Microsoft Azure

Office 365 – Azure AD Connect now support SQL 2016 and Windows Server 2016

The latest release of Azure AD Connect now officially supports SQL 2016 and Windows Server 2016, which also includes the ability to manage ADFS 4.0 (part of Windows Server 2016) You can download the new release here https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=47594&751be11f-ede8-5a0c-058c-2ee190a24fa6=True

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Azure / Office 365 – Azure AD Connect now support proxy authentication

If you are working with Office 365 and/or Azure services, you already know that you can synchronize your Active Directory to Azure Active Directory services with the directory synchronization tool Azure AD Connect. It has been a very long wait (since the first version of the MS cloud services, BPOS) to get the synchronization tool

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Azure – Azure Information Protection Public Preview

UPDATE:  In general availability in Sept. 15 th Microsoft is providing a new security features set using Azure RMS called Azure Information Protection. The idea is to help securing and classifying your data; making things easier for end-user. Don’t forget one the advantages of Azure RMS is you can share RMS protected documents/emails with the

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Azure – Interactive Azure Platform Big Picture and Symbols set

As Microsoft Azure is frequently evolving this can be quite a challenge to find/know what is available as well as getting documentation and pricing You can find all the current services/features on this interactive web site http://aka.ms/azposterapp In the same time, if you need to create Visio diagrams and/or documentation for your Azure services, you

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Azure – Azure RemoteApp is being retired

UPDATE 13/08 You can sign in to the Citrix TechPreview (scheduled for Q4 and GA 2017) here https://www.citrix.com/global-partners/microsoft/remote-app.html Microsoft has announced the retirement of the Azure Remote App solution. Azure RemoteApp was the ability to publish applications and resources using Remote Desktop technology through Azure, either in full cloud mode (ie application and applications/resources hosted

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Microsoft Authenticator – New version coming up on August 15th

A new version of the Microsoft Authenticator is coming on August 15th. As you may know, there has been multiple and different apps to manage MFA (Multi Factor Authentication) from Microsoft: one for Microsoft Account and one for Microsoft Corporate Account (Azure AD, Office 365…) on August 15th, this will not be the case anymore;

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Azure – Azure AD Connect Health for domain controllers

Microsoft has just released the preview for Azure AD Connect Health for Windows Servers AD. This feature is similar to the health agent used with Azure AD Connect to monitor the health of your directory synchronization instance with Azure AD and your ADFS but for On Premises Active Directory Domain Controllers. To be able to

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Security – Error after upgrading Multi Factor Authentication Server to version 7

If you are already using Microsoft Azure MFA with the on premises solution (Multi Factor Authentication Server) and want (or have already) to upgrade to the latest version (which is version 7.0.2 at the time of writing this post), you may experience the following error if you have integrated with ADFS (especially when you restart

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Azure / Office 365 – Conditional Access is now available in preview

Azure AD Conditional Access policies for Office 365 (Exchange and SharePoint Online) is now available in preview; additional services may be supported (see at the end of this post). This will make it easier to request multi-factor authentication when accessing Office 365 services. Until then, either you had to manage it at the ADFS level

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Microsoft Azure – Enterprise State Roaming in public preview

As you may already know, since Windows 8.x, user settings can synch to OneDrive (consumer) allowing end-users to sync their settings and universal apps data across different devices when they logon with their Microsoft account. Now, this settings is also available in public preview for enterprise users using Windows 10 (at least build 10586) and

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