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Intune – Deploy printers used with Universal Print with Intune/Endpoint Configuration Manager

As you may know, a new service called Universal Print has been released in preview allowing you replacing your on-premises print servers (see https://t.co/gOagPc8slW). Well, you can now deploy the printers used by with Universal Print using Intune/Endpoint Configuration Manager to your devices. Off course, the first thing to do is to implement and configure […]

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Azure AD B2C – New access risk insights and Conditional Access are now available in preview

As you know Microsoft Cloud services identity is based on Azure Active Directory (AAD). You may also know that Azure AD is not only available for corporate authentication for your users or external partners companies but you can leverage Azure AD for you business to consumer (B2C) application with Azure AD B2C. Well, Azure AD

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Azure – Automatically block IP’s in Network Security Group when brute force attack is detected

As you know Azure Security Center is your one stop shop to help you stay on top of your security posture for your resources hosted in Azure. As there is more and more resources hosted on cloud services, security and protection against attack is more important than ever. As you know you can protect your

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Intune / SCCM – You can now apply Microsoft Defender policy using Intune/Endpoint Configuration Manager on devices managed by SCCM

As you know, SCCM and Intune/Endpoint Configuration Manager are being more and more close with each other. Well, now you can define and apply Microsoft Defender policy from Endpoint Configuration Manager on devices managed by SCCM. To be able to do it, you need to use the latest version of SCCM Current Branch 2002 with

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Azure AD – Conditional Access policies now applied to all client application by default

By now, you should already know the Conditional Access feature provided with Azure AD, helping you defining conditions to authorize access to applications/resources – like requesting multi factor authentication when outside of the corporate network. You should also know that legacy authentication endpoints (like SMTP, POP or IMAP) should be blocked. Well, an important update

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Intune / Windows 10 – Unable to turn on BitLocker with conflicting group policy error

Recently I came across an issue turning on BitLocker with the error on a Windows 10 device BitLocker Drive Encryption cannot be applied to this drive because there conflicting Group Policy settings for recovery options on fixed data drives. Also got the error before starting the troubleshooting You can’t create both a recovery password and

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SCCM – You can now use the Company Portal for software deployment

If you are using System Center Configuration Manager Current Branch (SCCM CB), also known as Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Manager Current Branch, in co-management mode, you can now also use the Company Portal application for the software deployment workload. To be able to use the Company Portal for your software deployment when the Client apps workload

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Azure – You can now get notification when your Secure Score downgrade

After releasing a Power BI dashboard to follow up on the evolution of your Azure Secure Score (see https://t.co/U1I15FSuBP), you can now get an email notification if your Secure Score is reducing. The playbook is available for deployment in the Azure Security Center Github repository here https://github.com/Azure/Azure-Security-Center/tree/master/Secure%20Score/Secure%20Score%20Reduction%20Alerts Connect to the above URL and use the

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Azure – Define ARM templates specs (preview)

By mow you already know you can use ARM (Azure Resource Manager) templates to deploy resources on Azure in automated and consistent way. Well, you can now define template specs, a new resource type for storing Azure template for future use. This also allows you sharing templates with other users in your organization, fixing known

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Azure – Azure Security Center is now helping you identifying weak network access

You may already know Azure Security Center, your one stop shop for anything security related on Azure, helping you managing and improving your security posture on your Azure resources (and also on-premises ones if you are in hybrid). Well, Azure Security Center is now also helping you identifying (or more importantly provides a better visibility)

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