2025

Intune – A single view to consolidate administrators tasks

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You probably know that with Intune you can get administrators to approve, execute some tasks requiring special/temporary elevation/permission through multi-admin approvals, elevation requests or Defender security tasks. Unfortunately, until now all of these administrative requests were being handle from different Intune blades, making it a bit difficult and/or generating overhead by forcing switching from one […]

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Entra ID/Azure – You can now report an issue from Entra ID and Azure portals (preview)

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You probably have experienced over the past few weeks issues authenticating or accessing Microsoft portals and services. Sometime the service health portal (Azure status or central portal Microsoft service health status) may not be updated accordingly, neither the Twitter feeds for each services. This makes investigating bit more difficult to identify if this is something

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Azure – You can now use Entra ID authentication when connecting to a virtual machine using Bastion

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As you probably know now, you can connect to Azure virtual machines using either remote desktop (RDP) or SSH without being obliged to allow such management ports to be opened with network security group using Azure Bastion. Until then you could authenticate to the virtual machine running Windows using either password from a key vault

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Teams – Get ready for a new Teams process

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Starting January 2026, Microsoft Teams is going to introduce a new process – ms-teams_modulehost.exe – in addition of the existing ms-teams.exe. This new process – ms-teams_modulehost.exe – is going take charge of the calling capabilities. If you are using any security products (such as Defender App Control, group policy or Threatlocker….) to manage authorized processes

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Entra – You can now have a custom branding for each registered application for external identities (preview)

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If you are using Microsoft cloud services, such as Azure and/or M365, you already know that authentication and access control is based on Entra ID. You also then probably know that you can register custom applications to integrate with Entra ID authentication and access control capabilities. Entra ID can also be used for segregating corporate

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Entra ID – You can now use a username instead of email for external identities (preview)

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If you use Microsoft Entra ID, you most likely already know you can also use it for external identities management, and I’m not talking about guest account in your M365 tenant for collaboration. This feature, used to be called B2C (business to consumer) tenant, now called External Identities tenant is used to use a dedicated

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Entra ID – New administration roles for Copilot and agents

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As you know if you use Entra for managing identity and access controls to Microsoft Cloud services, such as Entra ID or M365, you have corresponding Entra ID administration roles to delegate the least privileges permissions to allow users, mostly IT peoples, to execute their tasks. This means when there is no capabilities or features

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Azure – You can now create tenant level service health alerts (preview)

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As part of a correct Azure governance, you need to implement alerts to be alerts in case something wrong arise. As part of such alerts, you need to implement service health alerts too. However, unfortunately you had to set such health service alerts for every single Azure subscription and do it all over again for

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Teams – You can now delegate your security team to manage Teams blocked domain

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If you are using M365 services, you most likely are using Microsoft Teams too. Microsoft Teams allows end-users to communicate/collaborate with external users from other tenant. While external collaboration/access to Teams is by default widely open, this can raise security concern due to raising fake/rogue tenant. Teams administrators can manage communication with external users by

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