Author name: Benoit HAMET

Azure – A new version of the Azure AD Connect has been released

Azure Active Directory Connect (AAD Connect), the directory synchronization tool to synchronize your Active Directory with Azure AD, just got refreshed with the release of the new version 1.5.18.0 In addition of the usual bug fixes – see below, there has been some improvements too: Fixed issues: Fixed a bug in the group writeback forest/OU […]

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Azure – You can now use device code flow sign-in to logon with Azure Explorer

By now you should already know Azure Storage Explore, client application allowing you access your storage in Azure from Windows, MacOS or Linux devices (download link https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/features/storage-explorer/). Well, Azure Explorer has got an interesting improvement which allows you to use the device code flow sign-in to connect to your Azure tenant and access your storage

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Intune – You can perform bulk actions on devices

You may not have a noticed but you can now perform bulk actions (delete, retire, wipe or send custom notification) on devices registered in Intune/Endpoint Configuration Manager. To do such thing, logon to your Azure portal (https://portal.azure.com/) and reach the Intune\Devices\All Devices blade, or your Endpoint Configuration Manager portal (https://devicemanagement.microsoft.com/ or https://endpoint.microsoft.com/) and reach the

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SCCM – The new version of SCCM – Endpoint Manager – Current Branch (2002) is now available

The new build of System Center Configuration Manager/Endpoint Manager Current Branch (2002) as been released and is now available. This new version will be available within the next few weeks using the in-console update. If you don’t want to wait you can still use the script available for download here https://download.microsoft.com/download/7/c/4/7c48f2c7-f433-414b-a901-753a61c7956d/EnableEarlyUpdateRing2002.exe This new build is

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Security – You can now allow other applications to capture screen and one-time code from the Authenticator app

By now, you may know the Microsoft Authenticator app used for multi factor authentication (MFA) to access your Microsoft Account (MSA), Corporate account (Azure AD/Office 365), or even your Facebook or Google account. Well, you can now allow (or disallow – which is the default settings) other applications to capture the Authenticator screen, which include

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Azure AD Connect – Getting stopped-server-down error when importing from Azure AD

Just had a weird issue with Azure AD Connect (the directory synchronization tool from Microsoft to sync from your Active Directory to Azure Active Directory) where we were getting the error “stopped-server-down” during the Delta Import step from Azure Active Directory during a synchronization. Everything else was working perfectly fine (password sync, password write-back, sync

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Intune – A new portal URL for Endpoint Manager is now used

A new URL has been put in production for Endpoint Manager: https://endpoint.microsoft.com/ While other portal URL’s (https://devicemanagement.microsoft.com/ and Intune blade in Azure portal https://portal.azure.com) will continue to be available, it is recommended to start using this new URL as they will likely start redirecting to the new one and ultimately being removed. There is no

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Security – Moving to TLS 1.2 is becoming more urgent…

As you may know, it has been highly recommended for the past few months by Microsoft, Google, Apple and other software vendors to move from TLS 1.0/1..1 to TLS 1.2. Well, this recommendation is becoming more important and you have to urgently ensure you are ready for it as the next version (81) of Google

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Teams – You can now configure device profile for Collaboration Bar devices

You may know new devices type for Microsoft Teams, called Collaboration Bar, are now available (see https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-teams-blog/the-first-collaboration-bar-for-microsoft-teams-is-now-available/ba-p/1231706). As part of this availability, you can now configure specific Teams profiles for these Collaboration Bar. To start creating and managing profiles for these devices, go to your Teams administration portal (https://admin.teams.microsoft.com/) and reach the Devices\Collaboration Bars menu

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SharePoint – The SharePoint Mobile application now supports custom branding

As you may know, you can customize the branding of your Office 365 tenant using your own logo and banner. This customization has been available for quite some time now, but there was one limitation: the SharePoint mobile app did not apply the customization and continue to display a standard/generic branding. Well, good new, it

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