Author name: Benoit HAMET

Azure – Do not configure Enhanced Protected Mode by GPO to get Azure AD Seamless SSO to work

A colleague of mine shared his experience while trying to make Azure AD Seamless SSO to work. As reminder Azure AD Seamless SSO is still under preview; Azure Active Directory Seamless Single Sign On (Azure AD Seamless SSO) provides single sign-on for users signing in on their corporate desktops connected to the corporate network. When […]

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SharePoint Online – A new tenant setting to block downloading infected file

I noticed a new setting available at the tenant level in SharePoint Online called “DisallowInfectedFileDownload”; you can check thanks to the Get-SPOTenant PS command The setting name is quite self explanatory – the idea is to block downloading any infected file from SharePoint Online. For once I disagree with the default value set by Microsoft

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Office 365 – New Users section in the administration portal; Guest Users

I have noticed on my Office 365 Administration Portal a new section within the Users section: Guest users. This section returns all users which have been invited to access your tenant data – mainly from a SharePoint share link If this is not yet available to your tenant, it will come soon (mine is enabled

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Office 365 – You can mark actions from Secure Score as managed by third party

As you may know Office 365 Secure Score is a tool to help you securing your Office 365 tenant by checking your configuration and compare against best practices and recommendations. Microsoft has updated the Secure Score to allow you define recommended/proposed actions as managed by third party. This will help by keeping the recommended action

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Azure – Use Azure Backup Server to backup your Exchange On Premises

To perform the following steps you must first have installed and configure Microsoft Azure Backup Server (MABS); you can check http://blog.hametbenoit.info/2017/07/03/azure-install-and-configuration-of-azure-backup-server/ to do so Define a protection group for Exchange server The MABS agent must have been deployed first on all Exchange servers Once the agent has been deployed you can create the protection group

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Azure – Azure Backup Server adding Azure Recovery Vault to the console

Once you have installed and configured Microsoft Azure Backup Server (MBAS) and started to define protection groups to perform backups and save it to the cloud, you will need to add the Azure Recovery Vault used to save the backups to your MABS console. First you need to re download the credentials file as the

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Azure – Install and configuration of Azure Backup Server

With the release of the v2 of Microsoft Azure Backup Server (MABS) which supports Windows Server 2016, here is post to install and configure it – on Windows Server 2016 of course. Azure Configuration Connect to your Azure tenant with a global administrator account to create a Recovery Vault Browse to reach the Recovery Services

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Yammer – Integration with Skype for Business

Starting now for first release tenant and then mi July, Yammer is integrating with Skype for Business. Finally Microsoft is really integrating Yammer with his own product and start replacing duplicate features with the best. So the Yammer IM chat is going to be removed and you will get the Skype icon in the navigation

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