When managing a fleet of devices with Intune, from time to time administrators need to force a device synchronization from the portal. Until then, administrators could not really follow the sync process and needed to wait few minutes for the device to report back to Intune. Well, good news as now, with the July release […]
Intune – You can now view live Windows device synchronization status Read More »
If you are managing both Active Directory and Entra ID tenant, you already know you may/must synchronize your Active Directory to Entra ID using one of the synchronization tools: Entra ID Connect or Entra ID Cloud Sync. Earlier last month, I have reminded you to start looking at migrating from Entra ID Connect to Entra
Entra ID – Entra Cloud Sync now allows Active Directory devices synchronization Read More »
When you have to deal with a security breach with account(s) being compromised, the time response to stop thread spreading within your environment is very important. Either you have or not a SOC team, usually the first responders to such activity is the support team. Unfortunately, until now there was no easy way, because of
Entra ID – A new administration role for SOC incident response Read More »
As you know, Entra is providing a self-service password reset (SSPR) to end-users to self reset their password instead of contacting your support team. For years, the registration process for SSPR has been merged with the registration process for multi-factor authentication (MFA) so onboarding was simpler for end-users. Despite this process merge, administrators were still
If you are managing Entra ID tenant(s), you know that it provides SSO authentication. However, from time to time, end-users may still be requested to confirm they want to continue the sign-in process (as shown in the below screenshot). This experience may be more likely occurring in the European Union due to the privacy controls
Entra – Administrators can now control SSO prompts in Windows Read More »
While Microsoft has started the process to deprecate Entra ID Connect Sync and recommend migrating to Entra Cloud Sync, Entra Connect Sync is still supported and being updated. Microsoft has published a new version of the Entra Connect Sync which, in addition of the usual bug fixes, provides these new or improved capabilities: Added support
Entra ID – New Entra ID Connect Sync version (2.6.84.0) is available Read More »
If you use or manage Teams, you probably already have faced the issue that external users may not be able to join a meeting. This situation is always a pain to troubleshoot as it may be due to settings or policies in your tenant or in the external user tenant. Well, good news as the
Teams – New Remote Connectivity Analyzer test for external user joining meetings Read More »
This most is reminder as Microsoft has started the deprecation of Entra Connect Sync the on-premises directory synchronization tool between Active Directory and Entra. Don’t be worry, while there is no official and clear schedule and completion date you still have time to migrate from Entra Connect Sync to Entra Cloud Sync. Microsoft is going
Entra – Reminder to start migrating to Cloud Sync and Exchange writeback Read More »
As AI is becoming more familiar to end-users, it is also becoming more frequent to have bot joining Teams meeting to assist taking notes, tracking important details or even provide a summary at the end of the meeting. Unfortunately this can also create a security risk when sensitive data are discussed. Well, you can now
Teams – You can now control if bot are authorized to join a meeting Read More »
If you use Intune, you likely are deploying applications to devices. You may already be using the Enterprise App Catalog capability (which comes with either Intune Suite or the Enterprise Application Management add-on). In this case you already know that when a new version of the Enterprise App application is made available you need manually
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