May 2024

Azure Virtual Desktop – You can now enable hibernation

As you are probably aware, since November 2023 you can enable hibernation on Azure virtual machines (see Azure – You can now enable hibernation on Azure virtual machines (preview)). Well, good news, as this feature is now also available for Azure Virtual Desktop. With the hibernation enabled, you will be able to keep your session […]

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Exchange Online Protection – You can now get end-user to receive automated feedback result

If you use Exchange Online, you know you can be protected from spam and phishing emails using Exchange Online Protection (aka Defender for Office 365). In addition, you can also get your end-users to report spam or phishing emails which may have gone through the protection filters using the Report Message add-in in Outlook (client,

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Intune – End-user self-service BitLocker recovery key

If you manage Windows/macOS devices fleet you already know that it is recommended to enable disk encryption on these devices (either through GPO or Intune) with recovery information saved in Entra ID. Then you also already know that administrators (global administrator, cloud device administrator, helpdesk administrator, Intune administrator or security administrator or reader) can read

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Azure – You can now use ephemeral Cloud Shell

If you use Microsoft Azure cloud services, you probably are already aware about the Cloud Shell functionality which allows you to run PowerShell or Bash scripts/commands directly from the web browser. This functionality requires to setup a storage account to store your scripts and user sessions. Well good news as now you can also use

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Entra ID – New name and options for Conditional Access Location setting

As this is something you may not review and check frequently, you need to know there have been few changes related to the Location setting in Entra ID Conditional Access. The first one, quite minor if you think about it, is the Location setting has been renamed to Network. The second change is an additional

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Intune – You can now get superseded Windows application (Win32) uninstalled

If you are managing a Microsoft Intune tenant, you know you can create Intune package for Win32 apps (exe installer, custom scripts…). For sometime already, this Win32 app feature has been supporting the configuration of supersedence to help ensuring always the latest version is made available and deployed. That said, there is situation when such

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Outlook – New Outlook client and OWA now offer ‘in-person’ option when setting up meeting

For the past few years, we have been moving to a more ‘online’ world. That has introduced some challenges when setting up meeting. Well, the new Outlook client (not the Win32 one) and Outlook Web Access now offer an option to mark a meeting as ‘in-person event’. This new option also allows attendees to respond

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SharePoint Online – Improved versioning capabilities

As you may already know, SharePoint Online (and OneDrive for Business too) offers a document versioning capability, which is enable by default, to help you keep track of document updates and – optionally – recovers from user errors or malware recovery. This versioning capability is included in your SharePoint storage consumption, while most of the

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