Author name: Benoit HAMET

Intune / Windows – Hotpatching now enabled by default for new Windows quality update policies

By now, you are probably aware about the hotpatching for Windows 11 and Windows Server (see Hotpatch updates | Microsoft Learn and Hotpatch for Windows Server | Microsoft Learn). As hotpatch has been available for Windows 11 clients for few months already, Microsoft has announced that it will now be enable by default for all […]

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Entra ID – Known issue (but undocumented) with conditional access

Now I got your attention, this sounds alarming but in fact it is not and you will see below. As you know Entra ID Conditional Access policies allow you to protect access to your resources linked with Microsoft authentication platform (Entra ID). Well, let dig into the issue. First a bit of context. Requirements Block

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Intune – Changes in supported OS architecture for Win32 apps

If you are using to manage your client devices fleet, you already know that you can package and deploy custom Windows applications (aka Win32 apps). When deploying this type of application, you have to define the supported Windows architecture (x86 or x64) and version. Well, good news as there has been few changes to configure

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SharePoint Online – New “View and upload” permission for anyone links

As you know, SharePoint Online allows users to share links to files and folders. SharePoint Online administrators can set the permissions when user creates “Anyone sharing link”. Until now, the permissions available for sharing folders were only “View, Edit and Upload” or “View”. This cause a problem when you want to allow shared users to

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Entra ID – New version of Entra ID Private Network Connector

  As you are probably already aware, Entra ID (formerly Azure Active Directory) offers a functionality to publish internal web applications to integrate with Entra authentication and no need to open your firewall known as Entra ID Private Network Connector (formerly Azure AD App Proxy).   Well, there has been a new version release –

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Teams – New Teams administration role – reader

This has been a long awaited new administration role: Teams Reader. If you are managing Microsoft Teams, you already know you have various administration roles (6) allowing you delegating some aspect of Teams administration. Unfortunately, until now there was no way to grant a reader access to your Teams tenant. Well, good news as the

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Entra ID Connect – New major version for Entra ID Connect (2.5.3.0)

If you are synching your Active Directory with Entra ID, you know you need to keep up with the Entra ID Connect version to ensure you are supported but also enjoy improvements and/or new features. Well, this is it, a new Entra ID Connect version has been released and this is a major one. First

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Intune / Windows – Bad interaction between ThreatLocker and Windows Hotpatch

Well, another one bit the dust but this time is more related to a third party security product – ThreatLocker (Enterprise Cybersecurity Solutions | ThreatLocker) – wrongly blocking DLL’s patched with Hotpatch. If you have read my previous post (Intune / Windows ARM – Issue with May 2025 Patch Tuesday on ARM devices) about Hotpatch

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Intune / Windows ARM – Issue with May 2025 Patch Tuesday on ARM devices

As you may already know, Intune is offering a Hotpatch for Patch Tuesday to allow installing Windows Updates without having to restart devices (see Intune – Hotpatch is becoming available for client devices). Well, we (at the company I’m working for) found an issue with the May 2025 updates. After getting the May 2025 updates

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