Intune – You can send notification to managed devices

You can now send notification to iOS and Android managed devices to communicate with specific group of users (or all users). Off course, do not use this notification feature to send sensitive information as it may appear on the lock screen and/or be accessible by other applications. To start using it you need to have […]

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Azure – Virtual machines insights in preview

A new performance and monitor feature has been made available for Azure virtual machines called Insights. This new capabilities (in preview) allows you to have deeper performance analysis of your virtual machine. All the capabilities offered by this new feature are not all available depending of your configuration: The Health feature is only available for

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Skype for Business – Important change coming for public federation

If you have setup (or plan to) public federation with your Skype for Business on-premises, the following change is important. Until now, when setting up public federation with Skype for Business you had to go to pic.lync.com website to manually provision the public IM connectivity. On August 15th 2019, this website is being shutdown and

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Exchange Online – You can now manage authentication session for Exchange Online with Azure AD Conditional Access

As you may be already aware, you have been able to manage authentication session (aka control the frequency at which your users need to re-enter their credentials) with SharePoint Online for quite some time by using the Azure AD Conditional Access. Well, now you can do the same for Exchange Online. You can use the

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Azure AD – You can now use FIDO2 keys and Microsoft Authenticator App to authenticate against Azure AD

You can now enable password-less authentication to Azure AD, including Azure AD Application, with Microsoft Authenticator App, Fido2 Keys or Windows Hello. To start using the new password-less authentication methods, logon to your Azure AD portal (https://aad.portal.azure.com/) or Azure portal (https://portal.azure.com) and reach out the Authentication methods blade From there you can enable FIDO2 Security

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SCCM – Desktop Analytics is now available in public preview

As you may be aware, System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) Current Branch has been providing insights about your devices using Windows Analytics, helping you in the upgrade process from previous version of Windows to Windows 10. Well, Windows Analytics is now evolving into Desktop Analytics to provide more recommendations and better application compatibility. To start

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Outlook – Get your Outlook settings saved in the cloud and sync between devices

UPDATE thanks to Laurent Miltgen-Delinchamp as per https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/officeupdates/release-notes-office-insider#april-5-2019 this appears for Click to Run installation in April (Insiders) Not sure when this came out nor which Outlook version (2013, 2016, 2019, Click to Run) is getting it, but a new settings has been available to save your Outlook settings and get it synced across other

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Outlook – You can now automatically dismiss reminders for past events

Not sure when this came out nor which Outlook version (2013, 2016, 2019, Click to Run) is getting it, but a new settings has been available to automatically dismiss reminders for past events. This is quite handy as one day or another we all faced the situation where we were getting reminders for past events.

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Teams – Register for Microsoft Teams Previews

As you may be already aware, there has been a website on which you can register to join Skype for Business preview (https://www.skypepreview.com/). Well, now you also have the same possibility for Microsoft Teams. You can register at the following address http://aka.ms/JoinTAP100 to join Microsoft Teams preview programs. By joining this preview program, you will

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Office 365 – Important change coming on July 5th for Federation Trust used by Exchange and the Federation Gateway

Kind of late notification about an important change taking place on July 5th, the certificates used by the Microsoft Federation Gateway are going to be replaced. If you are using Exchange 2013 SP1 or later, this change should not affect you as this part of the regular tasks executed by Exchange. However if you are

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