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Entra ID – Manage inactive users with Identity Lifecycle Workflow (preview)

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Identity Governance helps achieving a balance between productivity and security. Identity Lifecycle Workflow as part of Entra ID provides effective identity governance at scale helping managing identity lifecycle by automating accounts management. Unfortunately, there was a gap – which is now filled in preview – related to inactive accounts. These inactive accounts – usually which […]

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Office – You can now restrict new file creation in Office desktop apps to Cloud Locations

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IT Administrators can restrict new file creation in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint on Windows to Cloud Locations only, enhancing security and compliance. This policy, deployable via Group Policy or Cloud Policy Service, limits saving new files to OneDrive, SharePoint, or third-party Clouds, promoting cloud usage and protection. It is important to properly identify the use

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Teams – New security options available in Teams to protect against phishing attacks

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Microsoft is rolling out a new security feature to protect Teams users against phishing attacks by scanning URLs (see Malicious URL protection in Microsoft Teams – Microsoft Teams | Microsoft Learn) and files (see Weaponizable file protection in Microsoft Teams – Microsoft Teams | Microsoft Learn) shared in chats and channels. This is available for

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Entra ID – You can now manage Entra ID applications policies from the portal

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As you know an Entra ID enterprise application is a representation of a cloud-based software application within your Entra ID tenant. It allows to integrate your Entra ID tenant with the software platform, allowing single-sign on and access control capabilities through Entra ID as control plane. Most Entra ID administrators are not usually aware of

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Office 365 – You must configure local network access before end of September for Chromium based browsers

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An important change is coming for Chromium-based browsers (Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge) which will impact offline access to Office 365 services using web browser. You need to act before end of September (before Chromium 141 is being rolled out). The change introduced with Chromium 141 is related to privacy settings which will increase restrictions

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Outlook – Automatically set Outlook settings for both classic and new Outlook client

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As you may already know, Microsoft has been transitioning to a new Outlook client to provide better integration and feature updates with Exchange Online than the classic Outlook provided with M365 applications. Well, starting October, if end-users already have their mailbox configured with the classic Outlook client AND the new Outlook client is installed, the

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Intune – Windows Security Updates can now be installed during autopilot enrollment

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By now you should already know about the autopilot enrolment in Intune (Overview of Windows Autopilot | Microsoft Learn). Well, autopilot enrolment just got a good improvement as it can now install Windows security updates during the enrolment. The configuration to enable or disable the security updates installation during enrollment is managed from the enrollment

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Exchange Online – Cloud managed remote mailboxes

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When the move to the cloud, customers had on-premises footprint with especially messaging systems – such as Exchange Server, which leaded to implement Exchange hybrid configuration with directory synchronization. Years later, there is still need to maintain a low level Exchange on-premises footprint to manage remote mailboxes. Even if Microsoft has made so progress by

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Teams – New authentication requirements for Teams PowerShell

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If you use an Entra ID application to authenticate against Teams when using PowerShell you need to update the permissions granted to the application. Starting September 15th, 2025, authenticating with Entra ID application when using PowerShell will require the following additional permissions: GroupMember.Read.All RoleManagement.Read.Directory To update the permissions, connect to your Entra ID tenant (Microsoft

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Exchange – Transition to dedicated Exchange Hybrid application

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You may have missed the announcement earlier in April (Released: April 2025 Exchange Server Hotfix Updates | Microsoft Community Hub) but Exchange Hybrid configuration is transitioning to a dedicated Exchange Hybrid app in Entra instead of using Exchange Web Services (EWS). It is important to start transitioning now as starting August 19th 2025, Microsoft is

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