With the rise of AI agent, Microsoft is introducing a control in Entra ID tenant to manage who can create agent identity blueprint. Agent identity blueprint is the template and authentication foundation for Agent Identities. While it does not automatically grant access to company data (permissions and consents remain separated), it is important to control
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For the past few months, I have seen multiple group based license assignments failing on different tenants. While there is no official communication (Message Center or other communication channels), the only option has been to open a support request to Microsoft to initiate a “back-end” sync. Once this sync has been proceed, the group based
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Yes, this is that time of year again; the new Windows 11 release is now available for deployment. Windows 11 26H2 is now generally available and ready for deployment. To know more about the Windows 11 26H2 features, you can check the official documentation An IT pro’s guide to Windows 11, version 26H2 – Windows
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The Company Portal for Windows – starting with version 11.2.2037.0 – will be showing “potentially” less applications to end-user when accessing the Apps section of the Company Portal. This is not because they have less applications being made available to them, this is just because Company Portal is showing a curated application set by default.
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Entra ID Global Secure Access (GSA) is a Microsoft cloud based security edge solution aimed to replace VPN for accessing on-premises resources (Private Access), securing internet access through web content filtering (Internet Access) or Microsoft cloud services directly from the endpoint. One component of Entra ID Global Secure Access Internet Access is the Transport Layer
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Microsoft has announced the retirement of Azure Communication Services (ACS) in September 2028. Azure Communication Services has been a cloud based solution provided to integrate applications, web sites or systems with email, text message or real time voice/video chats; it was even able to integrate with marketing solutions to track down email clicks. This service
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When troubleshooting issue(s) with Azure resources, it is usually difficult to identify has changed between a working situation and a failed situation, especially when there is participants. This is why Microsoft has introduced the Change Analysis feature. At this stage, this feature only covers changes made at VPN, network, Firewall and Virtual Machine level. The
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Over the past few weeks I saw lot of posts telling everybody to upgrade their Entra ID Connect instance to at least version 2.5.79.0 to avoid synchronization disruption after September 30. All these posts are forgetting one important point, Microsoft is also deprecating Entra ID Connect (gradually); so instead of recommending to upgrade Entra ID
If you use Entra Global Secure Access (What is Global Secure Access? – Global Secure Access | Microsoft Learn) to protect connectivity to M365, Internet or internal network from your devices, you must be aware that a new version (2.32.294) has been made available for Windows devices (both x64 and ARM). Your administrators can download
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If you use Intune to manage your devices fleet, you may also be using the remote help feature allowing support desk team to remotely connect to devices to help end-users with their issue (Use Remote Help to Assist Users Authenticated by your Organization – Microsoft Intune | Microsoft Learn). There has been one thing with
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