Entra ID – New Entra Connect version is available for download

If you are synching your on-premises Active Directory to Entra ID using Entra Connect, you need to plan to upgrade to the latest version 2.6.1.0 This new version does not provide any new capabilities, rather bugs fixes or improving existing features. This new version: introduces a change in managed certificate lifetime when using the application […]

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Entra – You can now disable registered applications (preview)

This feature is currently in preview with its own support SLA and is not (yet?) available through the Entra ID portal. As you know to deliver SSO authentication, Entra ID uses Enterprise Applications (either from catalog, application proxy or registered ones). Administrators or application owners can now safely pause access to a registered application to

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Teams – You can now customize your recording and transcription notifications

As you know, when using Teams for meetings and authorized users (usually organizers) start recording and/or transcription a notification is displayed to all participants. This notification is enabled and can not be disabled. Well, good news as Teams administrators can now customized the notification for recording and transcription. This can be helpful to provide privacy

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Intune – You can now use a PowerShell script when deploying a Win32 app

As you know, with Intune you can package Windows applications (aka legacy, aka Intune package [Win32]). This package can include PowerShell scripts to perform the installation/uninstallation processes. When deploying such Win32 app, it could have been a bit complex as you had to use the command line to properly run the scripts, including parameters or

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Teams – You can now easily migrate from Slack to Teams (preview)

  If you are a company using both M365 services and Slack, there is good news as it is becoming easier (and cheaper – aka free ich ) to migrate your data from Slack to Microsoft Teams.   For years, many company have been using both M365 services and Slack as Slack has been providing

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Intune – A single view to consolidate administrators tasks

You probably know that with Intune you can get administrators to approve, execute some tasks requiring special/temporary elevation/permission through multi-admin approvals, elevation requests or Defender security tasks. Unfortunately, until now all of these administrative requests were being handle from different Intune blades, making it a bit difficult and/or generating overhead by forcing switching from one

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Entra ID/Azure – You can now report an issue from Entra ID and Azure portals (preview)

You probably have experienced over the past few weeks issues authenticating or accessing Microsoft portals and services. Sometime the service health portal (Azure status or central portal Microsoft service health status) may not be updated accordingly, neither the Twitter feeds for each services. This makes investigating bit more difficult to identify if this is something

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Azure – You can now use Entra ID authentication when connecting to a virtual machine using Bastion

As you probably know now, you can connect to Azure virtual machines using either remote desktop (RDP) or SSH without being obliged to allow such management ports to be opened with network security group using Azure Bastion. Until then you could authenticate to the virtual machine running Windows using either password from a key vault

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Teams – Get ready for a new Teams process

Starting January 2026, Microsoft Teams is going to introduce a new process – ms-teams_modulehost.exe – in addition of the existing ms-teams.exe. This new process – ms-teams_modulehost.exe – is going take charge of the calling capabilities. If you are using any security products (such as Defender App Control, group policy or Threatlocker….) to manage authorized processes

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Entra – You can now have a custom branding for each registered application for external identities (preview)

If you are using Microsoft cloud services, such as Azure and/or M365, you already know that authentication and access control is based on Entra ID. You also then probably know that you can register custom applications to integrate with Entra ID authentication and access control capabilities. Entra ID can also be used for segregating corporate

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