2022

Intune – You can now send organization messages to Windows 11 devices

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In 2029, Microsoft introduced a way to send messages to Android and iOS devices using Company Portal (see https://blog.hametbenoit.info/2019/07/24/intune-you-can-send-notification-to-managed-devices/). Well, this functionality has been extended to now allows you to send messages to Windows 11 devices too. With this updated functionality you can do the following: Enable always-on device onboarding messages to help people ramp […]

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OneDrive – OneDrive client will be blocked on VM running unsupported FSLogix

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  Starting January 2023 – expected to be completed by February 2023, OneDrive sync client will be blocked on virtual machine running FSLogix older than 2009 Hot Fix 1.   If after this hard block has been deployed, you are running OneDrive on a virtual machine with an unsupported FSLogix, an error message will be

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Azure – You can now exclude public IP address from DDOS network protection (preview)

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As you may already know, Microsoft Azure provides a Distributed Denial Of Service (DDOS) protection to protect your workloads publicly accessible on Azure (see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ddos-protection/ddos-protection-overview/). However, there is situation where you may need to have a public IP address being excluded from the DDOS protection. Well, you can now exclude public IP address from the

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Azure AD – A new version of Azure AD Connect – 2.1.20 – is now available fixing synchronization issue for employeeLeaveDateTime

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  As you are may be aware, Microsoft has released an updated version of Azure AD Connect to support the employeeLeaveDateTime attribute (see https://t.co/dzZs8LWyHb).   Well, there has been a bug where the new employeeLeaveDateTime attribute was not syncing correctly. If you have been already implemented it using the AAD Connect version 2.1.19, you need

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Exchange Online – You can now manage the message expiration timeout

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As you know, when sending a message using Exchange or Exchange Online, there is a timeout when the system is not able to deliver the message before sender receive the Non Delivery Report (NDR). This timeout is to 24 hours by default and it was not possible to change it; well, until now. You can

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Teams – You can now use sign language in meetings

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Good news for your meeting participants with hearing issue, they can now use sign language. When enabling sign language, an interpreter has to be selected which will then be placed in a central and static location to assist participant. The sign language view is only visible to participant turning it on. The roll out is

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Exchange Online – ReportJunkEmailEnabled is being deprecated

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As you Exchange and Exchange Online have a mailbox policy parameter to allow reporting junk email (ReportJunkEmailEnabled – see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/exchange/set-owamailboxpolicy?view=exchange-ps#-reportjunkemailenabled). In addition of this parameter, you also have the Report message add-in (see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/security/office-365-security/enable-the-report-message-add-in?view=o365-worldwide) which allows to report junk/phishing emails or false positive. Well, starting November 25, 2022 (expected to be completed by December 10,

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Azure MFA – The Azure MFA Server will be deprecated on September 30, 2024

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  For years, Microsoft has been providing a multi-factor authentication server – initially called Phone Factor and since then renamed as Azure MFA Server – to help protecting on-premises workloads.   Over time, Azure AD MFA has been improved while it was getting easier to use Azure AD MFA to protect on-premises workloads – for

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