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Teams – You can now delegate your security team to manage Teams blocked domain

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If you are using M365 services, you most likely are using Microsoft Teams too. Microsoft Teams allows end-users to communicate/collaborate with external users from other tenant. While external collaboration/access to Teams is by default widely open, this can raise security concern due to raising fake/rogue tenant. Teams administrators can manage communication with external users by […]

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Entra ID – You can now recover deleted cloud security groups (preview)

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If you have been using M365, you probably already know that you are able to recover some deleted objects. Until now, deleted group recovery was only possible for M365 Groups (including Teams) but not for security, mail-enabled or synchronized groups. After the recent recovery feature update to recover deleted Conditional Access policies and locations (see

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Entra ID – Temporary access pass and MFA (re)registration

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If you are using Microsoft cloud solutions (M365 or Azure), you already know that authentication and access control to these services rely on Entra ID (formerly Azure Active Directory). Then you know Entra ID administrators can control authentication methods supported for authentication against the tenant (from MFA to QR code or OATH tokens). One authentication

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Intune – Collect device hardware information

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If you use Microsoft Intune to manage your devices fleet, you already know that it can gather some device hardware details. Well, good news as now you can get more detailed hardware information from your Windows devices, covering more details about CPU, battery, hard drives, BIOS version or SIM information. To enable this capability you

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Intune – Remove preinstalled Windows Store apps

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As IT administrator, you may want/need to remove preinstalled/default Windows Store apps (such as Solitaire, Feedback hub or Clipchamp). Until now, you had either to use script or deploy these applications from Intune in uninstall mode. Unfortunately, this does not block end-user to install again these applications (even if they eventually will be uninstalled again).

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Intune – You can now run a remediation script on demand and per device basis (preview)

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If you are Intune administrator, you should already know (and hopefully using) remediation scripts capability which allows you to run detection and remediation scripts on device to maintain specific configuration which are not available through profiles (see Use Remediations to Detect and Fix Support Issues – Microsoft Intune | Microsoft Learn). Until now, remediation scripts

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Exchange / AD – Heads up Exchange and Active Directory administrators, AD extension issue

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Well, even if it has been generally available for months, seems Windows Server 2025 is in fact still not yet ready for production use. After multiple core services issues, from DHCP services to authentication with Windows Hello, we now have a new issue which is impacting another system, in this case Exchange server on-premises. As

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Entra ID – You can now list and recover deleted conditional access policies (updated)

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NOTE this post was originally posted in October 2nd and has now been updated with instructions from the Entra ID portal As you know, Entra ID Conditional Access policies play an important role in securing to your resources integrated with Entra ID for authentication (such as M365, Azure or third-party cloud apps). If you have

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Windows – Windows 11 25H2 is now available

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Windows 11 25H2 is now available from Intune, My Visual Studio (aka MSDN), SCCM Software Update/WSUS but apparently not yet through Windows Update.   You can learn about known issues from there Windows 11, version 25H2 known issues and notifications | Microsoft Learn As part of the improvements: Support for Wi-Fi 7 for enterprise connectivity

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