January 2024

Azure – Business Continuity Center is available in preview

When you have a large Azure environment, it is sometime not easy to quickly identified if your resources are properly protected to allow business continuity in case of an issue arise. Well, good news as it is now becoming easier to have bird eyes on your business continuity capability on Azure: Business Continuity Center (ABC). […]

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Teams – Discover Feed in channels

Teams client is now allowing end-user to discover feed in channels they are member of. The idea with this new feature is to simplify providing feeds from the various channels in one place instead of having to browse each individual channels. End-users can improve the feed by providing feedback using the ‘is this useful’ option

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Teams – You can now remove activity from your activities feed

You can now clean up your activities feed in Teams by removing activity. You can only remove one activity at a time. Deployment is under way as per the below expected schedule: Target release expected completion by end of January Standard release starting early February and expected to be completed by mid February

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Exchange Online / Teams – You can now chat directly from Outlook on the Web

If you are using Outlook on the Web (aka OWA or Outlook Web Access), you probably noticed when you could start/continue a Teams chat using the chat button available top right of OWA. But it is launching another page to use Teams on the web, making you leaving OWA. Well, good news as now you

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AVD – Deploy the new remote desktop client version to fix an important vulnerability

  If you use Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD), you know you can access your remote session using either the web browser or a client deployed on your device.   Well, an important vulnerability (CVE-2024-21307 – https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2024-21307) has been found and potentially allowing remote execution code.   It is highly recommended to update your AVD client

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Teams – You can now share contact details in chat

When using Teams to chat with someone, you already know you can use the @ symbol to add somebody else to the chat. Well, you now have an additional option available when using the @ symbol in chat: share contact’s details of somebody from your organization.   This new option is being made available to

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Entra ID – Dynamic group rule builder does not include ‘contains’ and ‘notcontains’

If you are using Microsoft Entra ID (aka Azure AD), you probably know that you can create dynamic groups to group users or devices based on rules. Well, until now you could use a ‘contains’ or ‘notcontains’ operator when creating the rule using the rule builder. This is no longer the case. The rule builder

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