AVD–Ensure your Azure Virtual Desktop client is running version 1.2.4583

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  A CVE (Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures) is currently being exploited impacting Azure Virtual Desktop Client on Windows devices.   The CVE details are available here https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2023-5217.   Ensure your are running the latest version (1.2.4583) of the AVD client: x86 https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=2139144 x64 https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=2139369 ARM64 https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=2139368 If you kept the auto-update capability, the client should […]

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Teams – Introducing Town Hall and Live Events retirement

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Microsoft is now introducing a new virtual event experience called Town Hall. Town Hall will replace Live Events – retirement is scheduled for September 30, 2024. Town Hall can be used to host and deliver large-scale, internal or external events to create connections across an organization. Town hall will replace Teams Live Events and is

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Teams – The new Teams client is now generally available for Windows and MacOS

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As you probably aware, over the past year a new and improved Teams client (Teams 2.0) has been in development and preview. Well, today marks the general availability of this new client for Windows and MacOS. One of the major improvement is a better and seamless cross-tenant (multi-tenant organization or multi-tenant/multi-account) management. To enjoy the

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Azure – You can now enable trusted launch on existing virtual machines

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As you may already know, you have been able to create virtual machines on Azure with trusted launch capabilities – Secure Boot, vTPM… Until now, you could not enable trusted launch on existing VM’s. After few months in private preview, you can now enable it on existing virtual machines. Off course, existing virtual machines must

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Azure – Default outbound internet access will be retired in September 2025

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As you know when you deploy virtual machines in Azure, these VM’s automatically have internet provided through a default outbound internet access. Because the default outbound connectivity uses a default public address which can change and is not compliant with a Zero trust approach, it has been a recommendation to implement an explicit outbound connectivity

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Intune / AVD – Settings for Azure Virtual Desktop are now available in Intune

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If you are using Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD, formerly known as Windows Virtual Desktop – WVD), you know there has been few settings being made available through group policy (GPO) such as watermarking or screen capture protection. Unfortunately, until now, there was no settings available in Intune to manage such settings, unless using when possible

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Entra ID – Automatically remediate user risk with on-premises password change (preview)

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It is becoming easier to manage user risk in hybrid environments with Entra ID Protection (formerly known as Azure AD Identity Protection). Indeed, user risk policy requires to change the password when the user is identified at risk. However, the change of password was not detected by Entra Protection signals when the change was performed

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Intune – You can now launch a remote help session directly from the portal and availability for MacOS

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If you are using Intune with a Remote Help add-on or an Intune Suite license, you know your helpdesk can use the Remote Help feature to deliver support assistance to end-users. Until now the remote help session had to be initiated by sharing a security code between the helper and the end-user. Well, good news,

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Azure – A new timeline experience is available for Azure Monitor alerts (preview)

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As you probably already know, you can use Azure Monitor to monitor your resources health and availability. Well, a new alert timeline experience is now available in preview. It will simplifies reviewing and investigating fired alerts. To start enjoying this new experience, connect to your Azure portal (https://portal.azure.com/) and search for Monitor to access the

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Intune – The Endpoint Configuration Manager portal URL is being replaced

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  About 2 years ago, Microsoft has announced that the Intune and System Configuration Manager (SCCM) will be renamed under the Endpoint Configuration Manager product umbrella.   This introduced a new administration portal URL for Intune https://endpoint.microsoft.com/.   Well, fast forward to few months ago, Microsoft announced rolling back Endpoint Configuration Manager product to Intune.

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