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Azure – You can now define automation workflow on Azure Security Center (preview)

Leave a Comment / Beta / Preview, Microsoft Azure, Security / Benoit HAMET / November 14, 2019 / ASC, Automation, Azure, Azure Security, Azure Security Center, Logic App, Security, Security Center

By now you should already know Azure Security Center (ASC), the unified one-stop shop security management for Azure, providing you details about your security posture and potential improvements. Well, you can now define automation workflow (in preview) to automate actions based on detection alerts or security center recommendations. Automation workflow uses Logic App to execute […]

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Azure – You can now use a central configuration and management point for Azure Firewall

Leave a Comment / Beta / Preview, Microsoft Azure / Benoit HAMET / November 11, 2019 / Azure, Azure Firewall, Azure Firewall Manager, Azure Firewall Policies, Azure Firewall Policy, Firewall, Firewall Manager

You may already know Azure Firewall, the managed, cloud-based network security solution protecting your Azure virtual network resources. Well, good news, you can now have a central configuration and management point for Azure Firewall, called Azure Firewall Manager, to help you manage your cloud-based security perimeters. Azure Firewall Manager works with Azure Virtual WAN Hub

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Azure AD – You can now configure Admin Consent workflow

Leave a Comment / Azure Active Directory, Beta / Preview / Benoit HAMET / November 8, 2019 / AAD, Admin Consent, Application Admin Consent, Azure, Azure Active Directory, Azure AD

As you may already know, applications integrated with Azure AD may required administrators consent to allow them access your Azure AD data (for example read user profile). When a user tries to access an application with requires admin consent but has not been approved it, it starts to be a long support process to get

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SharePoint Online – You can now enable Azure Information Protection Sensitivity label on SharePoint Online and OneDrive

Leave a Comment / Beta / Preview, Office 365, Security, SharePoint / Benoit HAMET / November 8, 2019 / AIP, Azure Information Protection, OdB, ODfB, OneDrive, OneDrive for Business, Sensitivity label, SharePoint, SharePoint Online, SPO

As you know, you have been able to integrate Azure Right Management Services (Azure RMS) with SharePoint Online for quite a long time already. That said, since Azure RMS has become Azure Information Protection and now also integrates Sensitivity Label, SharePoint Online (and OneDrive for Business) were not able to process the content of the

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Azure – You can now use Azure AD Authentication to logon on Windows virtual machines (preview)

Leave a Comment / Beta / Preview, Microsoft Azure / Benoit HAMET / November 7, 2019 / Azure, Azure Virtual Machine, Virtual Machine

After getting the ability to logon on Linux virtual machines on Azure using your Azure AD credentials (see http://blog.hametbenoit.info/2018/05/23/azure-you-can-use-your-azure-ad-credentials-to-logon-to-linux-vm/), you can now also do the same with Windows virtual machine (Windows Server 2019 Datacenter and Windows 10 1809 [or later]), available to all Azure regions. To be able to use it, you need to ensure

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Teams – You can now use Teams Advisor to help you rollout Teams (preview)

Leave a Comment / Beta / Preview, Microsoft Teams, Office 365 / Benoit HAMET / November 4, 2019 / Deployment, Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Teams Advisor, Rollout, Teams, Teams Advisor, Teams Deployment, Teams Rollout

While Teams usage is growing, it can be difficult to properly start rolling out Microsoft Teams. Microsoft has deployed a new capability in Teams, called Teams Advisor, to help you rolling out and increase Teams usage. The Teams Advisor assess your Office 365 tenant to determine the most common configuration you may have to implement

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Azure AD Connect / ADFS – You can now stage your migration from AD FS (preview)

Leave a Comment / Active Directory Federation Services / ADFS, Azure Active Directory, Beta / Preview, Office 365 / Benoit HAMET / October 31, 2019 / AAD, AAD Connect, Active Director Federation Service, AD FS, Azure Active Directory, Azure Active Directory Connect, Azure AD, Azure AD Connect, O365, Office 365, Staged rollout

When you are moving to cloud services (in this case Office 365 and/or Azure Active Directory/Azure), it is important that the authentication process is working seamlessly when you are moving away from federated authentication services (AD FS, Okta…) to cloud authentication. This means you need to be able to test and validate the process. Until

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Intune – You can now define policy sets (preview)

Leave a Comment / Beta / Preview, Microsoft Intune / Benoit HAMET / October 21, 2019 / Intune, Policy, Policy Set, Policy Sets

As you know, you can define policies to applications and devices using Intune to ensure minimum requirements, compliance and define various configuration settings. Until now, you had to create and assign policies (to devices, users or application) one by one. Well, good news, you can now start creating policy sets to apply these policies from

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Azure AD Connect – You can now synchronize your password policy and force the password change at next logon (preview)

2 Comments / Azure Active Directory, Beta / Preview, Office 365 / Benoit HAMET / October 9, 2019 / AAD, AAD Connect, Azure Active Directory, Azure Active Directory Connect, Azure AD, Azure AD Connect, Cloud Password Policy, Force password change, Force password change at logon, Password Policy

As you know, you have been able to synchronize your user’s passwords with Azure AD Connect for quite some time now thanks to the password hash synchronization feature. However, there has been a small gap there: you were not able to get the “User must change password at next logon” attribute value synchronized to request

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Azure AD – You can now perform bulk actions on users and groups from the portal (preview)

Leave a Comment / Azure Active Directory, Beta / Preview / Benoit HAMET / October 8, 2019 / AAD, Azure Active Directory, Azure AD, Bulk, Bulk Group Management, Bulk User Management, Group Management, User Management

You may already have quite few scripts at your disposal to perform bulk actions on cloud user accounts and/or groups on Azure Active Directory (AAD). Well, maintaining (or using) these scripts is no longer a requirement as the Azure AD portal has been updated to allow you bulk actions on user accounts/groups. Bulk actions are

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