As you know, you can start a ‘Meet now’ meeting from Teams to initiate a meeting without scheduling it. Well, you can now do the same directly from Outlook by accessing your calendar in Outlook and using the ‘Meet now’ button
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Good news, you don’t need to be a global administrator to manage Multi Factor Authentication (MFA) or authentication methods. A new role called Authentication Policy Admin allows you to delegate authentication methods management, covering MFA or password protection policies. NOTE the legacy MFA setting is not available for the authentication policy admin role Below is
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Good news for Exchange Online administrators. If you are using a Linux of MacOS device, you can now install the ExO v2 PowerShell module on your device. MacOS versions supported are: Mojave Catalina Big Sur Linux distributions supported are: Ubuntu 16.04, 18.04, 20.04 (including ARM64) Ubuntu 18.04, 18.10, 19.10 (via Snap package), 20.04, 20.10 Debian
As you may know, Teams administrators can control by policy call recording for both meeting and 1:1 calls. Well, regarding the 1:1 call recording policy, this is (was) controlled by the AllowCloudRecording global parameter. Starting March 11, 2021, a new parameter – allowCloudRecordingForCalls, specific for 1:1 calls, will be introduced which will be set by
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As you know, Azure Information Protection (AIP) has been available for quite some time with the plan to replace Active Directory Right Management Services (AD RMS). Well, now it is time as integration and support of AD RMS on Exchange Online is being retired by February 28th 2021. If you are still using AD RMS
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If you use Exchange Online Protection (EOP) and have configured ‘Move message to Junk Email folder’ for high confidence spam and phishing emails you need to be aware this option is being retired. It will be replaced by the Quarantine message setting starting March 2021.
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If you are using Azure Database for MySQL server, you can now stop the server. This can be useful for dev/test environment where it is not required to get it running 24/7. When the server is in stopped state, the associated compute cost is no longer billed but the storage is. The MySQL server can
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Microsoft has identified that one of the Reply-URL used by Exchange Online for authentication and authorization is unsafe. As result, the Reply-URL list is going to be updated by end of March 2021. The Reply-URL being removed from the list is ietf:wg:oauth:2.0:oob. This will impact Exchange Online PowerShell modules earlier than 1.0.1, automation with ModernAuth
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As you know Azure Security Center and Secure Score are your one-stop shop regarding your security posture on Azure; helping you staying secure while running your workloads on Azure. Well, you can now view your Secure Score at the management group level and not only the subscription level. You can turn on the Group by
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As you know, you can use access keys to access Azure Storage Account content (Blob, Table, File…). While this is helpful this also implies some security risk when using public endpoints. Well, good news, you can now disable account access keys on storage account to use Azure AD authentication instead. IMPORTANT if you disable account
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