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Intune – You can now use multiple administrator approval for administration task (preview)

When performing Intune administration tasks, there are tasks – for example application updates – which may require a second view before being deployed and applied. You can now request a second approval step when performing some administrative tasks. During this preview, the multiple approval workflow applies only to: Application – applies to application deployment but […]

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Azure Virtual Desktop – Support for confidential virtual machine is available in preview

Earlier in July 2022, Microsoft has made generally available a new compute series – Azure confidential virtual machine (DCasv5 and ECasv5) (see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/confidential-computing/overview/). Today, this Azure confidential virtual machine series is made available in preview for use with Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD). Support for confidential virtual machine is available for Windows 11 22H2 hosts; support

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Azure Virtual Desktop – You can now monitor your AVD at scale (preview)

If you use the Azure virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) Azure Virtual Desktop, you already know that you can monitor your AVD host pool health (insights). Well, until know if you had multiple host pools – which is the case if you have a mix of pooled and personal host – you could not have insights

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Azure AD – Use Machine Learning in Azure AD Access Review (preview)

If you have Azure AD P2 license (either standalone or bundle with an Office 365 or EMS subscription), you know you can use the Access Review feature to help you manage access to your resources to only user which still need it. Access Review involve some level of human intervention to either approve or review

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Azure – You can now restore virtual machine in a different subscription (preview)

If you are running virtual machines in Azure, you already know that you can backup your virtual machine using Azure Recovery Vault. Well, until now, when you had to restore a virtual machine you could only restore it within the same subscription. This is no longer the case as you can now restore the virtual

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Azure – You can now use shareable link to connect to Azure Bastion (preview)

As you know Azure Bastion allows you to securely remotely connect to virtual machines running on Azure using either Remote Desktop (RDP) or SSH without having to open the corresponding ports to Internet. Access to the virtual machine using Bastion is performed by connecting the Azure portal using your web browser or using the native

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Intune – You can now send organization messages to Windows 11 devices

In 2029, Microsoft introduced a way to send messages to Android and iOS devices using Company Portal (see https://blog.hametbenoit.info/2019/07/24/intune-you-can-send-notification-to-managed-devices/). Well, this functionality has been extended to now allows you to send messages to Windows 11 devices too. With this updated functionality you can do the following: Enable always-on device onboarding messages to help people ramp

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Azure – You can now exclude public IP address from DDOS network protection (preview)

As you may already know, Microsoft Azure provides a Distributed Denial Of Service (DDOS) protection to protect your workloads publicly accessible on Azure (see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ddos-protection/ddos-protection-overview/). However, there is situation where you may need to have a public IP address being excluded from the DDOS protection. Well, you can now exclude public IP address from the

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Intune – You can now manage macOS updates with Intune (preview)

As you already know you can control updates for Windows devices with Intune. Well, good news, you can now do the same for macOS devices. To manage which updates and when they are being installed on your macOS fleet, connect to your Intune portal (https://endpoint.microsoft.com/) to access the Devices\Update policies for macOS blade to create

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Intune – You can now create a set of reusable settings for Attack Surface Reduction Profile and Firewall Profile

As you now to configure devices and Windows Firewall for managed devices in Intune you use profiles – attack surface reduction profiles or firewall profiles. You may have multiple profiles to apply different configuration settings on devices and these profiles may have common configuration settings. Unfortunately, until now, you were not able to define a

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