May 2023

Teams – Explicit recording consent for meeting

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Teams administrators can now enable the explicit consent when a meeting is being recorded. This replace the simple recording notification. This setting is off by default. To enable it you need to use Teams PowerShell (available here https://www.powershellgallery.com/packages/MicrosoftTeams/). Connect-MicrosoftTeams Set-CsTeamsMeetingPolicy –Identity <meeting policy identity>-ExplicitRecordingConsent “Enabled” When the policy is applied, the Teams meeting window will […]

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Teams – You can now set your working location

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After letting you set working hours and location using Outlook Web Access (aka OWA, aka Outlook on the Web) (see https://t.co/kijyFgJvv6), you can now do the same with Teams client. To do so, click on your picture on the Teams client and click on Set your work location for today available just right of your

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Intune – Administrators can now use policies to set quiet time

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Intune administrators can now use policies to set quiet time for iOS/iPadOS and Android to turn off notification from Outlook and Teams. These policies can be used to limit notifications to end-users after work hours. 2 different policies can be implemented: Date Range: automatically mute Microsoft Outlook email and Teams notifications on iOS/iPadOS and Android

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Azure – Geo redundancy is now available in preview for large file shares (preview)

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As you know, you can implement geo redundancy for Azure Storage account and Azure File Shares. But there was some limitations such as the size of the file share. Well, good news, as you can now use this redundancy for large file shares and even better it is supported for production, even if this is

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Teams – You can now mark all as read Activity Feed

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Users can triage their activity feed more efficiently using the new ‘Mark all as read’ feature. With just one click, users can mark all unread activities as read. This currently being deployed with an expected completion by mid-June. To mark all as read Activity Feed, access the Activity using your Windows Teams client and open

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Teams – You can now block chat access to anonymous participants

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As you know, if your Teams administrator has allowed anonymous users to join a meeting, these anonymous participants can use the Teams chat feature to interact with others. Well, this chat access can potentially lead to data exfiltration. To continue allowing anonymous users to join a Teams meeting but lock down the access to the

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Teams – Attendees to webinar are now receiving reminders

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As you probably know, you can host webinar using Teams. Well, Teams webinars are now sending reminders to participants about 1 hour before the event starts. In addition of the introduction of reminders, if you have Teams Premium licenses organizers will be able to edit the content of the reminder email as well as the

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Azure – You can now use custom error page in App Service (preview)

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App Service now supports to define custom error page for 403, 502 and 503 error codes. This capability is available for both Linux and Windows workloads when using a Premium SKU. NOTE this is not available for ASE v2 SKU Before setting up your custom error page, you need to create the new HTML page

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Exchange – You can now define work hours locations

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With hybrid work increasing, you can now define your work hours location using Outlook Web Access (aka Outlook on the Web). To do so, connect to your mailbox using OWA (https://outlook.office.com/) to access the Outlook Settings from the gear menu Then access the Calendar\Work hours and location blade You can add up to 3 different

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Teams – Premium License enforcement in July 2023

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  Few months ago, Microsoft has introduced the new Teams Premium License and announced some features (existing and new) will require this new Premium License.   Since April 2023, such license is required for using Live Translated Caption but this was not enforced.   Well, in July 2023, this license requirement will be enforced. This

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