Windows – Windows 11 24 H2 is now available

The wait is over, the latest release of Windows 11 is now available for download and deployment. With this release, this also marks the end of support for Windows 10. You still have few months anyway as the official end of support for Windows 10 is October 14th, 2025 after this date your Windows 10 […]

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Office 365 – New services being moved under the cloud.microsoft umbrella

As announced in April 2023, Microsoft has been implementing a global umbrella domain (cloud.microsoft) for Office 365 services (Office 365 – New unified domain for Office 365 services (hametbenoit.info)). After moving some services (Office 365 – Transitioning to cloud.microsoft domain (hametbenoit.info) and Office 365 – Continuous move to cloud.microsoft domain; new services moved (hametbenoit.info)), new

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Intune – Starting October 2024, Windows enrollment will automatically deploy quality updates

As you know, with Intune you can control when Windows Updates are being deployed using Update Rings profile. Well, starting October 2024, Windows 11 22H2 or later will start getting automatically any quality updates (aka Patch Tuesday updates) during the Out Of the Box Experience during the enrollment process. This means starting October, the enrollment

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Outlook – The new Outlook client can now work offline

As you may know, Microsoft has been working on a new Outlook client (Getting started with the new Outlook for Windows – Microsoft Support) to allow streamlining new features with Outlook on the Web. One of the most requested (and missing) feature for this new client is (/was) the ability to work offline, the same

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Azure Virtual Desktop – Transitioning from remote desktop client to Windows App

If you use Azure Virtual Desktop, you already know that there are multiple options to connect to your virtual desktop host: Azure Virtual Desktop client Azure Virtual Desktop (preview) application from Microsoft Store Web browser (Remote Desktop Web Client (microsoft.com)) and more recently (since November 2023) the Windows App (see Azure Virtual Desktop – A

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Teams – It is now easier to identify raised hands order

If you are using Teams for hosting your meetings, you already know attendees can raise their hand when they want to contribute without interrupting the conversation. While everybody, and especially presenters, will see hand has been raised, it is difficult for presenters to identify who raised its hand first, second and so on. Well, good

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Office 365 – Continuous move to cloud.microsoft domain; new services moved

As you are probably aware now, Microsoft has been working on consolidating and moving all its Office 365 cloud services under the same domain umbrella cloud.microsoft (as announced in April 2023, see Office 365 – New unified domain for Office 365 services (hametbenoit.info)). There has been already few services moved under this umbrella – such

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Teams – You can now block federation with trial tenants

As you know, Teams administrators can manage how their end-users can communicate with external contacts – either hosted on another Teams tenants, on-premises Skype for Business or customer’s Skype accounts. With this configuration capabilities, Teams administrators can manage if communication with external contacts is allowed/denied and define if it is widely applied (aka not specific

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Teams – You can now define the name of the default channel when creating a Teams

As you know, when you create a new Teams it automatically create a new default channel (aka first channel) called General. Well, that was before as now you can name this default channel during the Teams creation. This option is available on both Teams client and Teams on the web. A side note when naming

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Entra ID – Starting September 1st, 2024 you will have to use M365 administration portal to manage license assignments

If you have been using the Entra ID portal (https://entra.microsoft.com/) to manage and assign licenses for Microsoft cloud services, you will have to use the M365 administration portal to do so starting September 1st, 2024. Starting this date, the Entra ID Licenses blade will be deprecated. If you are using group based licensing, this will

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