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Office 365 – You can now report service incident from the Service Health dashboard

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The Office 365 administration portal (admin preview) has been updated to include a way to report service incident to Microsoft. If you are impacted by a service issue not yet reported you can submit an incident report. This feature is currently being deployed to targeted tenant (aka preview. To start using it, logon to your

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SCCM – You can now deploy Windows 10 Preview updates with SCCM/WSUS

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If you are using System Center Configuration Manager Current Branch (SCCM Current Branch) to manage and deploy Windows Update updates, you can now deploy Windows 10 Insider updates too with SCCM Software Update. you must be running SCCM Current Branch 1810 or later to be able to configure it. To enable this capability you just

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Intune – You can now send notification to a specific device

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After introducing a capability to send custom notification to a group of devices (see https://t.co/m2rBPUjV0S), Intune has been updated to allow you to send such custom notification to a specific device. The principles are the same as for sending to a group of devices. To send a custom notification to a specific device, logon to

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Exchange – You can now add shared mailbox on Outlook Mobile

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This has been a very long awaited capability; adding shared mailbox on Outlook mobile without having to logon as the shared mailbox (aka using active account). To add a shared mailbox, open your Outlook Mobile application and access the Settings to add an account, you then will be able to choose Shared Mailbox If you

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Skype for Business Online – External access settings being retired from the administration portal

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As you may already know, it has been announced that Skype for Business Online will be retired from Office 365 on July 31, 2021. With this move, some administration capabilities are already being retired. The ‘External Access’ setting for Skype for Business in the Office 365 Administration portal, available in the ‘Settings\Services & add-ins\Skype for

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Office 365 – You can now set a time zone when opening a support request

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This is a feature which should have been there since the beginning of Office 365; you can now define a time zone, as well as a secondary language, when you open a support request on Office 365. This does not seem to be a huge improvement but talk to people working in a multinational with

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Teams – Voicemail settings are now available in Teams client

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While Microsoft Teams is scheduled to take over Skype for Business Online, Teams client is closing slowly but surely features gap with SfB. A new settings to let end-users manage their voicemail has appear in Teams client. To manage your voicemail settings – including your greeting message – open the Teams client and open the

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Azure – Get your recommendations by email as soon as they are available (preview)

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As you know, Azure has a feature called Azure Advisor to help you getting the most and securing your Azure resources. Well, Azure Advisor has been updated to provide you a notification feature to send an email alert as soon as you have a new recommendation. To start using it, logon to your Azure portal

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Security – You can now backup your Microsoft Authenticator application

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It has been a long awaited feature for the Microsoft Authenticator application: being able to backup your multi factor accounts and recover them. Well, the wait is now over as you can now backup your MFA accounts and off course recover them when reusing the same account. It works for both personal and work profiles

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Azure – You can apply a policy to ensure the Log Analytics agent is being deployed on your virtual machine (Preview)

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As you may know Azure provides a quite powerful monitoring solution for your Azure environment as well your on-premises one called Azure Log Analytics. This Log Analytics capability is also used by Azure Security Center to centralize security-related logs. The use of Azure Log Analytics requires to have a local agent (Log Analytics Agent, also

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