Author name: Benoit HAMET

Teams – New meeting type available

With Microsoft Teams you can now create new types of meeting: Meeting: classic meeting type – already existed Webinar: the webinar meeting type – already existed Town Hall: for company/team town hall – new Virtual Appointment – new Controlled-Content – new Live event: already existed This allows you to create meeting corresponding to your need […]

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Azure Virtual Desktop – New client version fixing 2 CVE’s

  If you are using Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) you should ensure you are updating your Windows client to the latest version (1.2.4337).   This new version fixes 2 CVE’s: CVE-2023-29362 Remote Desktop Client Remote Code Execution Vulnerability https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2023-29362 CVE-2023-29352 Windows Remote Desktop Security Feature Bypass Vulnerability https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2023-29352 You can download the latest client version

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Office 365 – You can now control Edge configuration from O365 administration portal

As you know you can control Microsoft Edge configuration either using group policies (for Active Directory joined devices) or Intune (for both AD or Azure AD Joined devices). Well, a new option is now available to manage Edge configuration: the Office 365 administration portal. This new capability is currently being deployed for targeted tenant, while

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Azure – New service retirement workbook

When using cloud services, it is sometime difficult to keep up with service evolutions. While discovering new service can be relatively easy, it becomes more difficult to keep up with service retirement. Well, good news as Azure Advisor now provides a service retirement workbook. To use it, connect to your Azure portal (https://portal.azure.com/) to search/access

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Teams – Explicit recording consent for meeting

Teams administrators can now enable the explicit consent when a meeting is being recorded. This replace the simple recording notification. This setting is off by default. To enable it you need to use Teams PowerShell (available here https://www.powershellgallery.com/packages/MicrosoftTeams/). Connect-MicrosoftTeams Set-CsTeamsMeetingPolicy –Identity <meeting policy identity>-ExplicitRecordingConsent “Enabled” When the policy is applied, the Teams meeting window will

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Teams – You can now set your working location

After letting you set working hours and location using Outlook Web Access (aka OWA, aka Outlook on the Web) (see https://t.co/kijyFgJvv6), you can now do the same with Teams client. To do so, click on your picture on the Teams client and click on Set your work location for today available just right of your

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Intune – Administrators can now use policies to set quiet time

Intune administrators can now use policies to set quiet time for iOS/iPadOS and Android to turn off notification from Outlook and Teams. These policies can be used to limit notifications to end-users after work hours. 2 different policies can be implemented: Date Range: automatically mute Microsoft Outlook email and Teams notifications on iOS/iPadOS and Android

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Azure – Geo redundancy is now available in preview for large file shares (preview)

As you know, you can implement geo redundancy for Azure Storage account and Azure File Shares. But there was some limitations such as the size of the file share. Well, good news, as you can now use this redundancy for large file shares and even better it is supported for production, even if this is

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Teams – You can now mark all as read Activity Feed

Users can triage their activity feed more efficiently using the new ‘Mark all as read’ feature. With just one click, users can mark all unread activities as read. This currently being deployed with an expected completion by mid-June. To mark all as read Activity Feed, access the Activity using your Windows Teams client and open

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Teams – You can now block chat access to anonymous participants

As you know, if your Teams administrator has allowed anonymous users to join a meeting, these anonymous participants can use the Teams chat feature to interact with others. Well, this chat access can potentially lead to data exfiltration. To continue allowing anonymous users to join a Teams meeting but lock down the access to the

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