You may already know that Azure AD is using advanced technologies to protect your credentials, especially your password. It even detects if the password you are trying to use (when you have to change it due to expiration) has been used too much or has been compromised (or banned). This is a huge security feature […]
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An updated experience for alerts on Azure is coming (currently in preview). If you want to enable the new experience, access your Azure portal and reach the Monitor\Alerts blade, then click on the purple banner to enable it The new experience is providing better insight on alerts and what is happening on your Azure tenant/resources
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Good news, new Azure AD delegated management roles are available in preview: Application Administrator: This role provides the ability to manage all applications in the directory, including registrations, SSO settings, user and group assignments and licensing, Application Proxy settings, and consent. It does not grant the ability to manage conditional access. Cloud Application Administrator: This
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After releasing the GA version of the Azure Storage Explorer tool (see https://t.co/pb8nRwDRqi) Microsoft is making the Storage Explore available through the Azure portal. To enjoy this new capability, just logon to your Azure portal and access the Storage account you want to explore and reach the Storage Explorer blade
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An important change is coming (on July 1st) for Azure Information Protection which may affect users on Office 365 (more specifically the Exchange Online Message Encryption capabilities) If you are using AD RMS (the on-premises digital rights management solution) to protect your data (including for users on Office 365) you must opt out for this
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A new version of the Azure MFA Server (8.0.0.3) is available for download here https://aka.ms/mfadownload?download=mfa&clcid=0x9 This new version includes few improvements, like: Improved interaction with AD Sync Support for TLS 1.2 for LDAP, User Portal to Web Service SDK, and SChannel replication Accessibility improvements to User Portal, MFA Server management, and installation Compliance with General
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If you are using Azure File Sync preview (or planning to use it), the service has been updated. You can get the update Azure File sync agent either by running WindowsUpdate (or getting it from the WindowsUpdate catalog here http://www.catalog.update.microsoft.com/Search.aspx?q=4130942) or by downloading the updated agents from here https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=55988 If you are updating an existing
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A new version (1.27.48.0) of the Azure Information Protection (Azure AIP) client has been released and available for download at https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=53018 (as usual one as self install executable and one as MSI package for enterprise wide deployment). The main updates focus on the AIP Scanner: You can define (add/remove) specific file extension using the Add-AIPScannerScannedFileTypes/Remove-AIPScannerScannedFileTypes
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As you know Azure Storage is providing storage capabilities on Azure (either for files, blobs, queues or tables). Until then, when you needed to grant access to a storage space on Azure you had to use shared keys or SAS tokens. Now you can also use your Azure AD to grant access to Azure storage,
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Azure AD Conditional Access has been updated and is now supporting legacy clients like POP, IMAP or SMTP. If you wish to implement conditional access for these legacy clients/protocols, you need to choose the Other clients – available after click on the Advanced link – when configuring the conditional access EWS (Exchange Web Service) will
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