You know that when you join a Teams meeting you can turn on your camera. Well, there is time you may not want to turn on the camera, in this case when you join the meeting a generic ‘picture’ with your initials is displayed. To make things better, you can now use an avatar instead
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For those using Intune to manage their devices, a new experience is coming and currently in preview. Use the preview to familiarize yourself with the new experience. Connect to your Intune portal (https://intune.microsoft.com/) to access the Devices\Overview blade There you will get a purple banner letting you know about the new experience in preview and
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A new authentication method called Authenticator Lite is available in preview. Authenticator Lite allows end-users to perform multifactor authentication without the Microsoft Authenticator app. Some end-users may be reluctant to install corporate applications on their mobile device or in some country/region there is a legal requirement for employers to provide corporate mobile phone if corporate
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As you know, Teams meeting recordings are saved either in the corresponding SharePoint site or organizer’s OneDrive. These recordings are made available few minutes after the meeting recording ended and now also have an expiration time (default 120 days). Well, you can now block the download of these recordings. Users will have access to the
You know that you can use Azure AD Conditional Access to secure access to your resource by enforcing MFA, device compliance… Well, Azure AD Conditional Access has been updated to allow you use Token Protection. Token Protection attempts to reduce attacks using token theft by ensuring a token is usable only from the intended device.
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About a year ago, Microsoft has introduced Azure AD recommendations to help you improve your Azure AD security posture (see https://t.co/92sR2y0bR4). Well, these recommendations have been updated to introduce recommendations for Azure AD applications. While the first recommendations apply to all Azure AD license, these new recommendations for applications require Azure AD P2. The available
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If you use Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD), you now you have to subscribe to a workspace with the AVD client to be able to access published remote applications and/or desktop. Well, good news as you can now use Uniform Resource Identified (URI) schemes with the client to provide direct “links” to directly launch specified AVD
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If use Intune, you know you can manage your devices configuration using configuration profiles. As part of these profiles, you can configure Microsoft Defender to enable firewall, control antimalware behaviour… Until now, you were not able to configure Microsoft Defender update behaviour (engine update,platform update and security intelligence update and update channels – beta, current
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If you have been using the on-premises Azure MFA server (which by the way is going to be fully deprecated – https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/azure-multifactor-authentication-server-will-be-deprecated-30-september-2024/) you already know that end-users were able to report suspicious activities. Well, this was a missing feature on Azure AD MFA which is now becoming available. First you need to enable it (this
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If you use Azure Virtual Desktop you know you can access your remote applications and/or remote desktop using either the AVD remote desktop client or the web interface (https://client.wvd.microsoft.com/arm/webclient/). Well, the web interface is getting updated and is now available in preview NOTE the new experience will become ultimately the default one Administrators have nothing
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