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Yammer – You can now apply retention policy to Yammer users and communities messages

As you may know, Yammer became the enterprise social network from Microsoft on Office 365 few years ago. While there has been not much evolution on Yammer over the past few years, there is one big news: you can now apply retention policies on Yammer messages, in preview. To apply a retention policy on Yammer, […]

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Windows – Windows Server 2022 is now available in preview

The next version of Windows Server – Windows Server 2022 – is now available in preview for download for MSDN subscribers (https://my.visualstudio.com/) and the evaluation center (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/evaluate-windows-server).   If you have a Software Assurance, you will be entitled to upgrade your server to Windows Server 2022 when available. If you want to know more, you

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Intune – You can now enroll and manage Windows Virtual Desktop (preview)

By now, you already know that Intune/Endpoint Configuration Manager is the Microsoft solution for managing devices (either Windows, iOS or Android) by deploying configuration policies (configuration profiles), deploying applications to the devices or protect your corporate data with application protection policies. You may already know the Windows Virtual Desktop, the Windows 10 multi session solution

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Azure AD – You can now use GPS coordinates for better accuracy on Named Location

As you know, you can configure Named Location on Azure AD for use with Conditional Access either based on public IP address or country. Well, when using the country based location, the real location is not always as accurate as it should. Good news, you can now use GPS coordinates to gain better accuracy when

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OneDrive – You can now have a look at the health of your OneDrive client fleet

As you know, OneDrive client is used to synchronize your content stored on SharePoint Online, OneDrive user’s space or Teams files. You also know that OneDrive client (should) self update itself to keep up with the updated version. Well, the self update capability is not always working (quite rare but still happening) and there was

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Intune – You can now use filters to apply policies, applications or profiles on devices

As you know, Intune (aka Endpoint Configuration Manager) is a device management solution allowing you to apply configuration profiles, policies or deploy application on devices. These assignment are done using device groups – usually dynamic ones to target specific OS, enrollment type or manufacturer. Well, while these dynamic groups are quite useful they may be

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SharePoint Online – You can disable ‘Add shortcut to OneDrive’ (preview)

Few months back, Microsoft has introduced the option to end-user to add a shortcut pointing to a Document library location (including folders) to their OneDrive (see https://t.co/0UWgeayh1y). Well, while this can be quite useful this also introduce some challenges, like if the user has added a shortcut to a location and then forget and try

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Azure AD – You can now use Microsoft Authenticator code matching for authentication (preview)

Another step to a passwordless world. As you know, you can signing with no password using a FIDO key or Windows Hello. Well, you can now also use the one time code from your Microsoft Authenticator app. First thing you need to enable this new feature by logging on your Azure AD portal (https://aad.portal.azure.com/) and

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OneDrive – A 64 bits version is available in preview and scheduled for GA by end of April

As you know, the OneDrive client is used to synchronize SharePoint (both on-premises and online) and OneDrive (both consumer and for business) content to your local device. Well, good news, a 64 bits version of the OneDrive client for Windows is available now in preview with a general availability scheduled for end of April. You

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Azure AD – You can now recover a deleted registered application (preview)

As you know, you can register applications on Azure AD when your application need to have access to data hosted on Azure AD (groups membership, users profile details…). Well, you can now recover a deleted registered application up to 30 days after deletion. This can be useful when an Azure AD administrator and/or application administrator/developer

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