Author name: Benoit HAMET

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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Office 365 – RMS encrypted messages can now be decrypted on the fly with eDiscovery

A new functionality for eDiscovery is now available and enabled by default to automatically decrypt RMS encrypted messages when you are exporting the search result.   The decryption capability is automatically added to the eDiscovery Manager group. RMS encrypted messages are decrypted ONLY when exported as individual message; if you export your search result to

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Office 365 – Preview of the Visio creation capabilities

After adding the capability of opening Visio files on the web, Microsoft is now going one step further by adding the capability to create Visio file on Office 365. Currently, it’s is only available in English-US. To join the preview, register at http://aka.ms/visio-new

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Office 365 – Script to automate Office 365 Role membership

UPDATE: script update to enable Azure MFA and correct a bug in the Office 365 role update function Office 365 Role membership management is one of the few workload you can not manage using groups. To automate the membership of these roles I have created a script. The script is comparing Active Directory group membership

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Office 365 – It is time to move on: end of support for DirSync and Azure AD Sync

If you are still using these old versions of the directory synchronization tool – DirSync and Azure AD Sync, it is time to move on and deploy Azure AD Connect to take advantage of the many improvements. On April 13, 2017 DirSync and Azure AD Sync will not be supported anymore. Go check what Azure

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