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System Center Configuration Manager – Integrate your Windows Store for Business

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The latest update for System Center Configuration Manager 2012 R2 (build 5.00.8412.1000 – released on August 2nd, 2016) has added the ability to integrate your Corporate Windows Store into SCCM. The ability to deploy Universal Apps using SCCM has been introduced some time ago but you were obliged to use the Offline Licensing and create […]

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SCCM – Integrate OMS with your SCCM infrastructure

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The latest update of System Center Configuration Manager 2012 R2 (build 5.00.8412.100 published on August 2016) has added a prerelease feature to use OMS to synch your monitoring logs. Off course, to take advantage of this feature, you need to have an Operations Management Suite tenant (https://www.mms.microsoft.com) Enable Prerelease Features To take advantage of this

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Azure – Azure RemoteApp is being retired

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UPDATE 13/08 You can sign in to the Citrix TechPreview (scheduled for Q4 and GA 2017) here https://www.citrix.com/global-partners/microsoft/remote-app.html Microsoft has announced the retirement of the Azure Remote App solution. Azure RemoteApp was the ability to publish applications and resources using Remote Desktop technology through Azure, either in full cloud mode (ie application and applications/resources hosted

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Office 365 / Exchange – Convert your distribution lists to Office 365 Groups

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A new feature is being rolled out to allow you to convert your distribution lists to Office 365 Groups.   What can be converted to Office 365 Groups The following table defines what can be converted (as of today – August 5th, 2016) Distribution Group Types Eligibility Mail enabled security group. Not eligible On-premise managed

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Office 365 – Office 365 Admin Universal App is GA

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The Office 365 Admin Universal App has reached general availability.             If you have been running the beta version (Office 365 Admin Universal Beta) you need to install the released version. If you have been running the ‘old’ version of the Office 365 Admin app on Windows 10, the app will be updated - 

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Skype for Business – Getting MAPI unavailable message after switching to UCS

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If you have configured you Skype for Business infrastructure to use UCS (Unified Contact Store) or if you have requested to get it enabled on Office 365 (yes, you do not have UCS activated by default on Office 365 and you need to open a SR to get it), you may face the following issue.

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Microsoft Authenticator – New version coming up on August 15th

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A new version of the Microsoft Authenticator is coming on August 15th. As you may know, there has been multiple and different apps to manage MFA (Multi Factor Authentication) from Microsoft: one for Microsoft Account and one for Microsoft Corporate Account (Azure AD, Office 365…) on August 15th, this will not be the case anymore;

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Azure – Azure AD Connect Health for domain controllers

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Microsoft has just released the preview for Azure AD Connect Health for Windows Servers AD. This feature is similar to the health agent used with Azure AD Connect to monitor the health of your directory synchronization instance with Azure AD and your ADFS but for On Premises Active Directory Domain Controllers. To be able to

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Security – Error after upgrading Multi Factor Authentication Server to version 7

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If you are already using Microsoft Azure MFA with the on premises solution (Multi Factor Authentication Server) and want (or have already) to upgrade to the latest version (which is version 7.0.2 at the time of writing this post), you may experience the following error if you have integrated with ADFS (especially when you restart

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Azure / Office 365 – Conditional Access is now available in preview

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Azure AD Conditional Access policies for Office 365 (Exchange and SharePoint Online) is now available in preview; additional services may be supported (see at the end of this post). This will make it easier to request multi-factor authentication when accessing Office 365 services. Until then, either you had to manage it at the ADFS level

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