February 2023

Intune – New URL for Intune administration portal

  Marketing sometime is messing around with tech ; this is specifically true with product name changes.   As you know, few years back Microsoft has decided to rename the Intune and SCCM products to Endpoint Configuration Manager.   Well, few months back (October 2022), Microsoft has decided to change again the name back to […]

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Intune – You can now configure Microsoft Defender update behaviour (preview)

If use Intune, you know you can manage your devices configuration using configuration profiles. As part of these profiles, you can configure Microsoft Defender to enable firewall, control antimalware behaviour… Until now, you were not able to configure Microsoft Defender update behaviour (engine update,platform update and security intelligence update and update channels – beta, current

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Azure AD – You can now enable suspicious activities reporting (preview)

If you have been using the on-premises Azure MFA server (which by the way is going to be fully deprecated – https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/azure-multifactor-authentication-server-will-be-deprecated-30-september-2024/) you already know that end-users were able to report suspicious activities. Well, this was a missing feature on Azure AD MFA which is now becoming available. First you need to enable it (this

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Intune – Get recommendations for your Configuration Manager

As you know you can implement an “hybrid configuration” between SCCM and Intune. Well, you can now enjoy recommendations and insights for your Configuration Manager to improve site health and enrich device management experience. These are tailored to your configuration. To enjoy this new capability, connect to your Intune portal (https://endpoint.microsoft.com/) and access the Tenant

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AVD – New web client experience in preview

If you use Azure Virtual Desktop you know you can access your remote applications and/or remote desktop using either the AVD remote desktop client or the web interface (https://client.wvd.microsoft.com/arm/webclient/). Well, the web interface is getting updated and is now available in preview NOTE the new experience will become ultimately the default one Administrators have nothing

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Outlook Mobile – You can now easily access and manage your contacts

This was a functionality missing on Outlook mobile: easy access and management of your contacts. Well, good news, Outlook Mobile has been updated and is now allowing you to easily access and manage your contacts. You may not notice it at first because this functionality is a little bit hidden. After opening Outlook mobile open

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AVD – A new version of the AVD remote desktop client is available

  If you use Azure Virtual Desktop, you now you can access your remote applications and/or desktop using either a web browser or the remote desktop client.   Well, a new version of the client (1.2.3918) is now available: x64 https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=2139369 x32 https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=2139456 ARM64 https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=2139370 This version is mainly providing fixes and improvements, so now

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Intune – New troubleshooting experience available in preview

If you use Intune to manage your devices (either corporate, BYOD, mobile, full cloud or even in co-management), you will be happy to learn a new troubleshooting experience is now available in preview. This new experience provides: Export, filter, and sort on reports Support for excluded policies and applications Filter the entire experience to a

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Azure Virtual Desktop – You can now enable watermarking (preview)

With increasing use of Azure Virtual Desktop, it is more and more important to ensure sensitive information are protected. A first level of protection has been added with the screen capture protection (see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-desktop/screen-capture-protection/). Today a new screen capture protection capability is being made available in preview: watermarking When enabled, QR code watermarks appear as

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