Author name: Benoit HAMET

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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Azure – Deploy Azure Bastion as private (preview)

By now I hope you know about Azure Bastion, the Azure solution allowing you to connect to your Azure virtual machine though the web browser rather than opening management ports or deploying a jump box virtual machine. Lately, Microsoft has introduced a free version of Azure Bastion (Bastion Developer – see Azure – New low

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Intune – No more hardware hash requirement for Autopilot (preview)

Yes, you have been reading right, no more hardware hash pain for registering new device in Autopilot. If you are managing an Intune environment and using Autopilot, you already know that every new device must be registered in Autopilot using the hardware hash; which is painful if you can’t get this information from the manufacturer.

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Entra ID – You can now use Lifecycle workflows to manage synced users lifecycle (preview)

As you know, identity management is an important part of controlling access to resources and applications by end-users, especially when working with cloud services. While Entra ID has quite few features to help in managing identities, these features are sometime limited to cloud-based only account; they can’t help in managing synced/on-premises identities, as as you

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