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Azure – You can now transfer files to your Azure virtual machine using Bastion (preview)

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As you may already know, Azure Bastion allows you to connect to an Azure virtual machine using either SSH or RDP without the need to have a public IP address and management ports authorized on the network security group (NSG) (see https://t.co/UBOCpnMD2k). Since Azure Bastion has been made available, there has been some improvements to

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Intune – You can now manage local groups memberships with Intune (preview)

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As you know, Windows devices come with built-in local groups: Administrators Users Guests Power Users Remote Desktop Users Remote Management Users Until now, it was almost impossible to manage local groups memberships with Intune. Well, good news, you can now do it. To start managing local groups memberships, connect to your Intune/Endpoint Configuration Manager portal

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Exchange Online – You can now send email using one of your mailbox alias (preview)

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As you historically Exchange was always using the Primary Email Address when sending email, even when the user choose to edit the From field to use one of the aliases associated with the mailbox. The only workarounds where either to use SMTP Auth connection – which most of the time is disabled for end-user mailboxes

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Azure – You can now use Azure Virtual Machine confidential compute (preview)

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If you have a need to run workloads on a virtual machine with high security and confidentiality requirements you can now use a confidential Azure Virtual Machine. This specific capability is provided thanks to AMD processors using SEV-SNP technologies. The confidential compute is available with the DC and EC virtual machine SKUs: DCasv5-series: Confidential VM

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Azure AD – You can now synch your AD with multiple tenants (preview)

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This has been a long awaited capability. As you know until then you were not able to synchronize your Active Directory with multiple Azure AD/Office 365 tenant. Well, this is now possible and supported to do so; meaning you can synchronize your users, groups and contacts from your Active Directory to different tenant (aka duplicating

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Azure – You can now automatically generate new key version (auto-rotation) in Key Vault (preview)

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As you should already know you can use Azure Key Vault to store secret (either keys, secret or certificates) in a secure way for use by end users and/or automation. Well, until then when you had a key going to expired you had to manually renew/update it. Not anymore, you can now configure auto-rotation to

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SharePoint Online – You can now rename your tenant (preview)

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As you know once you have created your Office 365/Azure AD tenant – mydomain.onmicrosoft.com – you can not rename it. While this is usually not a real problem because it is mostly not visible to end-users, except for SharePoint Online as this is the only workloads you can not use your custom domain, there is

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Azure AD – You can now use Kerberos to authenticate against Azure AD (preview)

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As you know you can use either NTLM and/or Kerberos when authenticating against Active Directory and authentication against Azure AD is using OAuth or SAML. Well, you can now also use Kerberos to authenticate against Azure AD, in the current scenario to access Azure File shares configured to use Azure AD authentication. To be able

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