Entra ID – New Entra ID Private Connector version

As you probably already know, you can integrate your on-premise web applications with Entra to leverage Entra authentication and access control capabilities without having to open inbound ports on your perimeter firewall. This is called Entra ID Private Connector, formerly know as Application Proxy. Well, a new version (1.5.4892.0) has been made available for download […]

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Intune – You can now inventory registry keys

If you are managing client devices with Intune, you already know that you can inventory these devices to know their physical details, from battery type or level to video controllers. This inventory is done by implementing the Properties catalog configuration profile type. Well, this profile has been updated to allow you to also inventory registry

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Intune – You can now view live Windows device synchronization status

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

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Entra ID – Entra Cloud Sync now allows Active Directory devices synchronization

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

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Entra ID – A new administration role for SOC incident response

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

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Entra – Self-Service Password Reset (SSPR) will require registered authentication methods from September 7th

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

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Entra – Administrators can now control SSO prompts in Windows

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

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Entra ID – New Entra ID Connect Sync version (2.6.84.0) is available

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

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Teams – New Remote Connectivity Analyzer test for external user joining meetings

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

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Entra – Reminder to start migrating to Cloud Sync and Exchange writeback

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

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