2023

Entra ID – New version of Azure AD Connect – 2.2.8.0

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  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

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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

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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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SCCM – The latest version – 2309 – of SCCM is available

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The latest version of System Center Configuration Manager is now available. This upgrade will be made available through the in-console update over the next few weeks, but as always if you want to force the detection you can use the usual script available here https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=2099733. Few notes before you start deploying this release: It will

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OneDrive for Business – You can now browse files by meetings or peoples

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It is sometime difficult to find back documents shared/updated during meetings. While Microsoft has introduced meeting insights displayed on the right side of the meeting details or in Teams meeting details, it is still difficult to maintain the collaboration stream after a meeting has ended. Same when collaborating on a 1-to-1 meeting. Well, good news,

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AVD–Ensure your Azure Virtual Desktop client is running version 1.2.4583

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  A CVE (Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures) is currently being exploited impacting Azure Virtual Desktop Client on Windows devices.   The CVE details are available here https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2023-5217.   Ensure your are running the latest version (1.2.4583) of the AVD client: x86 https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=2139144 x64 https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=2139369 ARM64 https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=2139368 If you kept the auto-update capability, the client should

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Teams – Introducing Town Hall and Live Events retirement

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Microsoft is now introducing a new virtual event experience called Town Hall. Town Hall will replace Live Events – retirement is scheduled for September 30, 2024. Town Hall can be used to host and deliver large-scale, internal or external events to create connections across an organization. Town hall will replace Teams Live Events and is

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Teams – The new Teams client is now generally available for Windows and MacOS

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As you probably aware, over the past year a new and improved Teams client (Teams 2.0) has been in development and preview. Well, today marks the general availability of this new client for Windows and MacOS. One of the major improvement is a better and seamless cross-tenant (multi-tenant organization or multi-tenant/multi-account) management. To enjoy the

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Azure – You can now enable trusted launch on existing virtual machines

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As you may already know, you have been able to create virtual machines on Azure with trusted launch capabilities – Secure Boot, vTPM… Until now, you could not enable trusted launch on existing VM’s. After few months in private preview, you can now enable it on existing virtual machines. Off course, existing virtual machines must

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Azure – Default outbound internet access will be retired in September 2025

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As you know when you deploy virtual machines in Azure, these VM’s automatically have internet provided through a default outbound internet access. Because the default outbound connectivity uses a default public address which can change and is not compliant with a Zero trust approach, it has been a recommendation to implement an explicit outbound connectivity

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