Until now, when you wanted to create a new channel, you had first to access the Teams where you want to create the channel. Well, good news as now you can do it directly from the top level (the + sign shown on top of all your Teams). When creating the channel from the top […]
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If you use Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD), you know you can access your remote session using either the web browser or a client deployed on your device. Well, an important vulnerability (CVE-2024-21307 – https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2024-21307) has been found and potentially allowing remote execution code. It is highly recommended to update your AVD client
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When using Teams to chat with someone, you already know you can use the @ symbol to add somebody else to the chat. Well, you now have an additional option available when using the @ symbol in chat: share contact’s details of somebody from your organization. This new option is being made available to
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If you are using Microsoft Entra ID (aka Azure AD), you probably know that you can create dynamic groups to group users or devices based on rules. Well, until now you could use a ‘contains’ or ‘notcontains’ operator when creating the rule using the rule builder. This is no longer the case. The rule builder
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As you probably already know, Azure provides a serverless SQL service called SQL Managed Instance. Well, there is a good news as you can now enjoy a new SKU for free. Before you start jumping around, you need to know the following limitations/restrictions for the free SQL Managed Instance offer: Capacity 1 year 720 vCore
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As you are probably aware a new Teams client (aka Teams client 2.0) has been made available earlier in October for both Windows and MacOS devices. End-users can choose to turn on the new Teams client using the ‘Try the new Teams’ option; or Teams administrators can use a Teams update policy to
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As you may already know, when you create a virtual machine on Azure you can define the availability zone option to configure the virtual machine for availability in case of infrastructure issue within the Azure region where the VM is deployed. Unfortunately, this option was only available during the creation of the virtual machine; once
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If you are synching your on-premises Active Directory to Entra ID (aka Azure AD), you must be aware of the release of a new Entra ID Connect (aka Azure AD Connect) version – 2.3.2) with major updates. One of them is the retirement of the group writeback feature as announced in November 2023
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If you are using Entra ID Connect (aka Azure AD Connect), you may already know about the existence of the group writeback functionality (https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/entra/identity/hybrid/connect/how-to-connect-group-writeback-v2/) which allows you to provision groups on your Active Directory from Entra ID. Well, you need to get ready for the group writeback depreciation starting June 30, 2024. Group writeback
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As you know, Teams allows you to create various type of meetings – from one to one/group to webinar or Town Hall. You can also create Teams meeting from Outlook but until now the only meeting template from Outlook was the ‘meeting’. If you wanted to create a Town Hall or webinar meeting from Outlook,
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