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Office 365 – You can now launch simulated attacks targeting your end-users

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As working remotely is more predominant, ensuring your end-users are working securely is more important than ever. Few months ago, Microsoft has partnered with Terranova Security to provide end-users training kits for Office 365 customers (see https://t.co/whbjd68YIF). Well, this partnership is now delivering attack simulation scenarios to help maintain/improve your end-uses awareness. This is similar […]

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Azure – You can now create exception for Azure Security Center recommendations

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As you know, Azure Security Center (ASC) is your one stop shop to get an overview of your Azure security posture and custom recommendations based on your Azure environment. Well, while this quite an important capability, there are some limitations, such as not being able to be selective on which resource(s) a recommendation should apply.

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Intune – Android 11 can no longer install trusted root certificate

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This is a breaking change introduced by Android 11 when a device is being enroll as Android device administrator. Android 11 can no longer install trusted root certificate on the device – this does not affect Samsung devices. If you are using non Samsung devices enrolled as Android device administrator you will need to manually

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Azure – You can now use a managed storage account for the VM boot diagnostics

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As you know, it is recommended to enable the virtual machine boot diagnostics to help gathering information when troubleshooting virtual machine boot issues (or to simply being able to see if the VM is booting up or has crashed with a blue screen). As you know, the boot diagnostics require the use of a storage

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Intune – Use the Group Policy Analytics report to prepare the migration of your GPO to Endpoint Configuration Manager MDM

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For years, IT administrators have been using group policy objects (GPO) – and still continue today – to manage/configure devices, both clients and servers. With the move to a cloud-based devices management, the need to replicate as much as possible settings set using GPO is more and more relevant. To help you prepare moving from

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Intune – You can now monitor your Windows Defender devices from the portal

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As you know, you can manage Windows Defender settings by creating device configuration profiles using Intune/Endpoint Configuration Manager, including devices managed by SCCM (aka on-premises server) – see https://t.co/VG0DaErni1. Well, you can now monitor the health of all the devices protected by Windows Defender directly from the Intune/Endpoint Configuration Manager portal, including the ones managed

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Azure AD – You can now automate actions when reviewing guest/external users access

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As you  know, you can invite external users (known as guest) to your organization, leading to the creation of a guest account in your Azure AD. You also know that reviewing such external access is always a complicated tasks. To assist in this process, Microsoft has introduced some time ago already a feature called Azure

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Intune – Additional permissions for the Endpoint Security Manager role

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As you know, you can delegate permissions to allow certain administrative or management tasks using RBAC (Role Based Access Control) on Intune/Endpoint Configuration Manager. Well, new permissions have been added to the Endpoint Security Manager role: Initiate Configuration Manager action Microsoft Defender ATP Reboot now Remote lock Rotate BitLockerKeys (preview) Rotate FileVault key Shut down

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Intune – You can now configure application updates settings for Android Devices

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As you know, Intune/Endpoint Configuration Manager allows your administrators to publish applications from the various app stores (Google Play, Apple App Store, custom…) to your mobile devices. Well, administrators can now also define the application update settings (user choice, never, using Wi-Fi only or Always). To enable this option, you need to use an Android

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Teams – Update for the automatic admittance in Teams Meeting

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As you know, when setting up a Teams meeting you can define who can be automatically admitted to join the meeting, defined by your Teams administrator using Meeting policies. Until now, there was few options between everyone, everyone in your organization and everyone in your organization and federated ones, Well, you can now also automatically

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