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Azure – Per-Application Multi Factor Authentication (MFA)

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As you may already know, Microsoft has proposed to secure access to your cloud (as well as you on-premises) application using MFA (Multi Factor Authentication) based on Azure MFA (formerly Phone Factor) – see http://blog.hametbenoit.info/2014/08/18/azure-use-windows-azure-multi-factor-authentication-to-secure-your-on-premises-application-and-with-your-adfs/ (on-premises MFA) and http://blog.hametbenoit.info/2013/10/11/office-365-setup-multi-factor-authentication/ or http://blog.hametbenoit.info/2013/06/17/office-365-manage-multiple-factors-authentication/ for Office 365 and cloud apps for more details. But, until then, as soon […]

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Azure AD – Azure AD Connect Health

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Azure AD Connect Health is a new feature available on Microsoft Azure for Azure Active Directory. This new functionality requires you have an Azure Active Directory Premium and allows you to monitor your identity platforms. This is currently in preview. This will help you to be proactive before potential issues impact your end-users, gather statistics

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Azure – Azure backup now supports Windows client

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After the server side, Microsoft has published an update for Windows 7 and 8 clients to allows these clients to take advantage of the Azure service called Azure Backup. Go there to download and install the package and starts backing up your clients on Azure http://support.microsoft.com/kb/3015072

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Microsoft Azure – Cost Estimation Tool

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Microsoft has update his Azure Cost Estimation tool now available at http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=43376 After his installation, you will be able to scan your on premises environment (running either on a physical server or an hypervisor like Hyper V, SCVVM or ESx) and get an estimation cost for the same environment on Azure As sample, here is

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Azure RMS – Deploying Azure Rights Management service connector to use Azure RMS On Premises

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As you may already know, one of the most complicated task for IT and security guys is to ensure sensitive corporate data are well protected. To help them in this task, Microsoft has introduced a technology called Right Management Services (RMS) since about a decade (first release has been provided with Windows Server 2003 as

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Office 365 – Multi Factor allows to remember the device (preview)

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As you may already, Microsoft has included on Office 365 Enterprise plans the ability to implement and use a multi factor authentication process to secure access to Office 365, in addition of the classic logon/password. It seems this feature will now allows remembering the device for a period of days defined by the administrator; meaning

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Office 365 / Microsoft Azure – Azure Active Directory Connect tool installation and configuration

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Following the availability of the Azure Active Directory Connect tools allowing multi forest synchronization, attributes selection and much more (and even more to come ), this post will details the installation and configuration steps. First download the tool from http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=511690  IMPORTANT this synchronization tool is not available from the usual link shown on the Office

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Microsoft Azure – Azure Active Directory Synchronization tool is now live (Office 365 Multi AD Forest sync)

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Microsoft has announced the availability of the Azure Active Directory Synchronization tool – do not mix with Office 365 Directory Synchronization which supports ONLY one AD Forest . This synchronization tool helps to synchronize your On Premises AD with Azure AD, covering multi AD forest sync, attributes selection… This is the first release of this

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Azure Active Directory – Registered Devices are not synched between Active Directory and Azure Active Directory

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Following my previous post about this feature in preview on Azure Active Directory allowing you to set up Join Workplace / Register Devices – see http://blog.hametbenoit.info/2014/06/27/microsoft-azure-azure-active-directory-device-registration-in-preview/, I ran into an issue. Registered devices are not synched between AD and AAD; devices registered on AD do not show up on Azure portal and device registered on

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Microsoft Azure – Now supporting reverse DNS

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Big news today Microsoft has announced that Microsoft Azure, his PaaS solution, is now supporting Reverse DNS for all Azure services; and mostly, this is also backward compatible for all existing services. To know more about this announcement and how to use it see http://azure.microsoft.com/blog/2014/07/21/announcing-reverse-dns-for-azure-cloud-services/

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