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Azure – Per-Application Multi Factor Authentication (MFA)

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As you may already know, Microsoft has proposed to secure access to your cloud (as well as you on-premises) application using MFA (Multi Factor Authentication) based on Azure MFA (formerly Phone Factor) – see http://blog.hametbenoit.info/2014/08/18/azure-use-windows-azure-multi-factor-authentication-to-secure-your-on-premises-application-and-with-your-adfs/ (on-premises MFA) and http://blog.hametbenoit.info/2013/10/11/office-365-setup-multi-factor-authentication/ or http://blog.hametbenoit.info/2013/06/17/office-365-manage-multiple-factors-authentication/ for Office 365 and cloud apps for more details. But, until then, as soon […]

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Windows 10 – Windows Store stuck in loading

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After updating my Windows 10 Technical Preview to the latest build published earlier (build 9926), all App Store (the current one and the new one in beta) were not working to get any new application and where stuck in loading as shown in the screenshot below   The solution was to run the following commands

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Azure AD – Azure AD Connect Health

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Azure AD Connect Health is a new feature available on Microsoft Azure for Azure Active Directory. This new functionality requires you have an Azure Active Directory Premium and allows you to monitor your identity platforms. This is currently in preview. This will help you to be proactive before potential issues impact your end-users, gather statistics

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Office 365 – ForeFront Identity Manager Synchronization Service is still installed after uninstalling Office 365 DirSync 1.0.7020

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While I was evaluating (using another server and after stopping the current DirSync service) the next version of Azure Active Directory Connect tool in beta, I faced an issue when I switched back to the current DirSync instance: directory synchronization seems to work BUT deleted AD accounts were not deleted on Office 365. So, I

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Windows 10 – January Technical Preview First Review

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As Microsoft has just released the January Technical Preview for Windows 10, here is a first review just after the installation. The installation went smoothly without any issue. The issue on the previous build with application which start automatically when Windows starts did not start (like Lync, antivirux, Skype…) has been solved. Tablet Mode My

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Office 365 – Azure AD Connect Preview installation

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Following my previous announcing the preview of the new version of Azure AD Connect which will replace the current DirSync tool for Office 365, here is a post detailing the installation of the preview. As said in my previous post, this version can be downloaded from the Connect web site (http://connect.microsoft.com/site1164/Downloads/DownloadDetails.aspx?DownloadID=53949) For this installation, I

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Azure – Azure backup now supports Windows client

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After the server side, Microsoft has published an update for Windows 7 and 8 clients to allows these clients to take advantage of the Azure service called Azure Backup. Go there to download and install the package and starts backing up your clients on Azure http://support.microsoft.com/kb/3015072

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Office 365 – Office 365 DirSync will be replaced with Azure AD Connect

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Microsoft has announced that Azure AD Connect, the new tool to synchronize On Premises Active Directory directories will replace in a very near future the current DirSync tool for Office 365. As you may be aware, since few months we now have different synchronization tools for Office 365 and Azure Active Directory: Office 365 DirSync,

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ADFS 3 / Office 365 – Sign in with Lync mobile app on Android failed

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While working on a project to deploy Office 365 with ADFS 3.0, I was running on an issue with the Lync mobile client on Android ONLY; other Lync client did not had the issue (on WIndows, WIndows Phone or iOS). The issue was the user was not able to sign in on the Lync 2013

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Azure / Office / Office 365 – Support for MFA for Office applications is coming

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As you may already know – if not, this is it – Microsoft has introduced and provided Multi Form Factor (MFA) with Office 365, and Azure Active Directory, for some time now. This MFA solution is provided by PhoneFactor – which has been bought since then by Microsoft. If you don’t know anything about this

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