Entra – Identity governance lifecycle workflow for guest accounts (preview)

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As know, Entra ID is the backbone for managing identity and access to cloud services and applications – either Microsoft or integrated third party ones. Regarding identity objects, you are dealing with 2 different user types: member guest While member accounts are usually relatively well managed, the guest ones are most often the blind spot

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Entra ID – Self Service Password Reset now allowing password change without knowing it after secure sign-in

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As you are likely aware, Entra ID allows end-users to change their own password when they forgot it using Self Service Password Reset (SSPR) from the My Sign Ins portal (My Sign-Ins | Security Info | Microsoft.com). The problem is this requires the end users to know their current password, which with the introduction in

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Teams – Automatically block bots joining meetings

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With the increase use of intelligence artificial (IA) and bots, it more than likely you will get meeting participants joining with external bots to keep track of the meeting details (recording, transcript….). While Microsoft has introduced few months a meeting policy setting (Teams – You can now control if bot are authorized to join a

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Entra ID – You can now protect object from manual permanent deletion (preview)

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AS you likely know, Entra comes with some protection level in regards of objects deletion – started with users and groups, and more recently devices (Entra – You can now recover deleted device objects (preview)) or even a backup/restore capability (Entra ID – You can now backup and recover your Entra tenant (preview)). After the

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Intune – You can now better control Windows Quality updates deployment timing

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Before we start, you need to keep in mind there is a difference between the monthly updates (known as Patch Tuesday) and quality updates. Monthly updates apply to both Windows OS and additional security updates (think .Net Framework) and made available on the second Tuesday of the month Non security (including preview) updates (quality updates)

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Intune – Standard user can now change IP configuration on Windows

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If you have been managing Windows devices, you already know that changing IP configuration requires local administrator elevation. When troubleshooting network connectivity issue, it has always been a pain to either give a temporary local administrator permission to end-user or deal with the UAC elevation prompt to enter a local administrator credentials (including Microsoft Entra

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Outlook – Join meeting button may disappear if the meeting link is not using HTTPS

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For quite some time, Outlook clients have been showing a Join button to join a meeting, especially when using Teams for the meeting but also for other meeting providers, such as Zoom. While most of meeting providers integrating with Outlook should have been using HTTPS connection, there may still be some still not using HTTPS

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Office 365 – Update repair in inventory from the Apps admin center

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Starting mid-October 2026 until end of November (preview between mid-October to end of October, GA from mid-November to end of November), a new capability is being added on the Apps admin center (Microsoft 365 Apps admin center) – the portal to manage Office apps installation, configuration and monitoring. The new capability will allow a remote

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Entra – New version available for Global Secure Access client for Windows devices

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While this has been announced that the Global Secure Access client for Windows devices will be automatically updated through Windows Update (see Entra ID – A new version of the Global Secure Access is available) which will be available starting November 2026, there has been a new GSA client version (2.34.222) for Windows. This means

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Windows – Retirement of Companion Apps

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For quite some time, Windows always came with what is called “companion apps” (Calendar, People…) which were also automatically pinned to the taskbar (unless device is being managed). Well, these companion apps are being retired in December 16th, 2026. This means they no longer be updated and will also stop functioning. While most devices in

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