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Azure – You can now export your resources with Terraform (preview)

As you know, you have been able to export your Azure deployment(s) or resource(s) into ARM templates using the Export template option. Well, good news as now you can also use Terraform export First thing first, you need to register the Microsoft.AzureTerraform provider either from the Azure portal, Azure Cli or PowerShell; you can also […]

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Azure Virtual Desktop – You can now assign multiple personal desktops to user (preview)

If you use Azure Virtual Desktop as virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) solution, you already know you have 2 different pool types: Personal: used for dedicated use by assigned user to provide a consistent and personalized environment (single VM per assigned users) Pooled: allow multiple users to share a set of users When you use the

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Entra ID – Edit multiple users at once (preview)

When managing identity systems – such as Active Directory or Entra ID, from time to time, administrators must edit multiple users at once. Until then (and this is still the case for Active Directory, when you had to do such thing on Entra ID, administrators had to use a script. Well, good news as you

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Intune – Hotpatch is becoming available for client devices

You may have been aware of a major overhaul for Windows Update to allow deploying Windows Updates without having to restart (see Hotpatch for Windows Server | Microsoft Learn). This ‘hotpatch’ capability has been introduced first for Windows Server (2022, 2025) running in Azure and then started to be extended to Windows Server running on-premises

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

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 – You can now use dashboard on Azure mobile application

If you are using Microsoft Azure to host and run some workloads on cloud services, you know that you can create and use dashboards when accessing the Azure portal. Well, good news as you can now do the same when using the Azure mobile application (available at the bottom of the Azure mobile app home

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Azure – Deploy Azure Bastion as private (preview)

By now I hope you know about Azure Bastion, the Azure solution allowing you to connect to your Azure virtual machine though the web browser rather than opening management ports or deploying a jump box virtual machine. Lately, Microsoft has introduced a free version of Azure Bastion (Bastion Developer – see Azure – New low

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Intune – No more hardware hash requirement for Autopilot (preview)

Yes, you have been reading right, no more hardware hash pain for registering new device in Autopilot. If you are managing an Intune environment and using Autopilot, you already know that every new device must be registered in Autopilot using the hardware hash; which is painful if you can’t get this information from the manufacturer.

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Entra ID – You can now use Lifecycle workflows to manage synced users lifecycle (preview)

As you know, identity management is an important part of controlling access to resources and applications by end-users, especially when working with cloud services. While Entra ID has quite few features to help in managing identities, these features are sometime limited to cloud-based only account; they can’t help in managing synced/on-premises identities, as as you

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Azure – You can now use agentless crash consistent backup (preview)

Agentless multi-disk crash consistent backups for Azure VM backup allows taking VM backups without installing additional software like the VM agent or snapshot extension in your VM. If the workload running on the virtual machine is performance sensitive and can recover from crash consistent backups, this feature can help reduce the quiesce time during backup.

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