Azure Virtual Desktop – You can now assign multiple personal desktops to user (preview)

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If you use Azure Virtual Desktop as virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) solution, you already know you have 2 different pool types: Personal: used for dedicated use by assigned user to provide a consistent and personalized environment (single VM per assigned users) Pooled: allow multiple users to share a set of users When you use the […]

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Entra ID – Ensure you are running at least a specific version of Entra ID Connect before April 7

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  If you are synchronizing your Active Directory with Entra ID using Entra ID Connect, it is a best practice to always keep up with the Entra ID Connect version and run the latest one.   Unfortunately, this is sometime forgotten and you may be running old/unsupported version of Entra ID Connect. Well, now is

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Entra ID – Get conditional access policy impact

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As you Entra ID allows you to protect and enforce access policies when users are accessing resources using Conditional Access (CA) policies. Conditional Access policies can have 3 state: Off: meaning the policy is not being applied On: meaning the policy is going to be applied depending of the targeted users/groups/admin roles, applications…. Report: meaning

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SharePoint Online / OneDrive – Removal of EEEU sharing permission

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EEEU, which stands for Everyone Except External Users, is a permission setting used in SharePoint Online and OneDrive to manage access to content. This setting allows all internal users in an organization to access certain content while excluding external users. While the use of this sharing option was discouraged by Microsoft (Grant Everyone claim to

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Entra ID – New administration role – People administrator

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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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Entra ID – Edit multiple users at once (preview)

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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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Entra ID – Health monitoring scenarios dashboard

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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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Teams – Allow communication with specified trial tenant

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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 – You can now block individual people from communicating with your organization

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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 – Admins will be able to manage multiple account to access Copilot in M365

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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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