Author name: Benoit HAMET

Office 365 – You can now enable Optical Character Recognition (OCR) in Pureview (preview)

As you know, Office 365 comes with capabilities to help you protect your data and ensure compliance – namely Pureview Information Protection and Pureview Data Loss Prevention (DLP). Well, good news as you can now enable Optical Character Recognition (OCR) for both features (in preview). After turning it on, compliance policies like DLP and auto-labeling […]

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Azure–The latest version – 4 – of Azure Backup Server is available

  As you probably know, you can backup your on-premises workloads to Azure using Azure Backup Server (MABS).   Well, the latest version – 4 – of MABS is now available and provides quite a few of enhancements: Support for Windows Server 2022: you can now use Windows Server 2022 to install MABS Support for

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Forms – You can now easily present results

As you know, with Office 365 you have access to Microsoft Forms for creating surveys and gather answers. Until now, the answers were only accessible from the corresponding Forms responses page or by exporting through Excel. It was not easy to present the results as the responses page includes additional details (such as time to

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Intune – You can now delete ‘legacy’ Microsoft Store for Business applications

As you should probably know now, the Microsoft Store for Business (MSfB) is being retired (https://t.co/j8Tcvm1gGO). As you also probably know, it was not possible to delete (legacy) Microsoft Store for Business applications from Intune; you had to do it from the Microsoft Store for Business portal. That said you can not remove all MSfB

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Intune – New partner portals page

If you are managing a fleet of devices with System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM), you may already know that you are able to integrate third party vendors/partners to manage their specific updates, such as drivers or BIOS. This capability was still missing in Intune; except for Microsoft Surface devices, at some point, thanks to the

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Teams – You can now enable spatial audio in meetings

When joining a Teams meeting you now can enable spatial audio to allow a more immersive experience; especially when you are using device supporting spatial audio, like in a meeting room. This new audio experience spatializes the voices of attendees across the visual meeting stage in the Gallery view. This helps make conversations more natural,

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Office 365 – New unified domain for Office 365 services

As you know, each Office 365 services have its own domain, like .sharepoint.com, yammer.com or powerbi.com. This fragmentation can cause some challenges for end-users and administrators. Microsoft is now introducing a new unified domain for all Office 365 services: .cloud.microsoft This unification under the .cloud.microsoft umbrella will simplify user experience by reducing sign-in prompts or

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Office – You can now apply Office policies to everyone using Cloud Policy Service

By now you probably know Cloud Policy Service which allows you to apply policies to your Office applications (https://config.office.com/). Until now, policies would have been applied to specific group(s) of users. Well, good news as now you can apply a policy to all users in your tenant. You can only apply 1 policy with a

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Azure AD / Intune – Local Administrator Password Solution is now generally available

It has been a long awaited capability and has been in preview for quite some time. In preparation for its general availability, Local Administrator Password Solution (LAPS) has been included in Windows – both client and server – thanks to the April updates (see https://t.co/8fpzOY7f7x). Well, good news as LAPS is now generally available –

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Azure Virtual Desktop – New client available from the Microsoft Store (preview)

If you use Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD), you know you can access your resources using either a web browser, the AVD Remote Desktop client on Windows or Mac or mobile on iOS/Android. Well, now you have a new client option through the Microsoft Store. This new client has the same features and capabilities than the

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