Author name: Benoit HAMET

Security – You can now configure web content filtering to block access to specific web categories

This was something missing in the security and device management offers from Microsoft since the move to cloud services; there was no integrated solution to manage web content filtering (you could still buy third party solutions). Well, good news you can now manage web content filtering directly from your Office 365 subscription. I think this […]

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Office 365 – Core Visio functionalities are now available on Office 365 at no cost

Microsoft has added core Visio functionalities to any Office 365 commercial plan at no additional cost. The Visio features come as a web application allowing your end-users to create, edit and share Visio diagrams. This does not replace the existing Visio subscription plans which provide more advanced capabilities. The deployment is under way and is

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SharePoint Online – The ‘View in Windows Explorer’ is back

For those who have been working with SharePoint (both on-premises and online) you already know there used to be a ‘View in Explorer’ option to allow you open a document library using Windows Explorer. This option has been unfortunately long gone. Good news, you can now have it back. It is still highly recommended to

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SharePoint Online – New navigation switcher

If you use SharePoint Online, you already know the navigation bar (also known as Quick Launch) is displayed on the left side (as shown below). Well, SharePoint Online now offers the ability to set an horizontal navigation with 2 options: Mega Menu Cascading Menu   The horizontal navigation bar will be displayed on top of

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Intune – You can now have a clear understanding of your Surface devices (preview)

If you use Intune/Endpoint Configuration Manager for managing your client devices and have deployed Surface devices in your environment, you can now have a better understanding of your Surface. A new dashboard has been introduced specifically for Surface management to help you manage your Surface fleet. NOTE if you use the dark mode you will

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Azure – You can now enable Trusted Launch on Azure Virtual Machines (preview)

As you know, recent physical devices come with embedded security feature to help protect the operating system; features like TPM chipset or secure boot. Well, unfortunately until now these features were not available when running virtual machines on Azure. Good news, this now possible to turn on these security feature on Azure Virtual Machine. To

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Azure AD – The Azure AD Connect version 1.x will be retired in August 2022

If you still have on-premises Active Directory you probably are synching your directory with Azure AD using the directory synchronization tool Azure AD Connect. As you may be already aware, there is now 2 versions of Azure AD Connect: 1.x and 2.x The 1.x version is some sort of legacy version allowing customer still running

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Azure – A new troubleshooting tool – VM Inspector – is available in preview

If you work with virtual machines on Azure you already know that sometime things go wrong and you need to troubleshoot what is happening with the resource. While there is already quite few troubleshooting tools available on Azure, you now have a new tool at your disposal called VM Inspector for Azure virtual machines. The

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Teams – You can use high fidelity music

This feature is currently being deployed with an expected completion by January 2022. When the feature is available on your Teams client you will be able to use high fidelity music, meaning you will be able to have a richer sound experience. With this mode Teams will support a 32 kHz rate at 128 kbps

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Teams – You can now manage how chat window is displayed

You can now finally configured how chat window is being displayed in Teams. You can choose by keeping the chat window in the main window (current and default settings) or to open a new window. To configure it, open the Settings menu from your Teams client and select the desired option in the General\Open new

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