Azure – Define ARM templates specs (preview)

By mow you already know you can use ARM (Azure Resource Manager) templates to deploy resources on Azure in automated and consistent way. Well, you can now define template specs, a new resource type for storing Azure template for future use. This also allows you sharing templates with other users in your organization, fixing known […]

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Azure – Azure Security Center is now helping you identifying weak network access

You may already know Azure Security Center, your one stop shop for anything security related on Azure, helping you managing and improving your security posture on your Azure resources (and also on-premises ones if you are in hybrid). Well, Azure Security Center is now also helping you identifying (or more importantly provides a better visibility)

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Office 365 – Get ready for end of support for Internet Explorer and Edge legacy

If you are still using Internet Explorer 11 or Edge Legacy (aka the first version of Edge) to access Office 365 services – like Outlook Web Access, Administration portals, Teams web  or SharePoint Online – you will need to prepare to the end of support of these browser. Starting November 30, 2020 the Teams web

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OneDrive for Business – You can now manage user storage limits from the administration portal

As you know Office 365 provides a personal storage space with OneDrive for Business. You also now you can define the storage limit (quota) applicable to all users. Good news, you can now define individual limit for OneDrive for Business directly from the Office 365 administration portal; meaning if you need to decrease/increase limit for

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Azure – You can now connect your Azure Cloud Shell to a virtual network

By now you may already know Azure Cloud Shell, available directly from the Azure/Office 365 portals or from the URL https://shell.azure.com, the shell management tool running directly from your web browser. Well, you can now connect Azure Cloud Shell with a virtual network on your Azure tenant; this could be handy when you have to

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Azure – Soft-delete will be enabled by default for Azure Key Vault

You may already know Azure Key Vault, the cloud solution provided by Azure to store securely secrets (like certificates, passwords…) You may already know there is a functionality available called soft-deleted allowing to recover deleted secret up to 90 days after the deletion. This option is available from the Properties blade of the Key Vault

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Azure AD Connect – Getting “An error occurred while connecting to the state store” error after updating AAD connect configuration

Recently I had to update the configuration of an existing Azure AD Connect – the directly synchronization tool from Microsoft to synchronize your Active Directory identities to Azure AD – instance. It was running the latest version at that time (1.5.42). The error was: An error occurred while connecting to the state store: Attempted to

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Azure – The Azure Security team has developed a Power BI Dashboard

The team in charge of Azure Security Center has developed a Power Bi dashboard to help you track your Secure Score evolution. It also includes backlog of actions to be performed. You will have 2 setup options: Edit a Power BI template with Power BI desktop Use a Power BI application Prepare your Azure environment

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Azure AD – You can now enable cloud groups for administration role assignment (preview)

As you know, all administrative permissions to manage any service or capability should be granted by assigning Azure AD administration roles. Well, until now, it was not possible to grant such administration role to a group of users. Good news, this capability is now available in preview. To start using group to grant administration role,

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