SCCM – You can now define the default view of the Software Center

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With System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) 1906 Current Branch, you can define the default view your user will get when loading the Software Center: Default application filter: you can choose between All or Required applications Default application view: you can choose between Title or List view To configure the default view, open your SCCM administration […]

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Exchange Online – A new ‘Deleted’ folder appears in OWA in your Contacts

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If you are using Outlook Web Access (aka OWA, aka Outlook on the Web) (https://outlook.office.com/), you will notice in your Contacts a new folder has appeared called Deleted The idea of this Deleted folder in your Contacts is to simplify the recovery of mistakenly deleted contacts; instead of going through all the deleted items in

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Teams – The phone number management is now part of the Teams administration portal

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With the move from Skype for Business Online to Microsoft Teams, the Teams product group is being busy to fill all remaining gaps between the 2 products, including administration capabilities. Well, another step has been completed with the integration of the Voice\Phone numbers management capabilities in the Microsoft Teams administration portal (https://admin.teams.microsoft.com/). The phone number

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Azure AD Connect – You can now synchronize your password policy and force the password change at next logon (preview)

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As you know, you have been able to synchronize your user’s passwords with Azure AD Connect for quite some time now thanks to the password hash synchronization feature. However, there has been a small gap there: you were not able to get the “User must change password at next logon” attribute value synchronized to request

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Azure AD – You can now perform bulk actions on users and groups from the portal (preview)

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You may already have quite few scripts at your disposal to perform bulk actions on cloud user accounts and/or groups on Azure Active Directory (AAD). Well, maintaining (or using) these scripts is no longer a requirement as the Azure AD portal has been updated to allow you bulk actions on user accounts/groups. Bulk actions are

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SCCM – The case of 100% disk active time

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Recently I have been running a problematic 100% disk active time on my System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) environment. SCCM has been running quite smoothly for few years; running on Windows Server 2019 with SQL co-located. One day I noticed the disks, where the databases are save, were continuously active (100% disk active time) and

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Azure AD / Office 365 – New Global Reader built-in role is coming

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It has been a long awaited capability: being able to give a complete read-access only to Azure AD/Office 365 administration. Well good news, a read-only administrative access role is coming – called Global Reader. The deployment will start on September 24 and scheduled to be completed by October. It worth noting that few limitations will

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Outlook Mobile – You can now reply to meeting request directly from the push notification

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The Outlook mobile application (iOS: https://apps.apple.com/app/microsoft-outlook/id951937596 – Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.microsoft.office.outlook) has been updated and allows you to reply to meeting request directly from the push notification.

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Windows – The PowerToys are back

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For those who use Windows 95 to Windows XP, you  may know the famous PowerToys for Windows, giving you more customization and powerfull tools (like TwekUI or Virtual Desktop Manager for Windows XP).   Well, good new, the PowerToys are back with Windows 10. The first release includes a cheat sheet Windows key shortcut (this

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Azure – The Azure mobile app now simplifies multi subscription management

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The Azure mobile application (iOS: https://apps.apple.com/au/app/microsoft-azure/id1219013620  – Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.microsoft.azure) has been updated and now simplifies management operations when you have multiple subscriptions. Previously, you had to switch between the subscription in your tenant to access the Azure resources in this subscription (as shown below) Now, you can enable the Multiple subscriptions mode (in preview) and

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