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Teams – You can now easily migrate from Slack to Teams (preview)

  If you are a company using both M365 services and Slack, there is good news as it is becoming easier (and cheaper – aka free ich ) to migrate your data from Slack to Microsoft Teams.   For years, many company have been using both M365 services and Slack as Slack has been providing […]

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Intune – A single view to consolidate administrators tasks

You probably know that with Intune you can get administrators to approve, execute some tasks requiring special/temporary elevation/permission through multi-admin approvals, elevation requests or Defender security tasks. Unfortunately, until now all of these administrative requests were being handle from different Intune blades, making it a bit difficult and/or generating overhead by forcing switching from one

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Entra ID/Azure – You can now report an issue from Entra ID and Azure portals (preview)

You probably have experienced over the past few weeks issues authenticating or accessing Microsoft portals and services. Sometime the service health portal (Azure status or central portal Microsoft service health status) may not be updated accordingly, neither the Twitter feeds for each services. This makes investigating bit more difficult to identify if this is something

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Azure – You can now use Entra ID authentication when connecting to a virtual machine using Bastion

As you probably know now, you can connect to Azure virtual machines using either remote desktop (RDP) or SSH without being obliged to allow such management ports to be opened with network security group using Azure Bastion. Until then you could authenticate to the virtual machine running Windows using either password from a key vault

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Entra – You can now have a custom branding for each registered application for external identities (preview)

If you are using Microsoft cloud services, such as Azure and/or M365, you already know that authentication and access control is based on Entra ID. You also then probably know that you can register custom applications to integrate with Entra ID authentication and access control capabilities. Entra ID can also be used for segregating corporate

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Entra ID – You can now use a username instead of email for external identities (preview)

If you use Microsoft Entra ID, you most likely already know you can also use it for external identities management, and I’m not talking about guest account in your M365 tenant for collaboration. This feature, used to be called B2C (business to consumer) tenant, now called External Identities tenant is used to use a dedicated

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Azure – You can now create tenant level service health alerts (preview)

As part of a correct Azure governance, you need to implement alerts to be alerts in case something wrong arise. As part of such alerts, you need to implement service health alerts too. However, unfortunately you had to set such health service alerts for every single Azure subscription and do it all over again for

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Entra ID – You can now recover deleted cloud security groups (preview)

If you have been using M365, you probably already know that you are able to recover some deleted objects. Until now, deleted group recovery was only possible for M365 Groups (including Teams) but not for security, mail-enabled or synchronized groups. After the recent recovery feature update to recover deleted Conditional Access policies and locations (see

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Intune – You can now run a remediation script on demand and per device basis (preview)

If you are Intune administrator, you should already know (and hopefully using) remediation scripts capability which allows you to run detection and remediation scripts on device to maintain specific configuration which are not available through profiles (see Use Remediations to Detect and Fix Support Issues – Microsoft Intune | Microsoft Learn). Until now, remediation scripts

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Entra ID – Manage inactive users with Identity Lifecycle Workflow (preview)

Identity Governance helps achieving a balance between productivity and security. Identity Lifecycle Workflow as part of Entra ID provides effective identity governance at scale helping managing identity lifecycle by automating accounts management. Unfortunately, there was a gap – which is now filled in preview – related to inactive accounts. These inactive accounts – usually which

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