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Teams – Discover Feed in channels

Teams client is now allowing end-user to discover feed in channels they are member of. The idea with this new feature is to simplify providing feeds from the various channels in one place instead of having to browse each individual channels. End-users can improve the feed by providing feedback using the ‘is this useful’ option […]

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Teams – You can now remove activity from your activities feed

You can now clean up your activities feed in Teams by removing activity. You can only remove one activity at a time. Deployment is under way as per the below expected schedule: Target release expected completion by end of January Standard release starting early February and expected to be completed by mid February

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Exchange Online / Teams – You can now chat directly from Outlook on the Web

If you are using Outlook on the Web (aka OWA or Outlook Web Access), you probably noticed when you could start/continue a Teams chat using the chat button available top right of OWA. But it is launching another page to use Teams on the web, making you leaving OWA. Well, good news as now you

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AVD – Deploy the new remote desktop client version to fix an important vulnerability

  If you use Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD), you know you can access your remote session using either the web browser or a client deployed on your device.   Well, an important vulnerability (CVE-2024-21307 – https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2024-21307) has been found and potentially allowing remote execution code.   It is highly recommended to update your AVD client

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Teams – You can now share contact details in chat

When using Teams to chat with someone, you already know you can use the @ symbol to add somebody else to the chat. Well, you now have an additional option available when using the @ symbol in chat: share contact’s details of somebody from your organization.   This new option is being made available to

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Entra ID – Dynamic group rule builder does not include ‘contains’ and ‘notcontains’

If you are using Microsoft Entra ID (aka Azure AD), you probably know that you can create dynamic groups to group users or devices based on rules. Well, until now you could use a ‘contains’ or ‘notcontains’ operator when creating the rule using the rule builder. This is no longer the case. The rule builder

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Azure – New free SQL Managed Instance SKU available in preview

As you probably already know, Azure provides a serverless SQL service called SQL Managed Instance. Well, there is a good news as you can now enjoy a new SKU for free. Before you start jumping around, you need to know the following limitations/restrictions for the free SQL Managed Instance offer: Capacity 1 year 720 vCore

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Teams – The Teams ‘classic’ client will be retired after March 31,2024

  As you are probably aware a new Teams client (aka Teams client 2.0) has been made available earlier in October for both Windows and MacOS devices.   End-users can choose to turn on the new Teams client using the ‘Try the new Teams’ option; or Teams administrators can use a Teams update policy to

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