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Azure AD – A new version of Azure AD Connect is available with support for employeeLeaveDateTime

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  UPDATED a newer version (2.1.20) is now available to fix synchronization issue for employeeLeaveDateTime (see https://t.co/PQqgAu2m3X)   Back in July 2021, Microsoft has introduce a new attribute (employeeHireDate) to help manage users’ lifecycle (see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/api/resources/identitygovernance-lifecycleworkflows-overview?view=graph-rest-beta). Well, the new version of Azure AD Connect (2.1.19 – available for download here https://www.microsoft.com/download/details.aspx?id=47594) is now adding the […]

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Azure AD – You can now use app filtering when configuring conditional access (preview)

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As you know, Azure AD (P1 license minimum) allows you to set up conditional access to secure access to your applications and your workloads identities. Well, when it comes to selecting the applications/workloads to include in the condition you have the choice to apply to all cloud application or explicitly selected ones. The later obviously

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Azure AD – You can now define the multifactor authentication strength (preview)

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Azure AD comes with a lot of security features – some recent such as Passwordless authentication, some less recent such as conditional access – helping protecting your identities and workloads access. Well, in the never ending journey to keep secure identities and data, the Conditional Access feature has been updated to allow administrators to request

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Azure AD – You can now view delegated partners in AAD

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If you work with Microsoft Cloud services, like Azure or Office 365, you probably know that you can grant delegated administration access to partners to help you managing and supporting your environment. Until now, the only place to see the delegated admin partners was from the Office 365 administration portal (https://admin.microsoft.com/) under the Settings\Partner Relationships

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Azure / Azure AD – You can now access your Azure AD tenant using the Azure mobile application

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If you work with workloads running in Azure, you probably already know the Azure mobile application which allows you to have a view and let you manage your Azure subscriptions and resources on the go. iOS: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/microsoft-azure/id1219013620 Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.microsoft.azure Well, the Azure mobile application has been recently updated to start filling a gap with this

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Azure – You can now restrict access to the BitLocker recovery key (preview)

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As you probably already know when you enable BitLocker on a Windows device you can save the recovery key to either Active Directory, Azure Active Directory, a USB device, a file or even print it. By default, end-users can access the BitLocker recovery key for the device they own by accessing the BitLocker keys blade

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Azure AD – You can now use automatic assignment with Access Package

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If you have an Azure AD P2 or Enterprise Mobility + Security E5 license, you are probably aware about the Identity Governance capabilities which allows you to control identity and access lifecycle at scale. One of these capabilities is Access Package which allows you to create packages of content (groups, Teams, SharePoint sites) and application

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Azure AD / Azure – Subscriptions filter in AAD and Azure portal are not in sync

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As you may be aware, you can enable Azure AD Diagnostic Settings to send the logs to either an Azure Log Analytics, an Azure Storage Account, an Azure Event Hub or a partner solution to keep and manage Azure AD logs (sign in, audit, authentication logs) by configuring the AAD Diagnostic Settings. Well, I ended

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Yammer – A new Azure AD administration role for Yammer is available

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  This is probably the last Office 365 workload which did not had an Azure AD administration role available to delegate his administration.   Yammer is now getting an Azure AD administration role – Yammer Administrator.   When you grant users (or groups as you can also now use Azure AD groups to grant administration

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Azure AD – Improvements in certificate based authentication

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As you are probably aware, Azure AD is now supporting certificate based authentication (in preview – see https://t.co/b09Hn1AXum). Well, the certificate based authentication has been improved by providing the ability to use certificate to authenticate with Windows Logon and easier certificate root management. To use a certificate (using a Smart Card) during Windows Logon you

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