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Azure AD – You can now enable cloud groups for administration role assignment (preview)

As you know, all administrative permissions to manage any service or capability should be granted by assigning Azure AD administration roles. Well, until now, it was not possible to grant such administration role to a group of users. Good news, this capability is now available in preview. To start using group to grant administration role,

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Azure – New capability added to Azure Security Center: Inventory

As you know Azure comes with a lot of security capability which sometimes get missed or misconfigured. To help customers stay on top of their security posture, Azure integrates Azure Security Center (ASC) which gives you an overview of your security configuration, not only for Azure resources but also for on-premises ones if you have

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Outlook – You can now create quick pool with outlook (preview)

By now you may already know Microsoft Forms and Microsoft Forms Pro, the survey/pool service from Office 365. Well, you can now create quick pool (using Forms) directly from Outlook. This feature is only available for Office Pro Plus (2007 Build 13029.20236 or later), running on Windows 10 2004 Build 12730.20000 or later; this is

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

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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Azure – You can now use FQDN in network rule (preview)

Azure Firewall, the Firewall as a Service (FWaaS) from Azure, has been updated to allow you use Fully Qualified Domain Name (FQDN) when setting up network rules. To start using it, logon to your Azure portal (https://portal.azure.com) and search for Firewall There edit your existing firewall (or create a new one) and access the Rule

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AWS – Honeycode or how to quickly build web and mobile applications

A new Amazon Web Services (AWS) has been introduced in preview called Honeycode – https://www.honeycode.aws/ This new AWS service gives you the power to build powerful mobile & web applications without writing any code; if you are familiar with Microsoft PowerApps, this is basically very similar. Honeycode is mainly oriented (for now?) for spreadsheet oriented

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Intune – You can now get endpoint analytics to help you identify performance and health issues (preview)

As you know, troubleshooting endpoint performance or issues is not an easy task, especially when devices are now more frequently outside of the corporate network. To try simplify this task, Microsoft is introducing a new capability to Intune/Endpoint Configuration Manager to provide analytics from endpoints to administrators. With the first release of Endpoint Analytics, you

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Azure AD – The Trusted/Named Locations blade has a new experience (preview)

If you work with Azure Active Directory (AAD, Azure AD), you should already know the Named Locations (also known as Trusted Locations) settings which allows you to define a list of IP addresses or ranges to be marked as trusted or not and then can be used with Conditional Access. Well, the administration experience for

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