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Azure – Get ready for depreciation of some VPN gateway SKUs

As you are probably already aware, if not check this https://blog.hametbenoit.info/2022/09/28/azure-you-will-need-to-upgrade-your-basic-public-ip-by-end-of-september-2025/, the basic public IP SKU is going to be deprecated. With this coming depreciation, some VPN gateway SKUs are impacted: Standard High Performance If you are using any of these VPN Gateway SKU you will need to upgrade them to any of …

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Teams – You can now forward chat message

Leave a Comment / Microsoft Teams / By Benoit HAMET / December 1, 2023 / Chat, Microsoft Teams, MS Teams, Teams

You can now forward individual message from a chat. To do, just locate the conversation from the Chat section and locate the message (you received or have sent) to open the ellipsis and choose Forward.

Teams – Send channel meeting to every member

Leave a Comment / Microsoft Teams / By Benoit HAMET / November 27, 2023 / Microsoft Teams, MS Teams, Teams

Channel meetings are often missed as channel members may not be appropriately notified. Good news as you can now send individual meeting request to any channel members. When turning on this option when scheduling meeting, every member will get the invitation in their personal calendar.

Azure – You can now create private subnets (preview)

Leave a Comment / Beta / Preview, Microsoft Azure / By Benoit HAMET / November 17, 2023 / Azure, Azure Virtual Network, Microsoft Azure, Virtual Network, vNet

As you are probably aware, Microsoft is going to turn off default outbound access (read the announcement https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/default-outbound-access-for-vms-in-azure-will-be-retired-transition-to-a-new-method-of-internet-access/). As part of the recommendations to move from default (implicit) outbound access to explicit outbound access, a new network capability has been added called Private subnet. The private subnet will prevent this implicit access by setting the …

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Azure – It is now easier to create subnets for specific purpose

Leave a Comment / Microsoft Azure / By Benoit HAMET / November 17, 2023 / Azure, Azure Virtual Network, Microsoft Azure, Virtual Network, vNet

When working with Azure Virtual Networks, you know that you may need to create subnets for specific purposes – such as Azure Bastion, Azure Firewall or Virtual Network Gateway. These specific subnets have very specific details to be configured, such as the subnet name and/or the IP range. Until now, when creating such subnets you …

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Teams – You can now set a duration for your availability status

Leave a Comment / Microsoft Teams / By Benoit HAMET / November 17, 2023 / Microsoft Teams, MS Teams, Teams

You can now set a duration when setting up your availability status. This option is available for both the ‘classic’ and ‘new’ Teams clients on Windows or web browser; this is not available in Teams mobile. To set the duration, select the Duration option available when clicking on your picture, select the availability status and …

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Intune – You can now manage Windows Subsystem for Linux

Leave a Comment / Endpoint Configuration Manager, Microsoft Intune / By Benoit HAMET / November 16, 2023 / ECM, Endpoint Configuration Manager, Intune, Microsoft Intune, Windows, Windows 10, Windows 11

As you are probably aware, since Windows 10 2004 you can install Subsystem for Linux on Windows to allow use both Windows and Linux at the same time (see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/install/). Unfortunately, until now you could not manage Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) using Intune. Well, good news as now the settings for WSL are available …

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Azure Virtual Desktop – A new application to connect to AVD/Cloud PC (preview)

Leave a Comment / Azure Virtual Desktop, Beta / Preview / By Benoit HAMET / November 16, 2023 / AVD, Azure Virtual Desktop, VDI, Windows Virtual Desktop, WVD

A new client application (UWP) – Windows App – is available from the Microsoft Store allowing end-users to have a single access pane to connect to Azure Virtual Desktop, Windows 365 Cloud PC’s, Dev Box or remote desktop services. The application – in preview – is available for Windows, iOS, MacOS or web browser. Windows …

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Azure – You can now enable hibernation on Azure virtual machines (preview)

Leave a Comment / Beta / Preview, Microsoft Azure / By Benoit HAMET / November 15, 2023 / Azure, Azure Virtual Machine, Azure VM, Microsoft Azure, Virtual Machine

If you use on-premises hypervisor (such as Hyper-V or VMWare) you know you can hibernate (save state) virtual machines. This was something missing for Azure virtual machines. Well, good news as you can now enable hibernation for Azure virtual machines (currently in preview). This new capability will help you saving cost by hibernating unused/under used …

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Windows – The latest version of Windows 11 (23H2) is now available

Leave a Comment / Windows / By Benoit HAMET / November 13, 2023 / Windows, Windows 11, Windows 11 23H2

As you probably already know, a new version of Windows 11 – 23H2 – was coming. Well, good news as this 23H2 version is now available. You can download it from your Visual Studio subscription (https://my.visualstudio.com/), using the Windows Media Creation Tool (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows11) or even by using Intune Feature Update policy. NOTE I’m …

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