Author name: Benoit HAMET

Outlook – You can now automatically decline conflicting invitations

This functionality is only available on Outlook Web Access (aka OWA, aka Outlook on the Web) and new Windows Outlook client. You can now set a setting to automatically decline conflicting request meetings. From time to time, you may receive request meetings which are conflicting with events already in your calendar; most of the time […]

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Outlook – Outlook client will be switched to the new Outlook

As you know, Microsoft has been working on developing a new modern Outlook client matching the UI from Outlook Web Access and aimed to provide the same features and functionalities. While this new Outlook client has been generally available for some time with option for customers to control whether to use the classic or the

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Exchange Online – New URL for accessing your mailbox with Outlook Web Access

As announced in April 2023 (Office 365 – New unified domain for Office 365 services), Microsoft has been unifying Office 365 services under the cloud.microsoft umbrella domain. Well, the transition process is in full swing and today a new service is transitioning: Exchange Online Outlook Web Access. Outlook Web Access URL is switching from https://outlook.office365.com/

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Intune – Get more detailed inventory from your Windows devices

As you know, with Intune you are able to gather some device hardware information but they were limited. Well, good news as now you can gather more hardware details from your devices. The new profile type is supported on the following Windows version: Windows 11, version 23H2 (22631.2506 or later) with KB5031455 Windows 11, version

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Azure – Get ready for Basic SKU retirement for public IP

As announced quite some time ago, Microsoft is retiring the public IP address Basic SKU on March 2025. To prepare for this retirement, you need to upgrade any Basic public IP to the Standard SKU (see Public IP addresses in Azure – Azure Virtual Network | Microsoft Learn for SKU comparison). To help you identify

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Teams – New calendar experience

A new calendar experience is coming to Teams. The new calendar experience is providing you the same calendar experience as with Outlook. The deployment has been started for Targeted Release with completion expected by end of November. General availability is expected to start mid-January 2025 with completion date set to end of January. With this

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Intune – Creation of new Administrative Template profiles will no longer be possible

AS you know, Windows devices configuration with Intune is done by using Configuration Profile. For Windows, 2 profile types are available: Settings Catalog Templates Well, you need to prepare for the retirement of the Templates type starting the 2412 service release, scheduled for December. Starting this release, you will not be able to create new

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Teams – Add additional security to your meetings with external participants with Captcha (preview)

As you may know, there has been more and more threats using Microsoft Teams as communication channel. While Microsoft has already had quite few security features to protect you against threats using Teams – such as message preview for unknown sender or more recently blocking ability for sending message from trial tenant (see Teams –

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Azure – Live data disk resize available for virtual machine

When you deploy a new virtual machine, you can define the virtual disks size. From time to time, your initial disk sizing may be too short and you need to increase the disk size to provide more storage space. Until now, before being able to resize the disk you had to shutdown the virtual machine.

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Outlook Mobile – Access to Online Archive is now available on iOS and Android

If you use Exchange (either on-premises or online), you are probably already using the Online Archive (also known as In-Place Archive) which is a ‘separated/hidden’ mailbox storage to help reduce the size of your mailbox (see Manage email storage with online archive mailboxes – Microsoft Support). Well, while access to the Online Archive has been

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