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Intune – You can now create your custom firewall rules for Windows Defender Firewall

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Good new if you have implemented an Endpoint Protection policy in Intune (hope you did ): you can now create your very own Defender Firewall rules. As you know, with the Endpoint Protection policy you were able to configure Windows Defender Firewall to have it enabled as well as few basic settings like merging (or […]

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Exchange Online – New file type being added into the blocked list

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New file types will be added into the block file type list. Based on Microsoft’s evaluation, these file types are rarely used. If one of these file types is already added into your allowed list, it will not be added into the blocked list. The below table lists the new file type being blocked: File

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Security – You can now backup your Microsoft Authenticator application

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It has been a long awaited feature for the Microsoft Authenticator application: being able to backup your multi factor accounts and recover them. Well, the wait is now over as you can now backup your MFA accounts and off course recover them when reusing the same account. It works for both personal and work profiles

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Office 365 – It is now simpler to submit suspicious content to Microsoft for investigation

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As you may already know, with Office 365 and Exchange Online you already had to the possibility to report suspicious content (in that case email) by using the Report Message add-in (an the other way around too if an email was identified as spam but was not). Well, now it is becoming simpler for Office

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Azure – The Security Center now provides ‘one click’ remediation (preview)

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As you know, Azure integrates a security dashboard, called Azure Security Center (ASC), to help you have a bird view on the security state of your Azure (but not only as it also provides details from your on-premises) environment. The Azure Security Center has been updated to provide a ‘one click’ remediation (when available) when

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Azure – You can now assign multiple public IP addresses to your Azure Firewall

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You can now associate up to 100 public IP with your Azure Firewall. This allows you to implement more NAT scenario – Source NAT (SNAT) and/or Destination NAT (DNAT). A DNAT scenario will be translating the same communication port (let say TCP 443 for example) while targeting different internal host. A SNAT scenario will allows

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Teams – Teams is getting Advanced Threat Protection support

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As you may already know, Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) has been supported and integrated with SharePoint and OneDrive for quite some time now. Well, good news, Microsoft Teams is now getting ATP support too, providing better security for files uploaded. If you already have turned on ATP for SharePoint and OneDrive, you have nothing to

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Azure RMS – Azure AD RMS PowerShell CMDlets are going to be deprecated

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As you know you have been able to manage Azure AD Rights Management Service (AADRM) with PowerShell for quite some time using the corresponding PowerShell module. As since then, Azure AD RMS has evolved to become Azure Information Protection, these PowerShell CMDlets will be deprecated by July 15th 2020. After this date, the Azure AD

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Azure AD – You can now use FIDO2 keys and Microsoft Authenticator App to authenticate against Azure AD

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You can now enable password-less authentication to Azure AD, including Azure AD Application, with Microsoft Authenticator App, Fido2 Keys or Windows Hello. To start using the new password-less authentication methods, logon to your Azure AD portal (https://aad.portal.azure.com/) or Azure portal (https://portal.azure.com) and reach out the Authentication methods blade From there you can enable FIDO2 Security

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Azure AD – New insights reporting authentication methods activity in preview

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After having introduced in preview the Usage and Insights for Azure AD Application (see https://t.co/0TLTScRjWI), you can now also have the same insights for the authentication methods used to authenticate against Azure AD. To start using this ‘reporting’ feature, logon to your Azure AD (https://aad.portal.azure.com) or your Azure (https://portal.azure.com/) portal and reach out the Azure

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