Azure – Extend Azure to your on-premises with ARC

As announced at the Microsoft Ignite 2019 Conference (see https://t.co/3saEyWJRta) you can now extend Azure Resource Manager (ARM) capabilities – including your Azure governance policies – to your on-premises servers with Azure ARC, as well as other cloud services. By extending ARM outside of Azure, you will be able to see your servers on the […]

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Azure – You can now use a central configuration and management point for Azure Firewall

You may already know Azure Firewall, the managed, cloud-based network security solution protecting your Azure virtual network resources. Well, good news, you can now have a central configuration and management point for Azure Firewall, called Azure Firewall Manager, to help you manage your cloud-based security perimeters. Azure Firewall Manager works with Azure Virtual WAN Hub

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Azure AD – You can now configure Admin Consent workflow

As you may already know, applications integrated with Azure AD may required administrators consent to allow them access your Azure AD data (for example read user profile). When a user tries to access an application with requires admin consent but has not been approved it, it starts to be a long support process to get

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Azure – You can now request code analysis with Microsoft Secure Code Analysis

With the Microsoft Security Code Analysis extension, you can integrate security analysis tools including Credential Scanner, BinSkim, and others into your Azure DevOps continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD) pipelines. Such code review is highly recommended as per the Secure Development Lifecycle (SDL) recommendations. This feature will increase your developers productivity while ensuring your code is

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SharePoint Online – You can now enable Azure Information Protection Sensitivity label on SharePoint Online and OneDrive

As you know, you have been able to integrate Azure Right Management Services (Azure RMS) with SharePoint Online for quite a long time already. That said, since Azure RMS has become Azure Information Protection and now also integrates Sensitivity Label, SharePoint Online (and OneDrive for Business) were not able to process the content of the

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Teams – Private channel is now here

It has been announced quite some time ago, Microsoft Teams Private Channel is now available. First thing, you need to ensure your administrator is allowing Private Channel (which should be on by default). To check the policy, logon to your Teams administration portal (https://admin.teams.microsoft.com/) and check the Teams policy/policies to ensure at least Create private

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Azure – You can now use Azure AD Authentication to logon on Windows virtual machines (preview)

After  getting the ability to logon on Linux virtual machines on Azure using your Azure AD credentials (see http://blog.hametbenoit.info/2018/05/23/azure-you-can-use-your-azure-ad-credentials-to-logon-to-linux-vm/), you can now also do the same with Windows virtual machine (Windows Server 2019 Datacenter and Windows 10 1809 [or later]), available to all Azure regions. To be able to use it, you need to ensure

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Office 365 – You can define Favorites administration roles

As you already know, the Roles page on Office 365 administration portal (https://admin.microsoft.com/) allows you to manage Office 365 roles assigned to your users. Well, you can now define your favorites administration roles (aka the one you use/manage the most) to filter the available roles to only those ones. To set an administration role as

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Office – OneNote 2016 mainstream support is going to continue

For those who still use OneNote 2016 and still do not have moved to the OneNote Windows 10 app (I am one of them ) – probably because there is still to much gap between OneNote 2016 and OneNote app, here is a good news. Despite what was announced in 2018, Microsoft is reversing and

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Azure – A new major version of Azure PowerShell modules (Az) is now available

  A new Azure PowerShell modules (Az) (version 3.0) has been released and is available for download either using MSI packages or Install-Module command       x86 MSI package: https://github.com/Azure/azure-powershell/releases/download/v3.0.0-November2019/Az-Cmdlets-3.0.0.30818-x86.msi x64 MSI package: https://github.com/Azure/azure-powershell/releases/download/v3.0.0-November2019/Az-Cmdlets-3.0.0.30818-x64.msi Install-Module command: Install-Module -Name Az -Repository PSGallery –Force or Update-Module -Name Az (if already had Az PowerShell module installed) As

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