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Azure – Get ready for Basic SKU retirement for public IP

As announced quite some time ago, Microsoft is retiring the public IP address Basic SKU on March 2025. To prepare for this retirement, you need to upgrade any Basic public IP to the Standard SKU (see Public IP addresses in Azure – Azure Virtual Network | Microsoft Learn for SKU comparison). To help you identify […]

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Teams – New calendar experience

A new calendar experience is coming to Teams. The new calendar experience is providing you the same calendar experience as with Outlook. The deployment has been started for Targeted Release with completion expected by end of November. General availability is expected to start mid-January 2025 with completion date set to end of January. With this

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Intune – Creation of new Administrative Template profiles will no longer be possible

AS you know, Windows devices configuration with Intune is done by using Configuration Profile. For Windows, 2 profile types are available: Settings Catalog Templates Well, you need to prepare for the retirement of the Templates type starting the 2412 service release, scheduled for December. Starting this release, you will not be able to create new

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Teams – Add additional security to your meetings with external participants with Captcha (preview)

As you may know, there has been more and more threats using Microsoft Teams as communication channel. While Microsoft has already had quite few security features to protect you against threats using Teams – such as message preview for unknown sender or more recently blocking ability for sending message from trial tenant (see Teams –

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Azure – Live data disk resize available for virtual machine

When you deploy a new virtual machine, you can define the virtual disks size. From time to time, your initial disk sizing may be too short and you need to increase the disk size to provide more storage space. Until now, before being able to resize the disk you had to shutdown the virtual machine.

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Outlook Mobile – Access to Online Archive is now available on iOS and Android

If you use Exchange (either on-premises or online), you are probably already using the Online Archive (also known as In-Place Archive) which is a ‘separated/hidden’ mailbox storage to help reduce the size of your mailbox (see Manage email storage with online archive mailboxes – Microsoft Support). Well, while access to the Online Archive has been

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Intune – New look for the Company Portal on Windows

If you are using Intune to manage your devices and/or applications, you know that the Company Portal application is playing a big part in deploying applications and registering devices. Well, the Company Portal application for Windows is getting refreshed to provide a better user experience. This new design is supposed to more intuitive by providing

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Office 365 – The Exchange Online administration portal is moving under the cloud.microsoft domain

As announced in 2023, Office 365 services are moving under the cloud.microsoft umbrella domain (Office 365 – New unified domain for Office 365 services (hametbenoit.info)). Since then, quite few services have been already moved under the cloud.microsoft domain (Office 365 – Transitioning to cloud.microsoft domain (hametbenoit.info), Office 365 – Continuous move to cloud.microsoft domain; new

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Windows – Windows 11 24 H2 is now available

The wait is over, the latest release of Windows 11 is now available for download and deployment. With this release, this also marks the end of support for Windows 10. You still have few months anyway as the official end of support for Windows 10 is October 14th, 2025 after this date your Windows 10

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Office 365 – New services being moved under the cloud.microsoft umbrella

As announced in April 2023, Microsoft has been implementing a global umbrella domain (cloud.microsoft) for Office 365 services (Office 365 – New unified domain for Office 365 services (hametbenoit.info)). After moving some services (Office 365 – Transitioning to cloud.microsoft domain (hametbenoit.info) and Office 365 – Continuous move to cloud.microsoft domain; new services moved (hametbenoit.info)), new

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