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Intune – Get ready for support ending for Microsoft Store for Business and Education applications

Leave a Comment / Endpoint Configuration Manager, Microsoft Intune / By Benoit HAMET / March 16, 2023 March 16, 2023 / ECM, Endpoint Configuration Manager, Intune, Microsoft Intune

As it has been announced in July 2021 (https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/windows-it-pro-blog/evolving-the-microsoft-store-for-business-and-education/ba-p/2569423/), the Microsoft Store for Business and Education has been evolving. Well, now it is time for you to get ready for end of support of applications from the Store in Intune. On April 30, 2023, Intune will disconnect Microsoft Store for Business services. Microsoft …

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Azure AD – You can now use Token Protection with Conditional Access (preview)

Leave a Comment / Azure Active Directory, Beta / Preview / By Benoit HAMET / March 15, 2023 March 15, 2023 / AAD, AAD Conditional Access, Azure Active Directory, Azure Active Directory Conditional Access, Azure AD, Azure AD Conditional Access, Conditional Access

You know that you can use Azure AD Conditional Access to secure access to your resource by enforcing MFA, device compliance… Well, Azure AD Conditional Access has been updated to allow you use Token Protection. Token Protection attempts to reduce attacks using token theft by ensuring a token is usable only from the intended device. …

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Azure AD – New recommendations for applications (preview)

Leave a Comment / Azure Active Directory, Beta / Preview / By Benoit HAMET / March 15, 2023 March 15, 2023 / AAD, Azure Active Directory, Azure AD

About a year ago, Microsoft has introduced Azure AD recommendations to help you improve your Azure AD security posture (see https://t.co/92sR2y0bR4). Well, these recommendations have been updated to introduce recommendations for Azure AD applications. While the first recommendations apply to all Azure AD license, these new recommendations for applications require Azure AD P2. The available …

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Azure Virtual Desktop – You can now use URI schemes to connect to AVD (preview)

Leave a Comment / Azure Virtual Desktop, Beta / Preview, Microsoft Azure / By Benoit HAMET / March 14, 2023 March 14, 2023 / AVD, Azure Virtual Desktop, Windows Virtual Desktop, WVD

If you use Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD), you now you have to subscribe to a workspace with the AVD client to be able to access published remote applications and/or desktop. Well, good news as you can now use Uniform Resource Identified (URI) schemes with the client to provide direct “links” to directly launch specified AVD …

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Teams – You can now translate PowerPoint slides

Leave a Comment / Microsoft Teams / By Benoit HAMET / March 9, 2023 March 9, 2023 / Microsoft Teams, MS Teams, Teams

You probably already know that you can present PowerPoint slides directly in a Teams meeting using the Present in Teams feature Well, good news as your attendees can now translate your slides To do so, open the ellipsis to then choose Translate and select the translated language (about 20 languages are supported)

Exchange Online – New cmdlet to help investigate transport and DLP rules

Leave a Comment / Exchange, Office 365 / By Benoit HAMET / March 8, 2023 March 8, 2023 / Exchange, Exchange Online, ExO

Troubleshooting transport or DLP rules is sometime a tricky thing. Exchange administrator can now use a new cmdlet – Test-Message – to investigate why transport rule did not trigger or work as expected. Test-Message –Sender <sender email address – can be external> –Recipients <recipient email address – can be external> –SendReportTo <report recipient email address> …

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Teams – You can now mention everyone in a chat

Leave a Comment / Microsoft Teams / By Benoit HAMET / March 7, 2023 March 7, 2023 / Microsoft Teams, MS Teams, Teams

If you use Teams, you already know that you can mention people(s) in a chat. Well, this mention capability has now been extended by allowing you to mention everyone in a group chat. To mention everyone, just use the obvious @everyone

Azure – Azure Automation RunAs account will be retired on September 2023

Leave a Comment / Microsoft Azure / By Benoit HAMET / March 3, 2023 March 3, 2023 / Automation, Automation Account, Azure, Azure Automation, Azure Automation Account, Microsoft Azure

If you use Azure Automation account to automate activities, actions or process, you know that it (used to) use RunAs account for authentication. Well, on September 30, 2023, the RunAs capability will be retired and replaced by Managed Identity (know more about managed identity https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/managed-identities-azure-resources/overview/). If you don’t act before September 30, your runbooks will …

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Teams – You can now set video effects from the Join meeting window

Leave a Comment / Microsoft Teams / By Benoit HAMET / March 2, 2023 March 2, 2023 / Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Teams Meeting, MS Teams, Teams, Teams Meeting

When in a Teams meeting, you already know that you can apply effects – such as background – when you have your camera on. Well, you can now do the same directly from the Join meeting. When enabling our camera when joining the meeting, just click on the Video effects to open the effects settings …

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Azure AD – You easily get Azure AD error code meaning

Leave a Comment / Azure Active Directory / By Benoit HAMET / March 1, 2023 March 1, 2023 / AAD, Azure Active Directory, Azure AD

Have you ever try to figure out what the error code from Azure AD is meaning? While Microsoft has been trying to provide meaningful information when the error occurs, sometime it is more complicated and not easy to find answer. Well, good new, you can use this Microsoft site https://login.microsoftonline.com/error – you will notice this …

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