Azure AD – You can now set an Azure AD Application Proxy app in maintenance mode

Leave a Comment / Azure Active Directory / By / January 24, 2023 / , , , , , ,

If you use Microsoft Cloud services, you know that identity and access control is managed by Azure AD. Azure AD which comes with a feature called Azure AD Application Proxy to allow you publishing internal applications without configuring your firewall and can integrate with Azure AD for authentication and access control (see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/app-proxy/application-proxy/ to know …

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Azure – You can now do virtual machine in-place upgrade

Leave a Comment / Microsoft Azure / By / January 23, 2023 / , , , ,

As Windows administrator, you know the importance of keeping up with Windows server versions to stay supported and receive updates. To do so, you usually have 2 options to upgrade your Windows server version: in-place upgrade deploy a new virtual machine running the targeted version and then migrate your workloads and data on this new …

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Teams – Window sharing is now generally available in Azure Virtual Desktop

Leave a Comment / Azure Virtual Desktop, Microsoft Teams / By / January 20, 2023 / , , , , , ,

  The Microsoft Teams product group has been working hard to deliver seamless user experience in Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) for Teams users to provide similar experience on both physical and virtualized (aka AVD) session.   The capability to share your windows in Azure Virtual Desktop session while using Teams is now generally available. That …

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Forms – You can now add background music to your Forms

Leave a Comment / Office 365 / By / January 20, 2023 / ,

By now, you probably already know Microsoft Forms, the form./quiz feature from Office 365. Since its introduction, Forms has evolved to provide more capabilities, including more customization options. Well, you can now also add background music to entertain users when filling up your form. To do so, just create or edit a Forms (https://forms.office.com/) and …

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Intune – Enable self-service password reset on Windows login screen new option

Leave a Comment / Azure Active Directory, Endpoint Configuration Manager, Microsoft Intune / By / January 16, 2023 / , , , , , , ,

As you are now probably aware, Intune administrators were able to enable self-service password reset (SSPR) on the Windows login screen for quite some time This enablement required to create a custom Intune device configuration profile, as documented here https://blog.hametbenoit.info/2017/11/06/azure-ad-allow-end-users-to-reset-password-or-pin-from-the-login-screen/. Well, as Intune has been evolving quite quickly and some time you may miss updates, …

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Teams / Intune – Administrators can now control Teams notifications with more granularity

Leave a Comment / Endpoint Configuration Manager, Microsoft Intune, Microsoft Teams / By / January 12, 2023 / , , , , , , ,

If you use Intune / Endpoint Configuration Manager, you are already aware that you can implement applications protection and configuration policies to secure your organizational data on mobile devices. As a mobile device user using Microsoft Teams, you also know you can get activity notifications from Teams (chat, channels…). Until now, Intune administrators had no …

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Teams – It is now easier to add somebody to a group chat

Leave a Comment / Microsoft Teams / By / January 10, 2023 / , ,

From time to time, when you are a chat with other participants you may realize that somebody is missing the conversation Well, while it has been possible to add participants to an existing chat, it was not so easy and involved few actions Good news, it is now easier to do such thing by using …

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Office 365 – You can now export your Office policy configurations

Leave a Comment / Office, Office 365 / By / January 9, 2023 / , , , , , , ,

If you use Office 365, you are probably aware of the Cloud Policy Service for Office (aka Office App Configuration) portal (https://config.office.com/) you use to create your custom Office installation XML file and Office configuration (similar to the GPO). Well, you can now export your policy configuration in CSV to help you identify and review …

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Office – You can now use domain name to restrict access to Office documents (preview)

Leave a Comment / Beta / Preview, Office, Office 365, Security / By / December 20, 2022 / ,

As you probably know, you can restrict access and permission to Office document using Information Protection. Well, until now, you had to individually add each and every users using their email address. However there is situation where you can add each users because you may not know or the shared document needs to be protected …

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Azure AD – You can now restrict tenant creation to administrators (preview)

Leave a Comment / Azure Active Directory, Beta / Preview / By / December 20, 2022 / , ,

As you probably know, users may have the ability to create new tenant using the Manage tenant option from the Azure AD (https://aad.portal.azure.com/) or Entra () portal   When creating a new tenant, the user becomes automatically a global administrator for this new tenant and this new tenant does not inherit your organization settings or …

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