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You can now easily transfer a subscription you own to another user via the Azure Account Center. This means that you can update billing ownership, change the account admin to a different user, move your Azure subscription from one directory to another, or consolidate Azure and Office 365 subscriptions from multiple tenants.

Finally.

I’m Shai Kariv, responsible for the Program Management of a few investments we’re running on the Active Directory team. Some of my team members blogged here in the past about the upcoming release of Microsoft Identity Manager 2016 – and today I’m here to announce general availability!

If you’re invested in Microsoft’s Identity Management stack, today is a good day to go and look at the latest version of MIM (what used to be FIM) which includes a number of enhancements such as:

• Windows 10 full support
• Advanced scheduling options for privileged role activations, including self-service and approval options.
• Deep-scan security monitoring to detect anomalies across forests, like suspicious membership in privileged groups or use of SID history.
• Major additions to the PowerShell interface, including more search and management cmdlets, and updates to help and samples.

The product team already has some goals for the next 90 days which include:

• An add-on deployment pack for Microsoft Identity Manager, to further simplify automating the preparation of the privileged identity management environment, and hardening it
• setting up the privileged AD forest security principals
• configuring cross-forest trust
• turning off unnecessary interfaces and capabilities
• And more…

29th July 2015!