Author name: Benoit HAMET

SharePoint Online – You can now share in ‘Review’ mode (apply to Word documents only)

As you know, when you share a document stored on SharePoint Online, the default mode is in Edit which can lead to unintended edit of the document. An update is being deployed (expected to be completed by end of May) which will allow you to set the default mode to Review, limiting editing actions to […]

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Azure AD – You can now manage the Azure AD Administrative Units using the portal

You may already know this Azure AD feature, in preview for quite some time already, called Administrative Units (AUs). This feature allows you to create a container to store Azure resources which then can be used to delegate administrative tasks, during this preview period this can contain only users and groups and is only manageable

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Exchange Online – You can now get Desktop notification from Outlook Web Access

If you use Outlook Web Access (aka OWA, aka Outlook on the Web) and a modern browser (Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge) you can now enable Desktop Notification to get notified when emails arrive while you are no longer browsing your mailbox but your browser is still running. To turn it on, logon to your mailbox

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Intune – Intune Diagnostic is now available for Android

After being available for iOS, this is now also available for Android devices: Intune Diagnostic. This new diagnostic capability will help your support team troubleshooting Intune/Company Portal issues on Android devices. This capability is available if you are running Company Portal version 5.0.4737.0 or later. While this should be automatically updated, you can check the

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Azure – Virtual machine Scale Sets now support automatic update for custom images

As you know with Azure Virtual Machine Scale Sets you can create and group identical virtual machines to deliver load balanced and highly available service; the number of virtual machine instances is automatically increased or decreased to match the demand. You may also know that the operating system of each virtual machine part of a

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Teams – You can now set your background in Teams meeting

After allowing you to blur the background when joining a Teams meeting, you can now set your own background (well quite not fully yours). You can now choose from a pre defined set of backgrounds – being able to set your own is coming soon. To set your background just hit the Options (…) button

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Azure – You can now recover virtual machine created with custom image

As you may already know, it was possible to restore a virtual machine by creating a new VM, restoring as disk or replacing existing disks. Now the option to recover the virtual machine by replacing existing disks is now also supported for virtual machine created using custom images (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-machines/windows/capture-image-resource) This option is only available for

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Teams – Number of simultaneous participants shown in video is increasing

This has been an important customers request and Microsoft Teams is going to increase the number of simultaneous video participants in Teams meeting from 4 to 9. For more than 9 participants, those with video on will be prioritized to be shown on the stage. Participants with audio will be shown below the meeting stage.

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Skype for Business – A new diagnostic tool is available for Skype for Business

If you are running Skype for Business (either 2015 or 2019) on-premises you already know that sometime troubleshooting issues is a complicated tasks. Well, Microsoft has released a new diagnostic/troubleshooting tool for Skype for Business running full on-premises or in hybrid configuration with Skype for Business Online/Teams. This On-Premise Diagnostics (OPD) for Skype for Business

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OneDrive – You can now access the file version history from OneDrive client and Windows Explorer

The OneDrive client has been updated and now provides access to the file version history from both the OneDrive client and Windows Explorer (for files synced with OneDrive).     You need run the OneDrive client version 20.052.0311.0006 or later to enjoy this new capability.

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