Author name: Benoit HAMET

Teams – New Teams administration role – reader

This has been a long awaited new administration role: Teams Reader. If you are managing Microsoft Teams, you already know you have various administration roles (6) allowing you delegating some aspect of Teams administration. Unfortunately, until now there was no way to grant a reader access to your Teams tenant. Well, good news as the […]

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Entra ID Connect – New major version for Entra ID Connect (2.5.3.0)

If you are synching your Active Directory with Entra ID, you know you need to keep up with the Entra ID Connect version to ensure you are supported but also enjoy improvements and/or new features. Well, this is it, a new Entra ID Connect version has been released and this is a major one. First

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Intune / Windows – Bad interaction between ThreatLocker and Windows Hotpatch

Well, another one bit the dust but this time is more related to a third party security product – ThreatLocker (Enterprise Cybersecurity Solutions | ThreatLocker) – wrongly blocking DLL’s patched with Hotpatch. If you have read my previous post (Intune / Windows ARM – Issue with May 2025 Patch Tuesday on ARM devices) about Hotpatch

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Intune / Windows ARM – Issue with May 2025 Patch Tuesday on ARM devices

As you may already know, Intune is offering a Hotpatch for Patch Tuesday to allow installing Windows Updates without having to restart devices (see Intune – Hotpatch is becoming available for client devices). Well, we (at the company I’m working for) found an issue with the May 2025 updates. After getting the May 2025 updates

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Exchange Online – Exchange Web Services (ESW) usage report

As you are probably aware, Microsoft has announced the blocking of Exchange Web Services (EWS) on Exchange Online (see Retirement of Exchange Web Services in Exchange Online | Microsoft Community Hub) in October 2026. While many organization still rely on EWS for some activities, it is quite difficult to identify the use of EWS across

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Azure – You can now export your resources with Terraform (preview)

As you know, you have been able to export your Azure deployment(s) or resource(s) into ARM templates using the Export template option. Well, good news as now you can also use Terraform export First thing first, you need to register the Microsoft.AzureTerraform provider either from the Azure portal, Azure Cli or PowerShell; you can also

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Intune – You can now easily see relationship between applications (Win32)

As you know, when publishing a Win32 application with Intune, you can define dependencies with other applications (Win32 too). However, it can be challenging to identify the dependencies between applications. Well, good news, you can now see those dependencies by access the Relationship Viewer blade of the application. You can use filter too to view

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Exchange – Cloud archive mailbox access will be removed from OWA on-premises mailboxes

This is change will only impact customers in Exchange hybrid configuration and using cloud archive feature. Starting May 12, 2025, access to the cloud archive mailbox for an on-premises mailbox will not longer be possible when accessing using Outlook Web Access (aka OWA, aka Outlook on the Web). Access to the cloud archive will not

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Teams – You can now disable sending messages to chat before and after a meeting

If you use Microsoft Teams, you know that you send messages to a Teams meeting before, during and after the meeting. Well, to help avoiding potential data leak from Teams meeting chats, a new policy is now available to disable ability to send chat messages to Teams meeting before and after this meeting for specific

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