Author name: Benoit HAMET

Outlook Mobile – Access to Online Archive is now available on iOS and Android

If you use Exchange (either on-premises or online), you are probably already using the Online Archive (also known as In-Place Archive) which is a ‘separated/hidden’ mailbox storage to help reduce the size of your mailbox (see Manage email storage with online archive mailboxes – Microsoft Support). Well, while access to the Online Archive has been […]

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Intune – New look for the Company Portal on Windows

If you are using Intune to manage your devices and/or applications, you know that the Company Portal application is playing a big part in deploying applications and registering devices. Well, the Company Portal application for Windows is getting refreshed to provide a better user experience. This new design is supposed to more intuitive by providing

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Office 365 – The Exchange Online administration portal is moving under the cloud.microsoft domain

As announced in 2023, Office 365 services are moving under the cloud.microsoft umbrella domain (Office 365 – New unified domain for Office 365 services (hametbenoit.info)). Since then, quite few services have been already moved under the cloud.microsoft domain (Office 365 – Transitioning to cloud.microsoft domain (hametbenoit.info), Office 365 – Continuous move to cloud.microsoft domain; new

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Windows – Windows 11 24 H2 is now available

The wait is over, the latest release of Windows 11 is now available for download and deployment. With this release, this also marks the end of support for Windows 10. You still have few months anyway as the official end of support for Windows 10 is October 14th, 2025 after this date your Windows 10

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Office 365 – New services being moved under the cloud.microsoft umbrella

As announced in April 2023, Microsoft has been implementing a global umbrella domain (cloud.microsoft) for Office 365 services (Office 365 – New unified domain for Office 365 services (hametbenoit.info)). After moving some services (Office 365 – Transitioning to cloud.microsoft domain (hametbenoit.info) and Office 365 – Continuous move to cloud.microsoft domain; new services moved (hametbenoit.info)), new

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Intune – Starting October 2024, Windows enrollment will automatically deploy quality updates

As you know, with Intune you can control when Windows Updates are being deployed using Update Rings profile. Well, starting October 2024, Windows 11 22H2 or later will start getting automatically any quality updates (aka Patch Tuesday updates) during the Out Of the Box Experience during the enrollment process. This means starting October, the enrollment

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Outlook – The new Outlook client can now work offline

As you may know, Microsoft has been working on a new Outlook client (Getting started with the new Outlook for Windows – Microsoft Support) to allow streamlining new features with Outlook on the Web. One of the most requested (and missing) feature for this new client is (/was) the ability to work offline, the same

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Azure Virtual Desktop – Transitioning from remote desktop client to Windows App

If you use Azure Virtual Desktop, you already know that there are multiple options to connect to your virtual desktop host: Azure Virtual Desktop client Azure Virtual Desktop (preview) application from Microsoft Store Web browser (Remote Desktop Web Client (microsoft.com)) and more recently (since November 2023) the Windows App (see Azure Virtual Desktop – A

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Teams – It is now easier to identify raised hands order

If you are using Teams for hosting your meetings, you already know attendees can raise their hand when they want to contribute without interrupting the conversation. While everybody, and especially presenters, will see hand has been raised, it is difficult for presenters to identify who raised its hand first, second and so on. Well, good

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Office 365 – Continuous move to cloud.microsoft domain; new services moved

As you are probably aware now, Microsoft has been working on consolidating and moving all its Office 365 cloud services under the same domain umbrella cloud.microsoft (as announced in April 2023, see Office 365 – New unified domain for Office 365 services (hametbenoit.info)). There has been already few services moved under this umbrella – such

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