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Azure – Migrate your Linux virtual machine Desired State Configuration extensions

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  On September 30, 2023, the Desired State Configuration (DSC) and Azure Automation extensions for Linux virtual machines will be retired.   These extensions are being replaced by the new Azure Automanage (https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/governance/machine-configuration/overview/). You can plan the migration of your existing DSC and Automation extensions for LInux to Azure Automanage by checking this documentation https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/governance/machine-configuration/machine-configuration-dsc-extension-migration/

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Azure – Azure Classic Resource providers are being retired

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  If you use Microsoft Azure, you probably know that resources and management of these resources rely on resource providers.   You may also know that there is 2 different resource providers for some of these resources: Classic Resource Provider – to deploy and manage resources using the classic / legacy method, inherited from the

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Teams–You can now schedule messages

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You can now schedule sending your Teams chat messages at a later time. This new capability to send your chat messages is currently being deployed for preview tenants and scheduled for deployment as per the below schedule: Production: early November, completed by late November GCC: mid-November and completed by late November GCCH: late November and

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Azure AD – You can now define the multifactor authentication strength (preview)

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Azure AD comes with a lot of security features – some recent such as Passwordless authentication, some less recent such as conditional access – helping protecting your identities and workloads access. Well, in the never ending journey to keep secure identities and data, the Conditional Access feature has been updated to allow administrators to request

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Intune – You can now notify end-users when a device has been enrolled (preview)

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Intune/Endpoint Configuration Manager can now enable notification – either by email or push notification – to notify end-user when a device has been enrolled by them. This notification can help reporting enrollment mistakes or during the onboarding process of new users. The enrollment notification is available for all platforms (Windows, iOS or Android) and works

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Teams – You can now use short video in chat

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A new way to interact with your colleagues has been introduced in Teams and is turned on by default: Video Clips. Teams administrators can decide to turn it off by editing their corresponding Messaging Policy from the Teams administration portal (https://admin.teams.microsoft.com/) using the Messaging Policies blade (or Teams PowerShell) Connect-MicrosoftTeams Set-CsTeamsMessagingPolicy -Identity <messaging policy> -AllowVideoMessages

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Azure – You can now review and optimize your Azure Firewall policies with Policy Analytics (preview)

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If you use Azure Firewall you know you have to create (and then maintain) a Firewall Policy; which can become a tricky operation as policy updates may be required several a week or a day. In addition, the team in charge of maintaining such policies may not be aware of updates impacting the protected workloads

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Azure – You will need to upgrade your Basic Public IP by end of September 2025

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If you are using the Basic SKU for public IP addresses in Azure, you will have to upgrade them to use the Standard SKU before September 30th, 2025. Indeed, starting September 30th, 2025 the Basic SKU for Public IP address in Azure will be retired. NOTE as Basic SKU does not offer Availability Zone support,

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