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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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Entra ID – You can now change the source of authority for synced groups (preview)

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With the release of the latest version of Entra ID Connect (2.5.76.0, available for download from the Entra ID portal )Microsoft Entra Connect – Microsoft Entra admin center) (and Entra ID Cloud Sync – 1.1.1370.0), you can now change the source of authority for synchronized groups. With the move to ‘cloud first’ approach, there has

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Teams – You can now restrict bilateral chat with maximum 2 organizations

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Bilateral chat policy is a new type of policy for restricting external group chats in Microsoft Teams to maximum of two organizations. When enabled it will prohibit users from adding external users from more than 2 organizations to external group chats. It applies to all Teams client – for Windows, MacOS, Android and iOS. It

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Windows / Intune – Phone Link has been blocked by your system administrator

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Phone Link, previously known as Your Phone, is a Windows app that allows connecting Android or iOS phones to Windows computers. It enables access and manage various phone features directly from their PC, such as texts, calls, notifications, and photos. Well, recently, I faced the “This feature has been blocked by your system administrator” error

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Intune – New attributes and S/MIME baseline requirements for SCEP certificate profiles

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If you use Intune SCEP to generate and deliver user certificate, you need to review and update accordingly before July 16 your SCEP profile to use new required attributes for the certificate subject name: Given name – G={{GivenName}} Surname – SN={{SurName}} This new requirement is following the enforcement new S/MIME baseline requirements for public certificate

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Teams – You will (finally) be able to share files in external 1:1 or group chats

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This has been a long awaited capability and painful user experience. As you know, it has been impossible to share files in external chats as shared files are saved in user’s OneDrive. Well, starting early July (targeted release tenant – aka preview) and mid July, you will now be able to share files in external

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Intune / Windows – Hotpatching now enabled by default for new Windows quality update policies

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By now, you are probably aware about the hotpatching for Windows 11 and Windows Server (see Hotpatch updates | Microsoft Learn and Hotpatch for Windows Server | Microsoft Learn). As hotpatch has been available for Windows 11 clients for few months already, Microsoft has announced that it will now be enable by default for all

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Entra ID – Known issue (but undocumented) with conditional access

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Now I got your attention, this sounds alarming but in fact it is not and you will see below. As you know Entra ID Conditional Access policies allow you to protect access to your resources linked with Microsoft authentication platform (Entra ID). Well, let dig into the issue. First a bit of context. Requirements Block

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Intune – Changes in supported OS architecture for Win32 apps

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If you are using to manage your client devices fleet, you already know that you can package and deploy custom Windows applications (aka Win32 apps). When deploying this type of application, you have to define the supported Windows architecture (x86 or x64) and version. Well, good news as there has been few changes to configure

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SharePoint Online – New “View and upload” permission for anyone links

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As you know, SharePoint Online allows users to share links to files and folders. SharePoint Online administrators can set the permissions when user creates “Anyone sharing link”. Until now, the permissions available for sharing folders were only “View, Edit and Upload” or “View”. This cause a problem when you want to allow shared users to

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