October 2023

Azure – New low cost Azure Bastion SKU – Bastion Developer (preview)

If you are running virtual machines on Azure, you may already know that you can use Azure Bastion to allow accessing the VM using remote desktop or SSH without opening these management ports over the internet. Well, good news as if you need to learn about Bastion or use it in a development/test environment, you […]

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Teams – You can now set Out of Office using Teams mobile

If you use Teams, you probably already know that you can set your Out of Office using the Teams client (see https://blog.hametbenoit.info/2021/05/13/teams-you-can-now-enable-your-out-of-office-from-teams/). Unfortunately, this option was not available on Teams mobile. Well, good news as it is now available also on the mobile application. To do so, open the status menu to select Out of

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Intune – FSLogix settings are now available in Settings Catalog

If you use Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD), you already know you can use FSLogix to deliver consistent user profiles experience. Until know, to manage FSLogix settings and configuration you had to either import corresponding ADMX files or use registry keys. Good news as now you use the Intune device configuration Settings Catalog to manage FSLogix

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Azure – You can now use Privileged Identity Management from the Azure mobile application

You are probably aware of the Azure mobile application which allows you to do some management tasks – especially being alerted when some issue occurs – when on the go. Android https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.microsoft.azure&pli=1 Apple https://apps.apple.com/us/app/microsoft-azure/id1219013620?ls=1 You are also probably aware about the Privileged Identity Management (PIM) feature available with Entra ID/Azure AD P2 license, allowing you

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Outlook Web Access – Meeting participants time-zone notification

It is not always easy to schedule meeting with people on different time zone as you can’t easily identify their local time or even know if they are on a different time zone. Well, good news as now you will get notified when meeting participants are on a different time zone and then using the

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Teams – You can now join third-party meetings from Teams

You probably already been in situation where you have been invited on a meeting organized using a third-party solution – such as Zoom or Google Meet. Until now, you could not join such meetings from the Teams client. Well good news as you can now join them directly from the Teams client by using the

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Azure Virtual Desktop – You can now use OneDrive with a RemoteApp (preview)

If you use Azure Virtual Desktop to provide desktop or applications virtualization to your end-users, you probably know that you can not use OneDrive outside of a remote desktop session – meaning with a RemoteApp. Well, good news as you can now use OneDrive while using a RemoteApp. To do so you first need to

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Entra ID – New version of Azure AD Connect – 2.2.8.0

  A new Azure AD Connect version – 2.2.8.0 – is now available https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=47594.   This new version introduces 2 functional changes: The attribute onPremisesObjectIdentifier has been added to the default sync rules. This attribute is required by Microsoft Entra Cloud Sync’s Group Provisioning to AD feature. Minimum .NET runtime requirement has been increased to

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Azure – You can now set the OS disk size when creating the VM from the portal

As you may know, the best practice/recommendation when deploying resources in Azure is to use an automated solution, such as DevOps. That said, there is always situation when you need to deploy the resource using the Azure portal. Well, good news as now you can set the size of the OS drive when deploying new

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Teams – New dedicated management space for meetings

This new Teams app is being rolling out only to the new Teams client. With this new app, end-users a central management place for their meetings. It helps finding all upcoming meetings and their related content – like files or recordings. To access the Meet app, open the view more apps (the ellipsis) and search

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