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Several SPO updates in this post. May be some of these interests you. I would like to see a good bit of control and improvement in Modern Search pages. As is, falls a good bit short to be an enterprise search.

Microsoft has released public preview of Azure Information Protection support for PDF with Adobe Reader. Till now a protected pdf file was changed to .ppdf and required AIP viewer to decrypt and view. With this public preview, viewing of protected PDF will be, kind of, natively supported. I say that because, it still requires a

Azure AD group based license assignment is GA now. I have implemented this at a few of my clients and they love it. No more scripting. Can be pretty creative when used with attribute based filtering, dynamic groups. Let me know if you need help. Azure AD group-based license management is now generally available

In Azure using IaaS workloads, the new Just-In-Time VM Access helps to mitigate a brute force attack by limiting the time that a port is kept open. Very easy to set up and can control SSH or RDP ports as applicable. This feature in preview now and should be GA soon. Enabling the option will

Nice little features for ODFB announced today at the conference. Admins will like External sharing reports, Known folders move. Security team will like some of the new features as password protected link and ability to disallow download. Business users will like Transfer ownership. Something for everyone.

Windows 10 introduced Windows Hello and the MFA to log into our laptop/desktop. This is great but requires one-to-one relationship between the user and the device. Because of the relationship, it will be painful to scale Windows Hello to Kiosk or Firstline workforce. This is where FIDO comes handy. Checkout this video to get a

See this announcement about the new architecture to enable outlook on mobile device Hybrid Modern AuthN. You will need to call your TAM or CSS to get this activated on your tenant.

This is BIG. Hope it works as I am thinking it should. I implemented policies with a couple of my clients but the Teams retention was a pain in that there was no integrated way to do it. One policy set at the Team level that applies to chat, mail, files. Not deployed to my

To my friends in Finance industry, you might find this helpful. The blog itself is about sharing an update rather than go deeply into encryption itself. However, there is a link to a white paper at the bottom, “Introduction to encryption in Office 365”, which you might find it very useful. Microsoft Encryption: Helping Financial