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Teams – Administrators can now allow/block communication with Teams Personal

As you may already know, you can use Teams with Personal Accounts (aka Microsoft Account) instead of business accounts to communicate with friends and family members (see https://t.co/ycs5PvlUYO). Well, Teams administrators can now allow (default) or block communication between their business accounts and Teams Personal contact. This settings does not impact the configuration for Skype […]

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Azure – A new root and intermediate certificate authorities for storage account will be used

Leave a Comment / Microsoft Azure / Benoit HAMET / January 10, 2022 / Azure, Azure Storage, Azure Storage Account, Storage, Storage Account, TLS

In February 2022, a new root and intermediate certificate authorities will be used for Azure Storage TLS certificate. The new authority will be DigiCert Global G2 Root. For most of Azure Storage deployment this change will have no impact and will be totally transparent. However if you have explicitly define a list of acceptable CA

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Exchange – Emails stuck in the queue (solved)

2 Comments / Exchange / Benoit HAMET / January 2, 2022 / Exchange, Exchange 2016, Exchange 2019

UPDATE Microsoft has published the solution to fix the issue; please check the source link at the end of this post This is not a good start for Exchange administrators. If you are using Exchange on-premises, your emails may be stuck in the queue with the error Message deferred by categorizer agent This is due

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Azure – You can now use Azure Virtual Machine confidential compute (preview)

Leave a Comment / Beta / Preview, Microsoft Azure / Benoit HAMET / December 21, 2021 / Azure, Azure Virtual Machine, Azure VM, Microsoft Azure, Virtual Machine, VM

If you have a need to run workloads on a virtual machine with high security and confidentiality requirements you can now use a confidential Azure Virtual Machine. This specific capability is provided thanks to AMD processors using SEV-SNP technologies. The confidential compute is available with the DC and EC virtual machine SKUs: DCasv5-series: Confidential VM

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Azure – A new Storage Explorer experience is available (preview)

Leave a Comment / Beta / Preview, Microsoft Azure / Benoit HAMET / December 21, 2021 / Azure, Azure Storage, Azure Storage Account, Azure Storage Explorer, Microsoft Azure, Storage Account, Storage Explorer

If you work with Azure Storage accounts, you may already know the Azure Storage Explorer utility you can install on your client (Windows or MacOS) as well as it equivalent from the Azure portal. Well, the Storage Explorer experience from the portal has changed and is now called Storage browser and provides a simplified storage

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Azure AD – You can now synch your AD with multiple tenants (preview)

1 Comment / Azure Active Directory, Beta / Preview / Benoit HAMET / December 20, 2021 / AAD, AAD Connect, Azure Active Directory, Azure Active Directory Connect, Azure AD, Azure AD Connect, Directory Sync, Directory Synchronization, DirSync

This has been a long awaited capability. As you know until then you were not able to synchronize your Active Directory with multiple Azure AD/Office 365 tenant. Well, this is now possible and supported to do so; meaning you can synchronize your users, groups and contacts from your Active Directory to different tenant (aka duplicating

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Azure – You can now automatically generate new key version (auto-rotation) in Key Vault (preview)

Leave a Comment / Beta / Preview, Microsoft Azure / Benoit HAMET / December 20, 2021 / Azure, Azure Key Vault, Key Vault, Microsoft Azure

As you should already know you can use Azure Key Vault to store secret (either keys, secret or certificates) in a secure way for use by end users and/or automation. Well, until then when you had a key going to expired you had to manually renew/update it. Not anymore, you can now configure auto-rotation to

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Intune – You can now use more granular restrictions for device enrollment

1 Comment / Endpoint Configuration Manager, Microsoft Intune / Benoit HAMET / December 17, 2021 / ECM, Endpoint Configuration Manager, Intune, Microsoft Intune

If you work with Intune/Endpoint Configuration Manager you already know that you can implement certain restrictions for devices enrollment such as the number of devices a user can enroll (up to 15) or the operating system of the device (Android, iOS, macOS or Windows) and specific version (aka the build of the OS). Well, these

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Azure AD – A new version of Azure AD Connect is available

Leave a Comment / Azure Active Directory / Benoit HAMET / December 17, 2021 / AAD, AAD Connect, Azure Active Directory, Azure Active Directory Connect, Azure AD, Azure AD Connect, Directory Sync, Directory Synchronization, DirSync

UPDATE the version 2.0.88 has introduced a bug which can lead to user objects referencing on-premises shared and resource mailboxes to be deleted. A new version 2.0.89 has been released to fix the issue, please check the version before downloading AAD Connect from Microsoft website. If you have an Active Directory and use Microsoft Cloud

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Intune – You can now let users to choose the region during an autopilot enrolment

Leave a Comment / Endpoint Configuration Manager, Microsoft Intune / Benoit HAMET / December 15, 2021 / Autopilot, ECM, Endpoint Configuration Manager, Intune

By know I hope you are already aware about the Intune Autopilot feature which allows you to enroll Windows devices without IT intervention or deploying a golden image. Well, until now when creating (or editing) an Autopilot profile, Intune administrators had to choose how the region will be set during the enrolment, which basically can

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