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Microsoft Teams – You can now set policies to prevent users or groups to communicate with each other

If you work in an environment where some information must not be shared with other departments or group of users – such as financial institution where people working on a deal, communication about this deal should not be shared with other departments to avoid potential conflict of interest, Teams now allows you to set a […]

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Azure AD – You can now use Directory Roles when configuring Conditional Access

As you know, Azure AD Conditional Access allows you to define conditions to allow or block access to Azure/Office 365 resource (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/conditional-access/overview). When configuring such conditional access, you define to which set of users/groups this apply (or not – aka exclude). Now, you can apply the conditional access policy by using the Directory Roles to

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Azure – AzCopy is now able to copy data from AWS to Azure Storage (preview)

A new version of AzCopy (v10) currently in preview allows you to copy data from your Amazon Web Services (AWS) S3 bucket to Azure Storage. If you want to evaluate this capability and performance, get the AzCopy v10 preview client: Windows https://aka.ms/downloadazcopy-v10-windows MacOS https://aka.ms/downloadazcopy-v10-mac Linux https://aka.ms/downloadazcopy-v10-linux Then you can run the below commands to copy

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Azure – A desktop application is available in preview for users ‘stuck’ with Internet Explorer

A Windows desktop application is available in preview for users ‘stuck’ with Internet Explorer to help getting a ‘modern’ experience. It is (or should) known that Internet Explorer is no longer being viewed as a ‘modern’ web browser and as such end-users (including administrators) may experience ‘interesting’ behaviour while using IE. in the meantime, Microsoft

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Azure – Windows Virtual Desktop is now available in preview

After having being announced some time ago, the Windows Virtual Desktop (WVD)  solution is now available in preview. Based on Windows 10 operating system, this delivers multi-user session on Windows 10, quick scalability and supports Windows Server Remote Desktop Service apps. Windows Virtual Desktop is free is you have Microsoft 365 E3, E5 or F1

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Azure – Azure Storage Explorer now integrates AzCopy (preview)

If you work with Azure Storage feature, you already know (and probably also use) Azure Storage Explorer and/or AzCopy. Well, good news, AzCopy is now integrated (in preview) with Azure Storage Explorer (starting with version 1.7.0 available for download here https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=708343&clcid=0x409 for Windows) – as there is no version displayed anywhere you can check the

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Azure Information Protection – New advanced settings for AIP

There has been few new advanced settings made available for Azure Information Protection (AIP): Report an issue from the AIP client Pop-up in Outlook to warm, justify or block sending emails To implement these advanced settings you need to the Advanced Settings option available in the contextual menu of the policy   Report an issue

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Azure – Blueprints now has built-in samples

UPDATED March 8 – 10:50 AM: blueprints for shared services and ASE/SQL workloads will be released next week. Blueprints for PCI compliance is in the roadmap Azure Blueprints – the Azure feature allowing you to define policies for managing your Azure environment – has been updated and now propose built-in samples to help you quickly

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Azure – Azure Premium Blog Storage now available in preview

The public preview of Azure Premium Blog Storage is now available. Premium Blob Storage is providing quicker data access by using SSD (solid-state drive) than with ‘classic’ Blob Storage (about 10 times quicker). This new storage capability on Azure can be helpful for workloads with high transaction rates, like IoT or Telemetry. Premium Blog Storage

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Azure – A new security capability is now available in preview: Azure Sentinel

Azure Sentinel is a cloud-based  security information event management (SIEM) and security orchestrator automated response (SOAR)  providing you security analytics and threats intelligence from a single point. During the preview, Azure Sentinel is free of charge. Final pricing will be announced at a later stage; data import from Office 365 is free. To start using

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