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( votes)In August, JourneyTEAM hosted the Q3 Tech Insider Update webinar that introduced the latest Microsoft releases, updates, and changes, including those to Microsoft Cloud and Office 365. Learn about the updates to CRM, Exchange Online, Azure Active Directory, and Intune – now Microsoft Unified Endpoint Management.
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Exchange Online
- Modern Authentication
- Mailbox Import/Export
- Outlook App Updates
- Team Calendar Access for On-premises Clients
Exchange Online PowerShell V2 cmdlets (now in GA) support modern authentication and unattended scripts for more secure user authorization. The V2 cmdlets, which were previously only available in preview mode, are more reliable and efficient than their predecessors and 4-8x faster. Note that the V1 cmdlets will be retired in the second half of 2021. A modern authentication UI is now available in Office 365 Admin Center under “Settings” that allows easy enabling/disabling of authentication for various services and components.
Easily recover deleted mailbox items through a simple UI in the Office 365 Admin Center. Previously this feature was available only through PowerShell. This feature requires that “Mailbox Import Export” RBAC role for accounts is enabled.
Higher security controls on corporate data access on mobile devices: This includes controls on conditional access, improved security for Android 10 devices, and enforcing greater password complexity requirements. In line with your organizational policies, you can determine the level of password complexity, which is encouraged as you review current password policies. Updates to the app also include the ability to book workspaces in both Android and Mac.
Calendars are now viewable in Teams in the cloud and Exchange on-premises. A couple easy steps is all it takes to enable this to work.
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Azure AD (Active Directory)
- Workday and Azure AD Integration
- Azure AD Graph API Updates
- Access Reviews for Specific Groups and Users
- Alternate Login
- Support for Remote Desktop Services Web Client
- Azure AD Sign-ins Portal: https://mysignins.microsoft.com
Great news if your organization uses Workday for HR: updates to the Workday to Azure AD integration now promote greater efficiency in the onboarding and offboarding processes. Thanks to the updates to this powerful integration, HR departments that use Workday as a master into Azure AD can reduce its dependency on IT for provisioning and deprovisioning. They will also have access to emails, usernames, and phone numbers that come directly from AD.
The integration can now also automate the creation or disabling of an account in Azure AD. For example, if the hiring process is rescinded for any reason, it will disable account creation in Azure AD. Further, new AD accounts will only be created after the “New Hire” process is completed.
Announcement: If your current setup talks to the Azure AD graph (not the Microsoft Graph for all Office 365 services), please note that security updates and support will stop on June 30, 2022. Organizations using Azure AD graph applications are advised to migrate to Microsoft Graph now.
Azure AD access reviews can now be added to specific groups and users, which is a great addition to your organization’s cloud governance and identity management initiatives. This enables control and specific targeting of what users can access. Some automation capabilities for this are available through Microsoft Graph (beta).
Alternate Login, now available in public preview on Azure, allows users to log in using their email address (instead of limited to username only), even if the email address and username are different. If your organization has usernames that are different than users’ primary email addresses, this allows authentication to Azure without having to change a UPN or username to match the email address.
Updates to Remote Desktop: Azure Ad Proxy allows publishing of Remote Desktop Services through the web with additional security. This works if Ad Proxy is later than version 1.5.1975.0.
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Microsoft Intune – Now Named Microsoft Unified Endpoint Management
- Autopilot for Azure AD
- Hybrid Join Scenarios – No VPN Needed!
Microsoft recently rolled out the autopilot feature for Azure AD hybrid join scenarios. Administrators can domain join a Windows 10 computer when that computer is off the corporate network. This allows a hands-off experience for IT where they do not have to touch the computer at any point. The device is joined to traditional AD on-prem with no VPN required. This is a particularly important new feature for organizations that have been interested in autopilot but are not ready to do Azure AD joining for Windows 10 devices and still need group policies and traditional on-prem models.
The webinar is available online so that organizations get the details on what’s new and learn how these updates may affect their IT and cybersecurity governance and risk management initiatives. Watch the full JourneyTEAM Q3 2020 Tech Insider Update HERE.
Learn about the latest updates from Microsoft and get started on a path to better technology solutions at your organization with the help of JourneyTEAM
Want to learn more about the latest updates and releases to other Microsoft technologies relevant to your organization? Check out JourneyTEAM’s Tech Insider Update playlist, where you can browse the most recent updates by Microsoft product.
In addition to Microsoft Cloud, the Q3 Insider Update highlights changes to Teams, SharePoint, Dynamics 365 Customer Engagement (CRM), Power Platform Automate and Power Apps, Dynamics 365 Business Central (ERP), and Power BI and Business Analytics.
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