Office 365 – New Users section in the administration portal; Guest Users

I have noticed on my Office 365 Administration Portal a new section within the Users section: Guest users. This section returns all users which have been invited to access your tenant data – mainly from a SharePoint share link If this is not yet available to your tenant, it will come soon (mine is enabled

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Office 365 – You can mark actions from Secure Score as managed by third party

As you may know Office 365 Secure Score is a tool to help you securing your Office 365 tenant by checking your configuration and compare against best practices and recommendations. Microsoft has updated the Secure Score to allow you define recommended/proposed actions as managed by third party. This will help by keeping the recommended action

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Azure – Use Azure Backup Server to backup your Exchange On Premises

To perform the following steps you must first have installed and configure Microsoft Azure Backup Server (MABS); you can check http://blog.hametbenoit.info/2017/07/03/azure-install-and-configuration-of-azure-backup-server/ to do so Define a protection group for Exchange server The MABS agent must have been deployed first on all Exchange servers Once the agent has been deployed you can create the protection group

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Azure – Azure Backup Server adding Azure Recovery Vault to the console

Once you have installed and configured Microsoft Azure Backup Server (MBAS) and started to define protection groups to perform backups and save it to the cloud, you will need to add the Azure Recovery Vault used to save the backups to your MABS console. First you need to re download the credentials file as the

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Azure – Install and configuration of Azure Backup Server

With the release of the v2 of Microsoft Azure Backup Server (MABS) which supports Windows Server 2016, here is post to install and configure it – on Windows Server 2016 of course. Azure Configuration Connect to your Azure tenant with a global administrator account to create a Recovery Vault Browse to reach the Recovery Services

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Yammer – Integration with Skype for Business

Starting now for first release tenant and then mi July, Yammer is integrating with Skype for Business. Finally Microsoft is really integrating Yammer with his own product and start replacing duplicate features with the best. So the Yammer IM chat is going to be removed and you will get the Skype icon in the navigation

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Azure AD Connect – You can now update ADFS certificate, change the Source Anchor and grant SendOnBehalf permissions

After installing the latest version of Azure AD Connect (1.1.553.0), you will have the ability to update use it to update your ADFS Certificate (if you use AAD Connect to configure ADFS) as well as the ability to change the Source Anchor without having to reinstalling. Also a good news for Exchange Hybrid configuration, the

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Azure AD Connect – You need to upgrade your Azure AD Connect if using password write-back

Microsoft has released a security bulletin related Azure AD Connect. If you are using password write-back you need to upgrade it to the version 1.1.553.0 (released this June) urgently as you are vulnerable to a vulnerability which could allow attackers to reset passwords. Details about the security bulletin here: https://technet.microsoft.com/library/security/4033453.aspx?f=255&MSPPError=-2147217396 Download the latest version of

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