boot file (smsboot\x64\pxeboot.n12). While Generation 1 was PXE booting successfully, and it used to work as most of the VM’s were deployed using OSD and are Generation 2. So

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Azure – Azure AD Administrators can get the full list of devices

As you know you can joined Windows devices to Azure AD; the feature is called Azure AD Joined. But from an administration perspective it can be a little bit challenging to get/see the list of all AAD Joined devices as each AAD Joined device is tight with the user account which did the operation (as

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Exchange Online – Reminder: RPC over HTTPS is being deprecated

It has been announced some time ago already but a reminder is worth it as the date is approaching. RPC over HTTP connectivity to Exchange Online is being deprecated and replaced by MAPI over HTTP on October 31, 2017. If you are using an old version of Office/Outlook (2007, 2010 or 2013) you need to

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Azure – Azure Network Watcher now has connectivity check (preview)

Following the availability of Azure Network Watcher in preview (see https://t.co/0oi3zxss2u), a new functionality has been introduced (in preview too) called Connectivity Check As indicated by his name this feature is aimed to validate connectivity status between a virtual machine and a target which can be another VM, a public or an on-premises endpoint. To

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