AVD – A new version of the AVD remote desktop client is available

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  If you use Azure Virtual Desktop, you now you can access your remote applications and/or desktop using either a web browser or the remote desktop client.   Well, a new version of the client (1.2.3918) is now available: x64 https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=2139369 x32 https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=2139456 ARM64 https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=2139370 This version is mainly providing fixes and improvements, so now […]

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Intune – New troubleshooting experience available in preview

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If you use Intune to manage your devices (either corporate, BYOD, mobile, full cloud or even in co-management), you will be happy to learn a new troubleshooting experience is now available in preview. This new experience provides: Export, filter, and sort on reports Support for excluded policies and applications Filter the entire experience to a

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Azure Virtual Desktop – You can now enable watermarking (preview)

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With increasing use of Azure Virtual Desktop, it is more and more important to ensure sensitive information are protected. A first level of protection has been added with the screen capture protection (see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-desktop/screen-capture-protection/). Today a new screen capture protection capability is being made available in preview: watermarking When enabled, QR code watermarks appear as

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Intune – You can now display applications from SCCM

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If you use SCCM in hybrid mode with Intune (aka cloud attach), your client devices may be in co-management state. Co-management allows you to define who (SCCM or Intune) is responsible for specific workloads (applications, windows update…). If you are either piloting or already have switched the client apps (aka software management) workload to Intune,

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Teams – Presenter window improvements during screen sharing

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The presenter window experience in Teams has always been a little bit problematic during screen sharing. Presenters were not always able to easily interact with the audience (hand raised for example) or quickly manage its own settings (mute, camera, stop sharing….). Well, good news a new and improved presenter window experience is coming. Currently being

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Azure AD – You can now set an Azure AD Application Proxy app in maintenance mode

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If you use Microsoft Cloud services, you know that identity and access control is managed by Azure AD. Azure AD which comes with a feature called Azure AD Application Proxy to allow you publishing internal applications without configuring your firewall and can integrate with Azure AD for authentication and access control (see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/app-proxy/application-proxy/ to know

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Azure – You can now do virtual machine in-place upgrade

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As Windows administrator, you know the importance of keeping up with Windows server versions to stay supported and receive updates. To do so, you usually have 2 options to upgrade your Windows server version: in-place upgrade deploy a new virtual machine running the targeted version and then migrate your workloads and data on this new

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Teams – Window sharing is now generally available in Azure Virtual Desktop

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  The Microsoft Teams product group has been working hard to deliver seamless user experience in Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) for Teams users to provide similar experience on both physical and virtualized (aka AVD) session.   The capability to share your windows in Azure Virtual Desktop session while using Teams is now generally available. That

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Forms – You can now add background music to your Forms

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By now, you probably already know Microsoft Forms, the form./quiz feature from Office 365. Since its introduction, Forms has evolved to provide more capabilities, including more customization options. Well, you can now also add background music to entertain users when filling up your form. To do so, just create or edit a Forms (https://forms.office.com/) and

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Intune – Enable self-service password reset on Windows login screen new option

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As you are now probably aware, Intune administrators were able to enable self-service password reset (SSPR) on the Windows login screen for quite some time This enablement required to create a custom Intune device configuration profile, as documented here https://blog.hametbenoit.info/2017/11/06/azure-ad-allow-end-users-to-reset-password-or-pin-from-the-login-screen/. Well, as Intune has been evolving quite quickly and some time you may miss updates,

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