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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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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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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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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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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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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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
As you are probably aware, Microsoft has introduced a new Intune service – Cloud PKI – to deliver cloud based certification authority services (see https://blog.hametbenoit.info/2024/03/01/intune-new-cloud-pki-feature/). Well, this service has been updated to allow you to pause, delete or revoke your Cloud PKI. NOTE if you have create the Cloud PKI during the preview or before
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When working with peoples split across different time zone – such as peoples in different countries or on a different time zone within a country, it is not always easy to identify their corresponding time zone and as such their local time. This situation has quite a big impact when scheduling meetings. Well, good news
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If you are using Microsoft Azure to host and run some workloads on cloud services, you know that you can create and use dashboards when accessing the Azure portal. Well, good news as you can now do the same when using the Azure mobile application (available at the bottom of the Azure mobile app home
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