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Azure – Customize Azure Advisor to your need

You can now customize Azure Advisor to get advice tuned to your need. To do so, access your Azure ARM portal (https://portal.azure.com) and access the Azure Advisor (keyword Advisor) blade You can also use this direct link http://aka.ms/AzureAdvisor Then access the Configure section (button on top) Then for each subscription, you can select for which […]

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Intune – Conditional Access is moving to be only on Azure AD

On January 2018, conditional access policies for Intune will be moved for good to Azure AD. Until now (and January 2018), conditional access configuration is/was available through the ‘classic’ Silverlight Intune portal, Intune App Protection (MAM) blade and classic Azure AD portal. If you have policies configured on any of these previous access point, you

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Intune – Enrollment status screen

With Windows 10 build 1709 (Fall Creators Update) and Intune, you can now provide details to the end-user while enrolling the device. This can be quite helpful to let them know what is going on as well as for troubleshooting purpose. To enable and configure it, you need to logon to your Azure ARM portal

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Azure – New major version for Azure PowerShell

Azure PowerShell has reached a new major milestone with the release of the latest major version (5.0.0). As for any new version there is a lot of improvements and new cmdlets but also few breaking changes. To get the MSI package go there https://github.com/Azure/azure-powershell/releases/download/v5.0.0-November2017/azure-powershell.5.0.0.msi To know all the breaking changes and update accordingly your scripts,

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Azure – Get your ExpressRoute monitored with this preview feature

A new feature is coming on Azure to help you gaining insight on your ExpressRoute. With this new ExpressRoute monitoring solution you will be able to gain a comprehensive network monitoring between your branch offices, VNet and now ExpressRoute, including lost packets, bandwidth usage and network route analysis. This monitoring feature is using the Network

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Azure AD – Allow end-users to reset password or PIN from the login screen

UPDATE January 2023 It is now easier to enable this option without a custom device profile https://t.co/IVCMZ5nCmk UPDATE 21 nov 2017 You can also use the registy key HKLM\Software\Policies\Microsoft\AzureADAccount to enable this. Create a DWORD key named AllowPasswordReset with the value 00000001. I have tested with an AAD Joined device managed with SCCM. Will test

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Azure AD – New Azure AD Resilience feature coming, update to your ADFS required

New Azure Active Directory (AAD) feature is coming to provide more resilience. If you are using federated authentication, like with AD FS, you must be prepared and update your federation service to use the new endpoints. If you are using AD FS and use Azure AD Connect to configure/maintain it, Azure AD Connect will do

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Intune – Troubleshooting assistant to resolve end-user’s issues

Troubleshooting Intune issues can be painful and complicated. To help you in this task, a new troubleshooting assistant has been introduced. Access to this troubleshooting assistant is easy: either use the direct URL http://aka.ms/intunetroubleshooting or through the portal by searching for Intune and go to the Help and Support\Troubleshoot section Then you start troubleshooting the

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Azure AD Connect – Troubleshooting functionality now available

With the latest Azure AD Connect (AAD Connect) version (1.1.647.0) published October 19th 2017 (available at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=615771) a new troubleshooting functionality is available. This functionality is going to help you troubleshooting (at first) password synchronization issues and When starting the troubleshooting tool, a PowerShell prompt is launched, then you have to define what you want

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