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Teams – Team membership limit is going to be increase to 10 000 members

As you may know, there is some limits which apply to Microsoft Teams, one of them is the number of maximum members in a Team. Well good news, this limit is going to double by the end of May, going from 5 000 members to 10 000 members. This capacity increase will start by end […]

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Azure – You can now use incremental snapshots for your virtual machines

As you may already know, you can create a snapshot of a virtual machine running on Azure when using managed disks. While this is a useful capability, there was a limitation; when creating a snapshot you were creating a full snapshot, meaning the full disk was snapshotted, involving an increase in your storage cost. Well,

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Intune – Remove noncompliant devices

Intune/Endpoint Configuration Manager has been updated to automatically remove non compliant devices. This will obviously remove the devices from Intune/Endpoint Configuration Manager, but also ensure all corporate data/applications are also being removed from the devices. This will be triggered after administrator approval and after the configured compliance days value is reached. This can be accessed

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Intune – New security focused policies available in preview

As you know, Intune/Endpoint Configuration Manager allows you to define policies to managed devices configuration and security settings. Until now, all these configuration settings were available only using the Devices\Configuration Profiles and some of these settings were associated with profile type not always directly related to security. To help you and your security teams to

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Exchange Online – Hybrid Configuration Wizard Could not convert string to DateTimeOffset error

As you are now aware, the Exchange Hybrid Configuration Wizard (HCW) has been recently updated (see https://t.co/p3WYcmBpGD) to reach a new major version(17.xxx) Well, after updating the HCW to the latest version, you may face the following issue when you try to run it to configure or update your Exchange Hybrid Configuration when connecting to

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Exchange – A new major version of the Exchange Hybrid configuration Wizard is now available

As you know by now, you can setup Exchange in hybrid configuration to integrate your Exchange on-premises infrastructure with Exchange Online; this is done using the Hybrid Configuration Wizard (HCW) which is available for download and provide a wide range of configuration options (from lightweight to complete/classic configuration). Well, good new, the HCW just got

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Azure – A new version of the Log Analytics agent is available

Microsoft has released a new version (Windows version 10.20.18029 – Azure Extension version 1.0.18029) has been released. If you have keep the automatic update enabled, it should be automatically updated. You can also download it from the below links: x64 version https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=828603 x86 version https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=828604 It is important to note that this version adds support

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Azure – You can now onboard on-premises workloads to Azure Security Center using Windows Admin Center

By now, you should already know the Azure Security Center (ASC), your one stop shop for security related recommendations and reports to help you improve your Azure security posture. You should also already know the Windows Admin Center, the new browser-based remote administration tools for Windows. Well, good news as both are now integrated as

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Azure – Azure Web Application Firewall can now integrates with Azure CDN

You may already know Azure Web Application Firewall, the solution to protect your web applications against common exploits and vulnerabilities integrated with Azure Application Gateway. Well, Azure WAF has been improved by providing integration with Azure Content Delivery Network (CDN) – the CDN capability for delivering high bandwidth content. With this integration, your CDN endpoints

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Azure – You can now deploy Cloud Shell in new regions

As you may know, Azure Cloud Shell, a browser-accessible shell environment allowing you to run Bash or PowerShell commands/scripts using your browser, has been available for quite some time now. Well, until today, there was only a limited number of region available for creating the Cloud Shell storage account used. Good news, more regions are

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