Azure AD group-based license management for Office 365 and more
This looks awesome - simplify licence management for Office 365, EMS, Dynamics 365 and more with the new group-based licensing preview in Azure AD: Microsoft cloud services such as Office 365, Enterprise Mobility + Security, Dynamics CRM, and other similar products require licenses to be assigned to each user who needs access to these services. Until now, licenses could only be assigned at individual user level, which can male large-scale management difficult for our customers. We have introduced a new capability of the Azure AD license management system: group-based licensing. It is now possible to assign one or more product licenses to a group. Azure AD will make sure that the licenses are assigned to all members of the group. Any new members joining the group will be assigned the appropriate licenses and when they leave the group those licenses will be removed. This eliminates the need for automating license management via PowerShell to reflect changes in the organization and departmental structure on a per-user basis. Here is the documentation with the steps to get started - What is group-based licensing in Azure Active Directory?The final push to GA "Azure AD in new Azure Portal": We need your help!
Hello folks, We`re making our final push to the General Availability of "Azure Active Directory in the new Azure Portal", and we need your help to make sure it is great for you. As Alex Simons shared: "Last September we shared the first preview of the new administration experience for Azure Active Directory in the new Azure portal. Since then, we’ve added lots of new functionality, including reporting, app management, conditional access, B2B, and licensing. Many of you are using the new experience regularly – in fact, over half a million of you are using it, from almost every country in the world, with usage increasing by about 25% each month. We appreciate all your positive feedback, and love the constructive feedback that’s helped us make an even stronger product. But there are still a LOT of you using the old portal. Late last week we turned on the another set of feature updates, and the new experience now has all of the features identity admins frequently use. With that update, we’ve entered our final push to GA the UX in the next ~60 days. And that’s where we need your help: We need everyone to move over to using the new portal for production tasks so we can uncover any last minute lingering issues." Please, do read Alex` blog post for more details and send us your feedback in the ‘Admin Portal’ section of our feedback forum. Let us know what you think!#AzureAD Connect Health: Monitoring for Windows Server AD DS and Sync Error Reports are GA
It’s a big day for Azure AD! I’m happy to let you know that: Azure AD Connect Health for Windows Server AD DS is now GA! Azure AD Connect Health Sync Error Reports is now GA! Based onyour feedback, we’vesimplified the Azure AD Connect Health licensing model. More information at: https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/enterprisemobility/2017/02/27/azuread-connect-health-monitoring-for-windows-server-ad-ds-and-sync-error-reports-are-ga-simplified-licensing/A new version of the Azure AD PowerShell module is available
In case you missed it (like I did), last week a new version of the Azure AD PowerShell module was released. You can get it here: https://www.powershellgallery.com/packages/AzureAD/2.0.0.55 Release notes can also be found on the same page. There are a lot of new/changed cmdlets compared to the GA version, for example all the domain cmdlets. If you are following the Preview version of the module, most of the new stuff will be familiar however.March Member Madness Contest!
Think you can provide some fantastic content this month, or be the most active community member? We have some extra incentive for you in our March Member Madness contest, where you can win one of 15 pairs of Bose Noise Cancelling Headphones! The winners will be the top 5 members in the community in three categories: Most Posts, Most Likes Given, and Most Likes Received. I’m excited to see the contributions from the Azure Active Directory community, and hope to spark insightful dialogue around Identity and Microsoft Cloud. For more information, check out the post on Community AnnouncementsWhat’s new in Azure Active Directory B2C?
Over the past few weeks, we have introduced new features in Azure AD B2C, a cloud identity service for app developers. Azure AD B2C handles all your app’s identity management needs, including sign-up, sign-in, profile management and password reset. In the post, you'll learn about: Single-page app (SPA) support Usage reporting APIs Friction-free consumer sign-up Read the whole post here.
