2023

Azure – New free SQL Managed Instance SKU available in preview

As you probably already know, Azure provides a serverless SQL service called SQL Managed Instance. Well, there is a good news as you can now enjoy a new SKU for free. Before you start jumping around, you need to know the following limitations/restrictions for the free SQL Managed Instance offer: Capacity 1 year 720 vCore […]

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Teams – The Teams ‘classic’ client will be retired after March 31,2024

  As you are probably aware a new Teams client (aka Teams client 2.0) has been made available earlier in October for both Windows and MacOS devices.   End-users can choose to turn on the new Teams client using the ‘Try the new Teams’ option; or Teams administrators can use a Teams update policy to

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Azure – You can now move to availability zone for existing virtual machines (preview)

As you may already know, when you create a virtual machine on Azure you can define the availability zone option to configure the virtual machine for availability in case of infrastructure issue within the Azure region where the VM is deployed. Unfortunately, this option was only available during the creation of the virtual machine; once

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Entra ID – New Entra ID Connect version released with major updates

  If you are synching your on-premises Active Directory to Entra ID (aka Azure AD), you must be aware of the release of a new Entra ID Connect (aka Azure AD Connect) version – 2.3.2) with major updates.   One of them is the retirement of the group writeback feature as announced in November 2023

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Entra ID – Get ready for group writeback depreciation

  If you are using Entra ID Connect (aka Azure AD Connect), you may already know about the existence of the group writeback functionality (https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/entra/identity/hybrid/connect/how-to-connect-group-writeback-v2/) which allows you to provision groups on your Active Directory from Entra ID. Well, you need to get ready for the group writeback depreciation starting June 30, 2024. Group writeback

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Teams – You can now create meeting using template from Outlook

As you know, Teams allows you to create various type of meetings – from one to one/group to webinar or Town Hall. You can also create Teams meeting from Outlook but until now the only meeting template from Outlook was the ‘meeting’. If you wanted to create a Town Hall or webinar meeting from Outlook,

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Azure – Get ready for depreciation of some VPN gateway SKUs

  As you are probably already aware, if not check this https://blog.hametbenoit.info/2022/09/28/azure-you-will-need-to-upgrade-your-basic-public-ip-by-end-of-september-2025/, the basic public IP SKU is going to be deprecated.   With this coming depreciation, some VPN gateway SKUs are impacted: Standard High Performance If you are using any of these VPN Gateway SKU you will need to upgrade them to any of

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Azure – You can now create private subnets (preview)

As you are probably aware, Microsoft is going to turn off default outbound access (read the announcement https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/default-outbound-access-for-vms-in-azure-will-be-retired-transition-to-a-new-method-of-internet-access/). As part of the recommendations to move from default (implicit) outbound access to explicit outbound access, a new network capability has been added called Private subnet. The private subnet will prevent this implicit access by setting the

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