Author name: Benoit HAMET

Azure – Azure AD DS (Active Directory Domain Services) is can be used as Resource Forest (preview)

You may already know Azure Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS), the Azure feature allowing you to host your Active Directory Domain Services on Azure. Well, until now, this Azure AD DS capability was only available for User Forest mode (aka hosting active user accounts). Good news, you can now also provision your Azure AD […]

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Azure – Prepare for the Classic IaaS retirement

As you know, Azure Services came first under what is now called ‘Classic’ resource model and has evolved to the ARM (Azure Resource Manager) model. For quite some time, both Classic and ARM have been coexisting, allowing customers to provision Azure resource with either of the model. Now, it is time for the Classic IaaS

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Exchange Online – New version of the Exchange Online PowerShell (aka v2) is now available

As you know, managing Exchange and Exchange Online can be done from either the Exchange Administration Center (EAC) or with PowerShell modules. In the case of Exchange Online PowerSHell module, there has been already 2 major version; the first one with the initial release of Exchange Online years ago (which did not supported MFA) and

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Azure – Get prepared for the retirement of ‘legacy’ data encryption in Azure Site Recovery

You may already know that Azure Site Recovery (ASR) is encrypting data to ensure your data stay safe and secure. Well, this is an important announcement here; the current data encryption method used by Azure Site Recovery is being retired by April 30, 2022 to be replaced by Encryption at Rest capabilities (introduced earlier in

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Azure Site Recovery – Get prepared for retirement of SCVMM disaster recovery capability

Azure Site Recovery (ASR) is the disaster recovery solution from Microsoft running on Azure to help you manage and recover from disaster for your on-premises infrastructure. ASR is frequently evolving to include new capabilities and some time to get some retired. This is the case today. On March 1st, 2023 (so you have a little

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Microsoft Defender ATP – Support for Linux is coming

After releasing Microsoft Defender Advanced Threat Protection for MacOS few months ago, Microsoft is expanding the support of Defender ATP to Linux platform. If you are using one of the common Linux server distribution (RHEL 7+, CentOS Linux 7+, Ubuntu 16 LTS, or higher LTS, SLES 12+, Debian 9+ or Oracle EL 7) you will

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Exchange Online – Get ready for the retirement of Basic Authentication

In the process of re enforcing security, one of the key is to use robust and secure authentication protocols and methods. With that in mind, get ready for the retirement of the basic authentication in Exchange Online for POP and IMAP. If you use POP and/or IMAP to connect to an Exchange Online mailbox, you

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Azure AD – Password less with FIDO2 now in preview for hybrid deployments

As you may be already aware, support for password less with FIDO2 keys has been in preview for quite some time already for Azure AD Joined devices and browser sign-ins (see https://t.co/6HfQaQrsuR). Well, good news as you can now also use FIDO2 keys to authenticate against Azure AD Hybrid joined device – aka Windows 10

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Azure – You can now export your Azure Security Recommendations and alerts in CSV

It has been a long awaited feature, the ability to export recommendations and more importantly alerts from Azure Security Center (ASC). Well, good news, this feature is now generally available To start using it, just logon to your Azure administration portal (https://portal.azure.com/) and reach your Azure Security Center From there, depending of what you want

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Outlook Mobile – You can now search for files from Outlook Mobile

This feature has been already available for iOS devices. This now also available in Outlook Mobile for Android devices. When you click the Search button in Outlook Mobile you will now have access to your files (including attachments). When you click on the Files section you have access to a complete and detailed list of

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