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SharePoint Online – Better integration with Azure AD B2B (preview)

You already know that you can share content stored in SharePoint Online and/or OneDrive for Business with external users member of another organization – this called B2B (Business to Business sharing. Well, this capability is going to get better as next time (after you enable it) a user shares content in B2B mode, a guest […]

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Azure – Azure Backup for SQL Server 2008/2008 R2 is in preview

As you are aware, Windows Server 2008 R2 and SQL Server 2008/2008 R2 are reaching their end of life. Microsoft has offered to extend the support of these products if you moved them to Azure for an additional 3 years to give more time for migration. That said, once you have move your SQL Server

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Azure – Better troubleshooting tools for Azure Web Apps (preview)

As you know, you can host web applications on Azure using Azure Application Services (also called Azure Web Apps). From time to time, something may goes wrong and the web application stops servicing request in a way or another. This has always been a difficult troubleshooting task as there are so many different components and

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Azure – You can now consolidate your cost management for AWS in Azure (preview)

Good news if you are using both Azure and Amazon Web Services (AWS) to host your workloads in cloud services: you can now have both your Azure and AWS cost reporting in the Azure Cost Management blade. You need to know this is free during the preview and then a 1% fee will incur at

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Microsoft Defender – Microsoft Defender Advanced Threat Protection is now available in public preview for MacOS

After a limited preview earlier in March, Microsoft Defender Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) is now available in public preview for MacOS devices. To get this preview, you need to have first turn the preview feature in your Security Center portal (see https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/security/threat-protection/microsoft-defender-atp/preview) All the documentation is available here https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/security/threat-protection/windows-defender-antivirus/microsoft-defender-atp-mac You can on-board Mac devices from

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Azure – Ephemeral OS Disk is now available in preview

You can now use Ephemeral OS disk in Azure Virtual Machine (Azure VM) when you are concern on the time taken to deploy at scale or reimage a virtual machine while not concerned with data (aka stateless workloads). The good point with Ephemeral OS disk is there is no storage cost associate with and it

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Azure – New administration roles available for Azure AD B2C

4 new administration roles have been available (in preview) for Azure Active Directory (AAD) B2C: B2C User Flow Administrator: allows to delegate user flows in Azure AD B2C administration B2C User Flow Attribute Administrator: allows to delegate user attributes in Azure AD B2C administration B2C IEF Keyset Administrator: allows delegation for Azure AD B2C key

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Azure AD – You can easily and automatically manage access to groups, applications and SharePoint sites for your users (internal and external)

As part of the identity and access control management on Azure AD, you can now use Azure AD Entitlement (also known as Azure AD Identity Governance) (in preview) to easily and automatically manage access to your groups or applications by your users, both internal (corporate) or external (guest). By using Azure AD Entitlement, you can

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Microsoft Teams – You can now set policies to prevent users or groups to communicate with each other

If you work in an environment where some information must not be shared with other departments or group of users – such as financial institution where people working on a deal, communication about this deal should not be shared with other departments to avoid potential conflict of interest, Teams now allows you to set a

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Azure AD – You can now use Directory Roles when configuring Conditional Access

As you know, Azure AD Conditional Access allows you to define conditions to allow or block access to Azure/Office 365 resource (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/conditional-access/overview). When configuring such conditional access, you define to which set of users/groups this apply (or not – aka exclude). Now, you can apply the conditional access policy by using the Directory Roles to

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