2023

Azure Virtual Desktop – You can now use URI schemes to connect to AVD (preview)

If you use Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD), you now you have to subscribe to a workspace with the AVD client to be able to access published remote applications and/or desktop. Well, good news as you can now use Uniform Resource Identified (URI) schemes with the client to provide direct “links” to directly launch specified AVD […]

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Teams – You can now translate PowerPoint slides

You probably already know that you can present PowerPoint slides directly in a Teams meeting using the Present in Teams feature Well, good news as your attendees can now translate your slides To do so, open the ellipsis to then choose Translate and select the translated language (about 20 languages are supported)

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Exchange Online – New cmdlet to help investigate transport and DLP rules

Troubleshooting transport or DLP rules is sometime a tricky thing. Exchange administrator can now use a new cmdlet – Test-Message – to investigate why transport rule did not trigger or work as expected. Test-Message –Sender <sender email address – can be external> –Recipients <recipient email address – can be external> –SendReportTo <report recipient email address>

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Teams – You can now set video effects from the Join meeting window

When in a Teams meeting, you already know that you can apply effects – such as background – when you have your camera on. Well, you can now do the same directly from the Join meeting. When enabling our camera when joining the meeting, just click on the Video effects to open the effects settings

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Azure AD – You easily get Azure AD error code meaning

Have you ever try to figure out what the error code from Azure AD is meaning? While Microsoft has been trying to provide meaningful information when the error occurs, sometime it is more complicated and not easy to find answer. Well, good new, you can use this Microsoft site https://login.microsoftonline.com/error – you will notice this

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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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