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SCCM – You can now manage client logging level from the console

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This new option can be quite handy for SCCM administrator; with the latest release of System Center Configuration Manager Current Branch (SCCM CB) 1910, you can manage the client logging level for diagnostics from the administration console. To enable/disable verbose diagnostic logging, just right click either on the device or the device collection you want […]

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Azure – You now have more control on when updates are being deployed

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As you may already know, you have the ability to automatically deployed updates on virtual machines running on Azure (for both Windows and Linux operating systems). Well, while this helps you managing and controlling your virtual machines update process, you did not had control on the host update process, meaning for Azure Dedicated Host or

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Teams – Linux users can use Teams

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As announced sometime ago (see https://t.co/M8hBbz50n4), the Teams client for Linux operating system is now available at https://aka.ms/get-teams-linux The Teams client is the first Office 365/Microsoft 365 application coming to Linux OS. With this release, all operating systems (Windows, MacOS, Android, iOS and now Linux) have a Teams client available.

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Azure – You can now manage how Azure Web Application Firewall with Front Door handles bot

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As you may already know Azure Front Door is a global secure load balanced entry point to your published Azure resources, it works closely with Azure Web Application Firewall. As you also know, any resource published to/accessible from the Internet is a target of bot, some good (like search engine bots), some bad. Protecting your

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Forms – You can now use a file upload field

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As you may know, Microsoft Forms is one the lightweight form capability available on Office 365. A new question type has just been added to Microsoft Forms (roll out is expected to be completed by end of December 2019): file upload With this new field type, you can let respondents to upload file when answering

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Azure AD Connect – You can now provision cloud identity from disconnected Active Directory

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As you already know Azure Active Directory Connect (AAD Connect) is the easiest and quickest way to provision identities in Azure AD, especially for large organization, while providing simple authentication method to cloud services (password hash sync, Seamless SSO…). That being said, you may find yourself in position you have to quickly provide cloud identities

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Office – Office 365 administrators can now manage the ‘What’s new” user experience (preview)

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As you know, since the introduction of the Office Click-to-Run (Office C2R) installation methods, Microsoft has been improving communication to raise awareness of what is coming/new after your Office installation has been updated. Until now, Office 365 administrators did not had much control on managing this “What’s new” feature. Well, good new, such management capability

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Azure – A new service is coming to help application validation against Windows Update security updates (preview)

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A new Azure service, called Update Staging Lab, is currently going under private preview (see below to register) to help ISV (and potentially you too) to validate application against pre-released builds of Windows security updates. We all know, in the past, there has been quite few drama with applications after getting some Windows Updates being

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Azure – You can now migrate your Azure AD Domain Services to ARM and use templates

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You may already know Azure AD Domain Services, an Azure service which extends your on-premises directory service (AD DS) to a managed domain service, allowing you to deliver AD DS domain join, group policies, LDAP and/or Kerberos/NTLM authentication capabilities within your Azure environment without the need to deploy domain controllers virtual machine on Azure (to

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Azure AD – The Dynamic Membership configuration blade has been refreshed and looks better

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As you may already know, you can create dynamic membership groups in Azure Active Directory (AAD) for quite some time now. Well, the dynamic membership rules configuration blade has been refreshed and looks better and easier to use; you can now see at the same time the defined rules AND the detailed expression of these

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