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Azure – You can now Data Discovery and Classification for free for Azure SQL database and Synapse Analytics

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You may already know that Azure SQL has a feature called Data Discovery and Classification which helps you to identify if sensitive information are saved in your databases (you can have more details hare https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-sql/database/data-discovery-and-classification-overview). Previously this Data Discovery and Classification was only available as part of the Azure SQL Advanced Data Security (now called […]

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Teams – You can use a call-in number for free for 1 year

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As you know Teams is the meeting client replacing Skype for Business Online for online meetings. Microsoft is currently offering 1 year free for call-in number. The offer is available until March 31, 2021. If you want to take advantage of this 1 year free of call-in, logon to your Office 365 administration portal (https://admin.microsoft.com/)

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Exchange / Skype for Business – The Remote Connectivity analyzer now supports modern authentication

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By know, you should already know the Remote Connectivity Analyzer tool (https://testconnectivity.microsoft.com/) used to help investigating connectivity issue to Exchange (on-premises or online), Skype for Business/Lync, mail flow…. Well, with the hard push from Microsoft to move away from ‘legacy’ authentication method (aka basic authentication) to modern authentication, the Remote Connectivity Analyzer has been updated

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Exchange Online – You will be able to exclude voicemail and missed call notification from journaling

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If you are using Exchange Online and have enabled journaling, you will be able to exclude voicemail and missed call notification from being journaled. This capability will be rolled out in early November but if you are using journaling and want to exclude such notifications you can already run the below PowerShell command using Exchange

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Teams – Administrators can now review application permissions

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As you know Teams is the collaboration hub from Office 365, allowing your users to  collaborate, join/organize meetings… Teams is also an application platform, allowing your users to access other services (like DevOps, GitHub, CRM…) directly from the Teams clients. Most of these applications requires some permissions to, at least read user profile details. Well,

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AWS – You can now use Instance Scheduler to configure automatic start and stop of your EC2 instances

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As you know, running workloads on cloud services requires to implement cost management and optimization to not get nasty surprises with your consumption bills. One of the solution applicable to your virtual machines is to automatically start and stop them to match your business need. To start using AWS Instance Scheduler with your EC2 instances,

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AWS – You can now set data owner on your S3 bucket

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As you know AWS S3 Bucket is used to stored data in a cloud storage container. While you can define S3 bucket owner, it was difficult to then assign and identify stored data ownership. Well, now you can automatically apply ownership to stored data based on the S3 bucket ownership. To do so, logon to

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Azure – Reduce your day-to-day management tasks with Azure Automanage (preview)

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As you know, IT administration has a lot of every day management tasks. Well, if you are running your workloads in Azure you can now reduce these day-to-day tasks by using Azure Automanage: a new capability for your virtual machines management tasks on Azure. Azure Automanage will automatically implements VM management best practices as defined

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Azure – You can now centrally manage your backups with Backup Center (preview)

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As you know, you have the capability to backup your workloads (either from on-premises or Azure) to an Azure Recovery Vaults. Well, as you may have multiple backup vaults (or you are a CSP managing Azure services for your customers), it may be difficult to easily manage backup tasks and reports. Good news, a new

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Azure AD – You can now easily switch to another AAD tenant

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This new capability is simplifying switching between Azure Active Directory tenant. This is quite useful if you manage more than 1 AAD tenant – like CSP or if you are using Azure B2C. To use this is new feature, logon to your Azure AD portal (https://aad.portal.azure.com) or Azure portal (https://portal.azure.com) and access the Azure Active

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