Entra ID (aka Azure AD) now allows you to quickly identified privileged administration roles. While it is obvious for some roles (such as Global Administrator), some others may be more subject to your own understanding/interpretation of the role. To help you, Entra ID is now showing a privileged tag, which can also be used as […]
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When deploying application, sometime the installation process may be stuck and you usually define a time out (or installation time) to ensure the installation process will stop and be marked as failed if running longer. Well, you can now do this with Intune when deploying Win32 applications. The maximum installation time (in minutes) is 1440.
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Ensuring your virtual machine and workloads running on it is an important task to maintain your security posture. You probably know that you can manage updates management on Azure using Azure Update Manager (https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/update-center/overview?tabs=azure-vms). Well, Azure Update Manager can now be used to also update your SQL instance running on a virtual machine. To do
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A new personalization capability is coming on SharePoint Online and OneDrive for Business: folder colorization. Yes, you have read correctly, you are being able to set colors (from a set of 16 different colors) on folders (new and existing) on SharePoint Online and OneDrive for Business. Deployment of this feature is currently underway, with a
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You can now implement custom rules supporting rate-limit on your regional Web Application Gateway Firewall. The rate-limit rules detect and block abnormal high levels of traffic, helping you to protect against denial of service attack. To implement such rule, connect to your Azure portal (https://portal.azure.com/) to create a new WAF (web application firewall) policy or
As you may know, with Windows Update you have ‘mandatory’ updates (aka the monthly, cumulative updates) and optional updates, which usually covers some specific Windows components. Deploying the optional updates has been a major pain over the past years as they are optional, which means they were not always deployed unless end-user (when allowed) where
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As you probably know, Microsoft has been developing a new Teams client to provide better performance (more details here https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/new-teams-desktop-admin/). Well, starting September 2023 through December 2023, this new Teams desktop client will be included as part of new and existing Microsoft 365 Apps (Office client). Expected deployment schedule: Business plans September 2023 Enterprise plans
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If you use Azure Virtual Desktop with FSLogix to manage user profile roaming, you know you have to check and update your image every time there is a new FSLogix version. Well, here is a good news for you as since August 8th, 2023: FSLogix is now being automatically updated; in addition, the
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Previously, Intune administrators were able to enforce the use of the private/company store by using the “Only display the private store within the Microsoft Store app” policy. Unfortunately, this did not prevent end-users to directly access the public store using the Windows Package Manager (winget) APIs. Well, good news as now administrators can now fully
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Application Gateway allows you to create customized error pages instead of displaying default ones. Until now, it was allowing to customize only the HTTP 403 (Forbidden) and HTTP 502 (Bad Gateway) error codes. Well, good news as now you can also customize 6 additional error codes: 400 – Bad Request 405 – Method Not Allowed
