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Azure – You can now move to availability zone for existing virtual machines (preview)

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As you may already know, when you create a virtual machine on Azure you can define the availability zone option to configure the virtual machine for availability in case of infrastructure issue within the Azure region where the VM is deployed. Unfortunately, this option was only available during the creation of the virtual machine; once […]

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Entra ID – New Entra ID Connect version released with major updates

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  If you are synching your on-premises Active Directory to Entra ID (aka Azure AD), you must be aware of the release of a new Entra ID Connect (aka Azure AD Connect) version – 2.3.2) with major updates.   One of them is the retirement of the group writeback feature as announced in November 2023

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Entra ID – Get ready for group writeback depreciation

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  If you are using Entra ID Connect (aka Azure AD Connect), you may already know about the existence of the group writeback functionality (https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/entra/identity/hybrid/connect/how-to-connect-group-writeback-v2/) which allows you to provision groups on your Active Directory from Entra ID. Well, you need to get ready for the group writeback depreciation starting June 30, 2024. Group writeback

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Teams – You can now create meeting using template from Outlook

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As you know, Teams allows you to create various type of meetings – from one to one/group to webinar or Town Hall. You can also create Teams meeting from Outlook but until now the only meeting template from Outlook was the ‘meeting’. If you wanted to create a Town Hall or webinar meeting from Outlook,

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Azure – Get ready for depreciation of some VPN gateway SKUs

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  As you are probably already aware, if not check this https://blog.hametbenoit.info/2022/09/28/azure-you-will-need-to-upgrade-your-basic-public-ip-by-end-of-september-2025/, the basic public IP SKU is going to be deprecated.   With this coming depreciation, some VPN gateway SKUs are impacted: Standard High Performance If you are using any of these VPN Gateway SKU you will need to upgrade them to any of

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Azure – You can now create private subnets (preview)

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As you are probably aware, Microsoft is going to turn off default outbound access (read the announcement https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/default-outbound-access-for-vms-in-azure-will-be-retired-transition-to-a-new-method-of-internet-access/). As part of the recommendations to move from default (implicit) outbound access to explicit outbound access, a new network capability has been added called Private subnet. The private subnet will prevent this implicit access by setting the

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Azure – It is now easier to create subnets for specific purpose

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When working with Azure Virtual Networks, you know that you may need to create subnets for specific purposes – such as Azure Bastion, Azure Firewall or Virtual Network Gateway. These specific subnets have very specific details to be configured, such as the subnet name and/or the IP range. Until now, when creating such subnets you

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Teams – You can now set a duration for your availability status

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You can now set a duration when setting up your availability status. This option is available for both the ‘classic’ and ‘new’ Teams clients on Windows or web browser; this is not available in Teams mobile. To set the duration, select the Duration option available when clicking on your picture, select the availability status and

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