August 2024

Teams – You can now block federation with trial tenants

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As you know, Teams administrators can manage how their end-users can communicate with external contacts – either hosted on another Teams tenants, on-premises Skype for Business or customer’s Skype accounts. With this configuration capabilities, Teams administrators can manage if communication with external contacts is allowed/denied and define if it is widely applied (aka not specific […]

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Teams – You can now define the name of the default channel when creating a Teams

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As you know, when you create a new Teams it automatically create a new default channel (aka first channel) called General. Well, that was before as now you can name this default channel during the Teams creation. This option is available on both Teams client and Teams on the web. A side note when naming

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Entra ID – Starting September 1st, 2024 you will have to use M365 administration portal to manage license assignments

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If you have been using the Entra ID portal (https://entra.microsoft.com/) to manage and assign licenses for Microsoft cloud services, you will have to use the M365 administration portal to do so starting September 1st, 2024. Starting this date, the Entra ID Licenses blade will be deprecated. If you are using group based licensing, this will

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Intune – You can now pause, revoke or delete your Cloud PKI

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As you are probably aware, Microsoft has introduced a new Intune service – Cloud PKI – to deliver cloud based certification authority services (see https://blog.hametbenoit.info/2024/03/01/intune-new-cloud-pki-feature/). Well, this service has been updated to allow you to pause, delete or revoke your Cloud PKI. NOTE if you have create the Cloud PKI during the preview or before

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Teams / Outlook – You can now see the attendees time zone when scheduling meetings

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When working with peoples split across different time zone – such as peoples in different countries or on a different time zone within a country, it is not always easy to identify their corresponding time zone and as such their local time. This situation has quite a big impact when scheduling meetings. Well, good news

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Azure – You can now use dashboard on Azure mobile application

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If you are using Microsoft Azure to host and run some workloads on cloud services, you know that you can create and use dashboards when accessing the Azure portal. Well, good news as you can now do the same when using the Azure mobile application (available at the bottom of the Azure mobile app home

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Intune / Azure Virtual Desktop – Manage clipboard redirection for Azure Virtual Desktop with Intune

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If you are using Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD), you may already know you can redirect the clipboard to allow data transfer (plain text, image, rich or HTLM data) between client and Azure Virtual Desktop session. Well, good news as now you can also manage this clipboard redirection using Intune, helping device administrators to ensure data

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