A new personalization capability is coming on SharePoint Online and OneDrive for Business: folder colorization. Yes, you have read correctly, you are being able to set colors (from a set of 16 different colors) on folders (new and existing) on SharePoint Online and OneDrive for Business. Deployment of this feature is currently underway, with a […]
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You can now implement custom rules supporting rate-limit on your regional Web Application Gateway Firewall. The rate-limit rules detect and block abnormal high levels of traffic, helping you to protect against denial of service attack. To implement such rule, connect to your Azure portal (https://portal.azure.com/) to create a new WAF (web application firewall) policy or
As you may know, with Windows Update you have ‘mandatory’ updates (aka the monthly, cumulative updates) and optional updates, which usually covers some specific Windows components. Deploying the optional updates has been a major pain over the past years as they are optional, which means they were not always deployed unless end-user (when allowed) where
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As you probably know, Microsoft has been developing a new Teams client to provide better performance (more details here https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/new-teams-desktop-admin/). Well, starting September 2023 through December 2023, this new Teams desktop client will be included as part of new and existing Microsoft 365 Apps (Office client). Expected deployment schedule: Business plans September 2023 Enterprise plans
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If you use Azure Virtual Desktop with FSLogix to manage user profile roaming, you know you have to check and update your image every time there is a new FSLogix version. Well, here is a good news for you as since August 8th, 2023: FSLogix is now being automatically updated; in addition, the
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Previously, Intune administrators were able to enforce the use of the private/company store by using the “Only display the private store within the Microsoft Store app” policy. Unfortunately, this did not prevent end-users to directly access the public store using the Windows Package Manager (winget) APIs. Well, good news as now administrators can now fully
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Application Gateway allows you to create customized error pages instead of displaying default ones. Until now, it was allowing to customize only the HTTP 403 (Forbidden) and HTTP 502 (Bad Gateway) error codes. Well, good news as now you can also customize 6 additional error codes: 400 – Bad Request 405 – Method Not Allowed
By now, Azure administrators should be aware about the Azure mobile application for Android or iOS. Few month ago, Microsoft has started to include access to your Azure AD tenant from the Azure mobile application (see https://t.co/ayBZHVODXx). Well, this access has been now improved as you can now reset user’s password from the application. NOTE
Managing cost when running cloud services is an important thing and maybe sometime difficult, especially ensuring you are using all cost optimization benefits such as Azure Hybrid benefits. To help you checking you are properly optimizing your workloads cost, a new workbook is now available in preview to give you an overview of your cost.
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You know that with Intune you can deploy applications, including LOB/legacy applications (Win32). However, if a Win32 application was made available and installed with administrative privileges (system context), this application could not be uninstalled by end-user without requesting assistance due to the administrative privileges. Well, good news, your end-users can now do it without any
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