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Office 365 – Centralized deployment for add-ins

Office 365 has a new administrative feature to help organization manage and deploy Office add-ins. Until then, it was up to the individual users to get the Office add-ins they wanted/needed (except Outlook as this was already possible to push add-ins from the Exchange Admin control panel). Now, Office 365 administrators can define the add-ins […]

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Azure AD – Conditional access now supports Team and Azure Portal

Microsoft has just announced that Team and Azure Portal are now supported for conditional access. This means you can now define requirements – like MFA or domain joined – for these services based on users/groups, locations or devices trying to access them Because Azure Portal is now supported for conditional access, take extra care when

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Intune – You can now switch your MDM authority without Microsoft support and not re enrollment

With the June 2017 updates for Intune, it is now possible to switch the MDM (mobile device management) authority from Intune to SCCM Hybrid and vice-versa without opening a support request AND without having to re enroll devices already enrolled (see https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sccm/mdm/deploy-use/change-mdm-authority)

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Azure – Workday integration with Azure AD

Microsoft has released a preview of the integration feature between Azure AD and Workday, making user management easier. You can use the tutorial available here to setup the integration between your Azure AD and Workday; keep in mind you need to have an Azure AD Premium P1 https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/active-directory-saas-workday-inbound-tutorial

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Azure – Azure AD Privileged Identity Management approval workflow now in preview

Microsoft has released a new features for Azure AD Privileged Identity Management (Azure AD PIM). This feature is currently in preview. You can now define an approval workflow before any role privileges are granted. To do so you need to edit the role you want to enable the approval workflow; to do so Access the

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Office 365 / Azure – New version of Azure AD Connect; now synch Public Folders

A new version of Azure AD Connect has been released (version 1.1.524.0) and apart of many bug fixes, there is a lot of improvements. One of them is the ability to synch Exchange Mail Enabled Public Folder. You can download the new version here http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=615771 Please note that there will be a full synchronization after

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OneDrive – Files on Demand is getting back

You may don’t know what means ‘files on demand’ with the OneDrive/OneDrive for Business client. This is the functionality which used to be available with the OneDrive client back in the Windows 8.x years. This feature allows you to not synchronize a folder/file in your client but was still displayed in the Windows Explorer. This

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Office 365 – Advanced Threats Protection, Safe Links is coming to Office documents

As you may already know Safe Links is a security feature on Office 365 which rewrites URL’s embedded into emails to check if these URL’s are safe which comes with Office 365 E5 (or if you have bought the add-on Advanced Threats Protection). Now, Safe Links is coming to Office documents, performing the same ‘on

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