October 2022

Windows 10 – The latest release – 22H2 – of Windows 10 is now available

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  About 3 weeks after releasing Windows 11 22H2, Microsoft has now released the new major update for Windows 10: Windows 10 22H2 or Windows 10 2022 Update.   You can get it from your Visual Studio Subscription (https://my.visualstudio.com/downloads), Download Center (using the Media Creation tool – https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10) or your Volume License portal (https://www.microsoft.com/vlsc), plus …

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Exchange Online – You will be able to recall read messages

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As you probably know, Exchange has always been able to let senders to recall messages (delivered to recipients in the same organization). The recall feature has always been misunderstood by end-users as it was not possible to recall message already read or sent outside the organization. Well, the recall feature is being updated to now …

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Azure – The new Azure PowerShell module (9.0) introduces lot of breaking changes

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  If you are working with Microsoft Azure, you know you can perform activities using either the portal, Azure PowerShell module or Azure Cli.   Well, the new Azure PowerShell module (version 9.0 – released few days ago) introduces a bunch of breaking changes.   You may need to review and update your scripts before …

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Azure – Migrate your Linux virtual machine Desired State Configuration extensions

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  On September 30, 2023, the Desired State Configuration (DSC) and Azure Automation extensions for Linux virtual machines will be retired.   These extensions are being replaced by the new Azure Automanage (https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/governance/machine-configuration/overview/). You can plan the migration of your existing DSC and Automation extensions for LInux to Azure Automanage by checking this documentation https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/governance/machine-configuration/machine-configuration-dsc-extension-migration/

Azure – Azure Classic Resource providers are being retired

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  If you use Microsoft Azure, you probably know that resources and management of these resources rely on resource providers.   You may also know that there is 2 different resource providers for some of these resources: Classic Resource Provider – to deploy and manage resources using the classic / legacy method, inherited from the …

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Teams–You can now schedule messages

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You can now schedule sending your Teams chat messages at a later time. This new capability to send your chat messages is currently being deployed for preview tenants and scheduled for deployment as per the below schedule: Production: early November, completed by late November GCC: mid-November and completed by late November GCCH: late November and …

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Azure AD – You can now define the multifactor authentication strength (preview)

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Azure AD comes with a lot of security features – some recent such as Passwordless authentication, some less recent such as conditional access – helping protecting your identities and workloads access. Well, in the never ending journey to keep secure identities and data, the Conditional Access feature has been updated to allow administrators to request …

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Intune – You can now notify end-users when a device has been enrolled (preview)

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Intune/Endpoint Configuration Manager can now enable notification – either by email or push notification – to notify end-user when a device has been enrolled by them. This notification can help reporting enrollment mistakes or during the onboarding process of new users. The enrollment notification is available for all platforms (Windows, iOS or Android) and works …

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Teams – You can now use short video in chat

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A new way to interact with your colleagues has been introduced in Teams and is turned on by default: Video Clips. Teams administrators can decide to turn it off by editing their corresponding Messaging Policy from the Teams administration portal (https://admin.teams.microsoft.com/) using the Messaging Policies blade (or Teams PowerShell) Connect-MicrosoftTeams Set-CsTeamsMessagingPolicy -Identity <messaging policy> -AllowVideoMessages …

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