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Intune – Creation of new Administrative Template profiles will no longer be possible

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AS you know, Windows devices configuration with Intune is done by using Configuration Profile. For Windows, 2 profile types are available: Settings Catalog Templates Well, you need to prepare for the retirement of the Templates type starting the 2412 service release, scheduled for December. Starting this release, you will not be able to create new […]

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Teams – Add additional security to your meetings with external participants with Captcha (preview)

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As you may know, there has been more and more threats using Microsoft Teams as communication channel. While Microsoft has already had quite few security features to protect you against threats using Teams – such as message preview for unknown sender or more recently blocking ability for sending message from trial tenant (see Teams –

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Azure – Live data disk resize available for virtual machine

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When you deploy a new virtual machine, you can define the virtual disks size. From time to time, your initial disk sizing may be too short and you need to increase the disk size to provide more storage space. Until now, before being able to resize the disk you had to shutdown the virtual machine.

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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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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