April 2023

Intune – New partner portals page

If you are managing a fleet of devices with System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM), you may already know that you are able to integrate third party vendors/partners to manage their specific updates, such as drivers or BIOS. This capability was still missing in Intune; except for Microsoft Surface devices, at some point, thanks to the […]

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Teams – You can now enable spatial audio in meetings

When joining a Teams meeting you now can enable spatial audio to allow a more immersive experience; especially when you are using device supporting spatial audio, like in a meeting room. This new audio experience spatializes the voices of attendees across the visual meeting stage in the Gallery view. This helps make conversations more natural,

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Office 365 – New unified domain for Office 365 services

As you know, each Office 365 services have its own domain, like .sharepoint.com, yammer.com or powerbi.com. This fragmentation can cause some challenges for end-users and administrators. Microsoft is now introducing a new unified domain for all Office 365 services: .cloud.microsoft This unification under the .cloud.microsoft umbrella will simplify user experience by reducing sign-in prompts or

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Office – You can now apply Office policies to everyone using Cloud Policy Service

By now you probably know Cloud Policy Service which allows you to apply policies to your Office applications (https://config.office.com/). Until now, policies would have been applied to specific group(s) of users. Well, good news as now you can apply a policy to all users in your tenant. You can only apply 1 policy with a

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Azure AD / Intune – Local Administrator Password Solution is now generally available

It has been a long awaited capability and has been in preview for quite some time. In preparation for its general availability, Local Administrator Password Solution (LAPS) has been included in Windows – both client and server – thanks to the April updates (see https://t.co/8fpzOY7f7x). Well, good news as LAPS is now generally available –

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Azure Virtual Desktop – New client available from the Microsoft Store (preview)

If you use Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD), you know you can access your resources using either a web browser, the AVD Remote Desktop client on Windows or Mac or mobile on iOS/Android. Well, now you have a new client option through the Microsoft Store. This new client has the same features and capabilities than the

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Teams – New video effect: Snapchat lenses

UPDATED added a way to block the use of Snapchat – see end of the post I personally find this should not be on Teams (for Work) but here it is: you can now use Snapchat lenses during a Teams meeting. A collection of 20+ of the most popular Snapchat Lenses are now available. To

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Azure AD – You can now publish multiple internal URLs with a single Application Proxy and validate backend SSL certificate

As you may know, you can publish internal web applications using Azure AD Application Proxy. Until now, when you had to publish multiple different internal URLs, you had to create one Application Proxy for each URL. Well, good news as now you can publish multiple internal web application using only one Application Proxy. The first

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Azure AD – Update your Conditional Access policies if you are using ‘require approved client app’ before March 2026

If you are using the grant control ‘Require approved client app’ in your Conditional Access policies, you need to update and migrate to use the grant control ‘Require application protection policy’ before March 2026. At this date, the control ‘Require approved client app’ will no longer be enforced and will act as if it was

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SCCM – The new 2303 version of System Center Configuration Manager is available

A new version of System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) is now available; as always it is first available for the early ring and then will be available over time to other. To get the early ring, you can use the usual script available here https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=2099733. As part the main updates, support for SQL Server 2022

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