Author name: Benoit HAMET

Windows 10 – BitLocker Recovery Key for Azure AD Joined devices

This procedure applies only for Windows 10 devices which have been configured as Azure AD Joined. From time to time, you may need to access advanced recovery options for your Windows 10 device but these options may failed to work because you are using BitLocker to encrypt your drive. You may already know the procedure […]

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Azure / Office 365 – Azure AD Connect now support proxy authentication

If you are working with Office 365 and/or Azure services, you already know that you can synchronize your Active Directory to Azure Active Directory services with the directory synchronization tool Azure AD Connect. It has been a very long wait (since the first version of the MS cloud services, BPOS) to get the synchronization tool

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SCCM 2012 R2 – Management Point returns HTTP 500 another solution

This is a common issue with SCCM,: getting the management point in error with HTTP 500 error. On a fresh install of SCCM 2012 R2 version 1511, I got this ‘’famous’ HTTP 500 error after installing the Management Point. SCCM has been installed with no role except the Service Connection Point, then it has been

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Exchange Online – Manage Save sent items into the Sent Items folder and Automatic Reply of the Shared Mailbox from the admin portal

As you know, it has been possible to save all sent items to the Sent Items folder of a shared mailbox instead of the Sent Items folder of the user sending since Exchange 2013 CU9. Off course, this is also available on Exchange Online but for both (On Premises or Online) you had to use

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Azure – Azure Information Protection Public Preview

UPDATE:  In general availability in Sept. 15 th Microsoft is providing a new security features set using Azure RMS called Azure Information Protection. The idea is to help securing and classifying your data; making things easier for end-user. Don’t forget one the advantages of Azure RMS is you can share RMS protected documents/emails with the

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Office 365 – Guest access to Office 365 Groups

The evolution of Office 365 features continues with the ability to give guest access to Office 365 Groups. With this update, you can now grant access to Office 365 Groups to people which are external to your organization. Adding guest to an Office 365 Groups can only be done by either an Office 365 Administrator

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Azure – Interactive Azure Platform Big Picture and Symbols set

As Microsoft Azure is frequently evolving this can be quite a challenge to find/know what is available as well as getting documentation and pricing You can find all the current services/features on this interactive web site http://aka.ms/azposterapp In the same time, if you need to create Visio diagrams and/or documentation for your Azure services, you

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SharePoint Online – Change the default sharing link type

As you may know, you can share content stored on SharePoint Online by getting a link (depending of the settings enabled by your administrator, you may get different options). Now, SharePoint Online administrators can define which sharing link type (direct, internal or anonymous – again depending of the sharing configuration settings defined) will be the

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Office 365 – Advanced Security Management

Microsoft has added a new service into Office 365 called Advanced Security Management. This new service allows administrators to setup alerts for various activities, from users to administrators activities, anomalous or suspicious behavior and define action to these issues, such as suspending user account. Activation To start using this new service, you need first to

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