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Forms – Quite a few improvements now available

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Microsoft Forms, the Office 365 survey/quiz capability, just got few improvements. Create Forms using templates You can now create new forms based on ‘professional’ template matching usual business cases (satisfaction survey, volunteer registration, product evaluation or well-being pulse among 20 different template categories). The templates are available straight from the Forms home page (https://forms.office.com/) Create […]

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Azure – You can now deploy ARM64 based virtual machine

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As you are probably aware, there has been for different processor architecture. The main 2 are: Intel x86 (which includes the 64 bits version) PowerPC (ARM) Mostly, the x86 architecture has been used for decades for PC while the ARM architecture was used on Apple computers and now moved to mobile devices (table or smartphone).

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Azure Information Protection – The new Azure Information Protection version – 2.14.90.0 – is now available

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   The new Azure Information Protection (aka AIP, aka AIP Unified Labelling, aka Azure Information Protection Unified Labelling) client is now available.    This version – 2.14.90.0 – is mainly fixing few bugs and does not provide any major improvements or new features. The only ‘big’ change is the switch from Authentication Library (ADAL) to

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Azure – You can now easily enable recommended alerts for virtual machine

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It is important to monitor the health of your workloads. On Azure, this can be done by settings alerts to get notification or execute actions based on conditions. It is now becoming easier to quickly enable a set of recommended alerts for your virtual machine running on Azure. To do so, connect to your Azure

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Azure AD – You can now use automatic assignment with Access Package

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If you have an Azure AD P2 or Enterprise Mobility + Security E5 license, you are probably aware about the Identity Governance capabilities which allows you to control identity and access lifecycle at scale. One of these capabilities is Access Package which allows you to create packages of content (groups, Teams, SharePoint sites) and application

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Azure Virtual Desktop – You can enable single sign-on and password less for AVD (preview)

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These features are currently in preview and is currently available only on Windows 11 22H2 Enterprise Preview (mono and multi session) X64 Gen 2 as session host AVD SSO This can be enable for both Azure AD Joined and Hybrid Joined (Active Directory) virtual machines; it does not support Azure AD Domain Services joined virtual

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Azure – You can now enable Azure Virtual Machine Insights with Azure Monitor (preview)

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If you are running virtual machines in Azure, you are probably already aware that you can have insights about the performance of your virtual machines (see https://blog.hametbenoit.info/2019/07/19/azure-virtual-machines-insights-in-preview/). Well, good new as now you also have the same by using Azure Monitor. One of the advantage of it is you don’t need to have multiple virtual

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Teams – Teams administrators can now customize their Teams Dashboard

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As Teams administrator, you already well know the Dashboard being shown when logging on the Teams administration portal (https://admin.teams.microsoft.com/). Well, you can now customize this Dashboard (same as for the Office 365 administration portal) to only display the information which are relevant to you. To do so, connect to your Teams portal and click on

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Intune – You can now import your ADMX file into Intune (preview)

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If you Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Manager (aka Intune) to manage your devices, you may already know that you can use Administrative templates provided by Microsoft as well as analyse your existing GPO settings to prepare your migration (see https://t.co/tqoPstbND8). Well, the migration path from Group Policy to Intune configuration profile is becoming even easier as

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