Author name: Benoit HAMET

Teams – It is now easier to share a specific window during a meeting

As you know, when you are on a Teams meeting you can share your screen or a specific application window using the Share button Well, this is now even easier to share a specific application window by just moving around the application icon in the task bar and you will see all opened related window […]

Teams – It is now easier to share a specific window during a meeting Read More »

Intune – You can now manage Google Chrome with Intune

Those who work or have been working with on-premises environments and Active Directory already know they can import the ADMX templates for Google Chrome and  manage Chrome using group policies (GPO). Well, for those which are full-cloud managed (Intune/Endpoint Configuration Manager) or hybrid mode with client device configuration being managed by Intune there was no

Intune – You can now manage Google Chrome with Intune Read More »

Azure – You can now run the SQL best practices assessment for SQL virtual machine from the portal

As you know, Azure SQL is available either as PaaS or IaaS. Well, you can now enable and run SQL best practices assessment on SQL server running on virtual machine. To do so, you need: to have deployed an Azure SQL virtual machine the SQL virtual machine must be with the SQL Server IaaS extension

Azure – You can now run the SQL best practices assessment for SQL virtual machine from the portal Read More »

Azure – You can now have a cost estimation for Microsoft Defender for Cloud based on your resources

As you may already know Microsoft Defender for Cloud (formerly known as Azure Security Center and Azure Defender) provides advanced threat detection capabilities across your cloud workloads. However this is always difficult to estimate upfront the cost associated with Defender for Cloud. Well good news, you can now deploy a workbook developed by the Azure

Azure – You can now have a cost estimation for Microsoft Defender for Cloud based on your resources Read More »

Azure – Maintenance window is available for SQL Database and SQL Managed Instance

As you know the beauty of the PaaS is you don’t have anymore to manage the underlying infrastructure (patching OS for example) as this the responsibility of the cloud provider. Well, while this is very interesting you lose a little bit of control, especially when it comes to maintenance. Well, you can now manage the

Azure – Maintenance window is available for SQL Database and SQL Managed Instance Read More »

Teams – Administrators can now have the list of Teams a user has joined

Teams administrators can now have the list of Teams a user has joined from the Teams administration portal. To enjoy this new capability, connect to your Teams administration portal (https://admin.teams.microsoft.com/) and access the Users\Manage users blade to select the user you want to have the list of Teams. You can get the list by accessing

Teams – Administrators can now have the list of Teams a user has joined Read More »

Azure Virtual Desktop/Intune – You can now auto-configure the AVD Remote Desktop Client

As you know, Azure Virtual Desktop (aka AVD, aka Windows Virtual Desktop) is the Microsoft solution to securely provide virtualized remote desktop virtualized on Azure. To connect to an AVD session you need to use the remote desktop client (available here https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-desktop/user-documentation/connect-windows-7-10/?WT.mc_id=M365-MVP-7836) and then get your end-users to subscribe to a workspace. Well, good news

Azure Virtual Desktop/Intune – You can now auto-configure the AVD Remote Desktop Client Read More »

Teams – You can now mute notifications when you are in a meeting or on a call

A new feature is just on his way for the Teams client (rolling out expected to be completed by mid-March). You can now mute notifications when you are in a meeting; helping you to no longer be distracted during the meeting. There is no policy available to allow administrators to manage it. To turn off

Teams – You can now mute notifications when you are in a meeting or on a call Read More »

Azure AD – New workbook to help you analyze authentication prompts

As you know Azure AD provides you ways to review and troubleshoot authentication prompts but this is sometime difficult as you may have to deal with multiple reports and/or logs. Well a new workbook called Authentication prompts analysis is now available. It aggregates all logs related to authentication prompts for users and applications, giving you

Azure AD – New workbook to help you analyze authentication prompts Read More »

SharePoint Online – You can now reports on data access (sharing links and sensitivity labels) (preview)

This feature is currently in deployment – available for targeted tenant or rolling out starting mid-March up to mid-April for standard release. These reports are going to help security and compliance officers to identify if there is any gap, issue or misconfiguration on how files are shared or on applying sensitivity labels. To access these

SharePoint Online – You can now reports on data access (sharing links and sensitivity labels) (preview) Read More »