Sunday, July 31, 2016

Meetup Slides: Azure AD with Office 365 and Beyond!

I recently delivered a Meetup session on AzureAD in Chennai Microsoft Azure Group and had a great experience meeting fellow IT Pros in my region. I planned this session by beginning with the Basics and extend the discussion step by step towards the advanced features, and effectively shared my learning and real time experience with the participants and gained a lot of positive feedback.


Access the Meetup slides here: Azure AD with Office 365 and Beyond!

I would strongly encourage everyone to take active part in the Meetup events hosted in their regions by fellow Community members, This is the best place for you to share your learning and experience that puts you one level up in your career.

Azure Information Protection: Available in public preview now!

Following the announcement of Microsoft Azure Information Protection in June, Now Azure Information Protection is Available in public preview that  brings together Azure Rights Management (RMS) and classification and labeling technologies from Secure Islands.


This initial preview comprises two components:

  • An Azure management portal for the configuration and management of information protection policies, rules and labels.
  • An Azure Information Protection client for the consumption and enforcement of classification, labeling and protection policies across Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook (2010/13/16).

Add-on Read: 

Also read the new Office Blog posts on Information protection for Office 365 and a related reference for Admins.


Make sure your download the Information protection for Office 365 Poster that helps you plan your information protection strategy based on the needs of your organization.





Enterprise Mobility Suite (EMS) to Microsoft Enterprise Mobility + Security (EMS)

One of the most significant announcement for this month is the renaming of of Microsoft Enterprise Mobility Suite (EMS) to Microsoft Enterprise Mobility + Security (EMS) and the announcement of a new expanded EMS E5 plan. This change really makes sense with the current features available in the new plan.



Below are the change details,
  • Enterprise Mobility Suite becomes Enterprise Mobility + Security
    • a.    The existing Enterprise Mobility Suite becomes Enterprise Mobility + Security E3, with no change for existing EMS customers.
    • b.    A new expanded plan will be generally available in Q4 2016 and known as Enterprise Mobility + Security E5.
  • Azure Active Directory Premium
    • a.    The existing Azure AD Premium becomes Azure AD Premium P1, with no change for existing customers.
    • b.    Azure AD Premium P2, generally available later in Q3 2016, includes all the capabilities in Azure AD Premium P1 as well as the new Identity Protection and Privileged Identity Management capabilities.
  • Azure Rights Management + Secure Islands becomes Azure Information Protection
    • a.    The existing Azure Rights Management Premium becomes Azure Information Protection Premium P1, generally available in Q4 2016, with no change for existing Azure RMS customers.
    • b.    The P2 offer adds automatic classification, on top of the manual classification, labeling and everything else included in P1.
Access the Official Blog post here: Introducing Enterprise Mobility + Security

Know more about the new EMS E5 SKU here: The Endpoint Zone: September 2016 Edition

Access the documentation here: Enterprise Mobility + Security Documentation

Additionally, Microsoft Azure AD team recently announced the new step-by-step guided set up for Azure AD Premium. This helps Organizations to make sure they are getting the most from their Azure AD Premium subscription.




Update:

Access the below blog posts to know the latest EMS updates announced during the Microsoft Ignite Conference 2016 !

Securing your digital transformation with Microsoft Enterprise Mobility + Security

Take a look at the new Microsoft FastTrack for Enterprise Mobility + Security (EMS)

Microsoft FastTrack for EMS announces website updates, new resources, and more

Review the On Demand Microsoft Ignite Videos to know more...

Update:

New Blog post Series on EMS Conditional Access

Breaking down EMS Conditional Access: Part 1

Breaking down EMS Conditional Access: Part 2

Breaking down EMS Conditional Access: Part 3

Update:


Access few more key resources in the Microsoft TechNet Gallery for EMS

Stay tuned for more updates...

New Office 365 Network online community Public Preview

Microsoft team recently announced the public preview of the new Office 365 Network. With this movement Microsoft team is moving the Office 365 Network from yammer to their new Lithium platform. This change has generated mixed views from most of the existing members and Microsoft team is ready to hear your feedback and current Office 365 Network will permanently redirect to the new community starting September 1, 2016.


Go to the new Office 365 Network page here: https://network.office.com/

Access the Official Blog post here: Announcing the public preview of the new Office 365 Network online community

AzureAD News for the Month!

This month is quite significant for Azure AD with multiple announcements that made most of the customers delighted and this post is curating key ones in a single window with references.





Additionally, This Month we have a new Hybrid Identity and ADFS,  AzureAD Mailbag Series that answers important FAQs that exist today for most of of the customer using AD FS  in a Hybrid Idenity model with AzureAD.

AzureAD Mailbag: Hybrid Identity and ADFS

Azure D Mailbag: Hybrid Identity and ADFS Part 2

As AzureAD is evolving day by day, Expecting to see lot of new announcments in the upcoming months, stay tuned...

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