SCCM – The new 2211 version of SCCM is now available and has a new prerequisite

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The new release of System Center Configuration Manager 2211 is now available. It will be made available through the in-console update gradually. As always, you can force the detection by using the early update script available here https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=2099733 As part of this release a new prerequisite check has been introduced: Network Access Account (NAA) account […]

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Azure Virtual Desktop – Support for confidential virtual machine is available in preview

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Earlier in July 2022, Microsoft has made generally available a new compute series – Azure confidential virtual machine (DCasv5 and ECasv5) (see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/confidential-computing/overview/). Today, this Azure confidential virtual machine series is made available in preview for use with Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD). Support for confidential virtual machine is available for Windows 11 22H2 hosts; support

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Azure Virtual Desktop – You can now monitor your AVD at scale (preview)

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If you use the Azure virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) Azure Virtual Desktop, you already know that you can monitor your AVD host pool health (insights). Well, until know if you had multiple host pools – which is the case if you have a mix of pooled and personal host – you could not have insights

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Azure AD – Access to Azure AD from O365 administration portal going to redirect to Entra

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With the introduction earlier in July of Microsoft Entra to centralize all identity and access management capabilities, starting December 2022 access to Azure AD from the Office 365 administration portal will redirect to the Entra portal (https://entra.microsoft.com). The rollout of this redirection is expected to be completed by March 2023. Off course you can still

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Teams – Old Teams client version are going to be blocked by January 9th

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As you may know, the Microsoft Teams client is supposed to self-update when a new version is available – usually about once a month. There may be situation where the self-update process does not work – while I’m not aware of any situation like this. Stating now, users using Teams 1.5.00.616 or earlier will start

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Azure AD – Use Machine Learning in Azure AD Access Review (preview)

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If you have Azure AD P2 license (either standalone or bundle with an Office 365 or EMS subscription), you know you can use the Access Review feature to help you manage access to your resources to only user which still need it. Access Review involve some level of human intervention to either approve or review

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Teams – You can now control the ‘suggest a feature’ menu

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If you use Teams, you are probably aware that end-users can suggest/request a feature from Teams clients (desktop, mobile, web) NOTE this menu is not available in GCC, GCC High or DOD tenants Well, Teams administrators now have the ability to manage the availability of this menu to end-users To manage it you need to

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Azure AD – You can now customize the favicon, header and footer

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As you know, you have at least Azure AD P1 license, you can configure your company branding to use custom background and logo. That said, even with company branding implemented, there is still settings (favicon or header/footer) using generic Microsoft resources.   Well, the company branding feature has been updated to now allow you to

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Azure – You can now restore virtual machine in a different subscription (preview)

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If you are running virtual machines in Azure, you already know that you can backup your virtual machine using Azure Recovery Vault. Well, until now, when you had to restore a virtual machine you could only restore it within the same subscription. This is no longer the case as you can now restore the virtual

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