When testing new policies or deploying applications it’s useful to force a policy refresh. In iOS you can force this when using the latest Company Portal.

Follow these easy steps:

1. Open the Company Portal
2. Select your device in use
3. Hit the Sync button

In one of the last posts we discussed the option to put a Web Application Proxy in the DMZ as a reverse proxy for NDES. You could request a hotfix via Microsoft Support in order to get this to work. The good news is that you no longer have to contact support, it’s available in the in the December Windows Update:

Large URI request in Web Application Proxy fails in Windows Server 2012 R2
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/3011135

Just install the latest Windows Update on your Windows Server 2012 R2 and you should be good to go:

December 2014 update rollup for Windows RT 8.1, Windows 8.1, and Windows Server 2012 R2
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/3013769

In this post I will show you how to assign EMS licenses using the Azure Portal.
Open a browser, to prevent cookie issues I recommend to use InPrivate mode.

Navigate to http://manage.windowsazure.com/ and sign-in using your administrator account for your tenant (e.g. admin@mycompanyname.onmicrosoft.com)

After successful logon, on the left side navigate to Active Directory. Select the desired directory.

After selecting the directory, navigate to the License section.
Select the EMS licenses that are bound to this tenant. In case your licenses don’t show up you will have to call support to have your licenses assigned.

From this point you can either assign licenses to individual users or a group.

After selecting a group or individual you can assign licenses by pressing the “assign” button at the bottom of the screen.

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