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Teams – You can now manage your Teams Room from the Teams administration portal

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As you know you can modernize your meeting rooms by adding to them the Teams capabilities, known as Teams Room (formerly known as Lync Room System), by integrating your audio/video capabilities with Teams system (you can know more about it here https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/rooms/) Well, the Teams administration portal (https://admin.teams.microsoft.com/) has been updated to allow Teams administrator […]

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Intune – You can now define update locations for Windows Defender

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As you know you can control some settings of Windows Defender through Intune/Endpoint Configuration Manager. Well, you can now also define update locations to get the definition updates for Windows Defender Antivirus. To configure the locations, logo to your Endpoint Configuration Manager portal (https://endpoint.microsoft.com/) and access the Endpoint security\Antivirus configuration blade Then create (or update)

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Azure AD – The new version of Azure AD Connect allows you to export your configuration for reuse (preview)

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By now, you already know Azure AD Connect, the directory synchronization tool from Microsoft to provision your identities in Azure Active Directory (AAD). Well, a new version has been released (version 1.5.42.0) which allows you to export your configuration and then re use it when installing/configuring a new instance. You may already know the Azure

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Office 365 – Updated retirement date for TLS 1.0/1.1

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As you may be aware, Microsoft is on the move to deprecate older TLS versions (TLS 1.0 and TLS 1.1) and make the switch to TLS 1.2. It has been announced last year (July 2019), retirement date for TLS 1.0 and TLS 1.1 was initially scheduled for June 2020 but with the unprecedent situation it

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Intune – You can now change the primary user of a device also for co-managed devices

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You may be already aware that you were able to change the primary user of a device when the device is Intune managed only (see https://t.co/iuo00rAdke) Well good news, you can do the same with co-managed devices too. To change the primary user of a co-managed device, logon to your Endpoint Configuration Manager portal (https://endpoint.microsoft.com/)

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Intune – Migrate your Windows Defender Firewall GPO’s rules for use with Intune/Endpoint Configuration Manager

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As you know, you can manage and configure your Windows Defender Firewall with Intune/Endpoint Configuration Manager, including rules. But what about if you already had configured GPO’s (Group Policy Objects) to manage and configure Windows Defender Firewall? Until now you had to manually replicate these rules into Intune/Endpoint Configuration Manager. Well, good new, you can

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Office 365 – Message center can now sync with Planner

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By now, you should know the Message Center in Office 365 Administration portal, the service used by Microsoft to announce updates, improvements or new services / capabilities for Office 365 services. Well, the Message Center can now sync with Planner, helping task automation for action. When you setup the Message Center integration with Planner, you

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Azure – You need to review if your certificates have been issued by compliant CA

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As you know, certificates are more heavily used and important than ever to protect communication between clients and services. Well, the Certificate Authority (CA) Browser (https://cabforum.org/) members recently published a report detailing multiple certificates issued by certification authorities (CA) were out the industry standard for publicly trusted CA’s. You can read the reports here: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1649951

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AWS – EC2 Image Builder is now able to stream logs to CloudWatch

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As you know, AWS EC2 Image Builder is an AWS service letting you automate the creation and deployment of golden image on Amazon Elastic Cloud Compute (EC2). Well, to help you troubleshoot building, customization and deployment of EC2 image, you can now stream the logs in CloudWatch. This option is enabled by default. If you

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