A new Entra ID administration role – People administrator – has been introduced to help managing people-related settings and profile photos without needing the high privileges of Global admin or User admin roles. This new role is being made available through the Entra ID portal (off course it can also be assigned using Privileged Identity […]
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When managing identity systems – such as Active Directory or Entra ID, from time to time, administrators must edit multiple users at once. Until then (and this is still the case for Active Directory, when you had to do such thing on Entra ID, administrators had to use a script. Well, good news as you
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Some time ago, Microsoft has introduced an SLA attainment health dashboard to allow customers following Entra ID SLA status over time. This dashboard is available from the Entra ID portal (https://entra.microsoft.com/) by accessing the Monitoring & health\Health blade. Well, this dashboard has been updated to also included additional scenarios (such as MFA, compliant/managed devices). These
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As introduced few month ago, Microsoft has deployed a settings to block (default) communication with trial Teams tenants (which include Visual Studio ones) (see Teams – You can now block federation with trial tenants). It was first only configurable using PowerShell and now is also available from the Teams administration portal (Users\External access blade) Well,
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Teams is a powerful collaboration tool allowing collaboration and communication within your organization and external one. Teams administrators can control which external organization can communicate with yours. Until then there was no way to block specific individual(s) to communicate with your organization. Well, good news as now Teams administrators can enable a functionality which will
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Copilot has been a big trend for the past few months in Microsoft world. As an M365 service, Copilot can be used across signed in accounts in clients that allow you to sign in with multiple accounts. While you can use Copilot accross different accounts, the Copilot data protection is still applied which restrict data
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You may have been aware of a major overhaul for Windows Update to allow deploying Windows Updates without having to restart (see Hotpatch for Windows Server | Microsoft Learn). This ‘hotpatch’ capability has been introduced first for Windows Server (2022, 2025) running in Azure and then started to be extended to Windows Server running on-premises
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As you know, you have the option to mark ‘as read’ all chat messages. Well, you now have a more granular option to ‘mark as read’ messages by choosing between All, chats or channels. This allows you to choose to mark as read specific message types while keeping others as unread – such as mark
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As you know, when installing Windows operating systems (client or server) you need a valid product key to enable to corresponding Windows Edition, also known as perpetual licensing. For Windows Server, the editions covered by such product key are either Standard or Datacenter. Well, that was true until Windows Server 2025 was released, as now
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As you know, Windows devices with OneDrive client allows your end-users to redirect their personal folders (Documents, Desktop….) to OneDrive. This allows leveraging some security capabilities provided by SharePoint Online/OneDrive, such as versioning or ability to recover complete OneDrive space in case of corruption or encryption by malware. This also replace the ‘old school’ roaming
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