Teams – New Teams powered encoder for Live Events (preview)

If you use Teams to host your meeting for a large audience (Live Events) you should know that a new encoder (RTMP-In) is available in preview. The new encoder option is available when you create your Live Event meeting To be able to use this new encoder you need to ensure your Teams tenant is […]

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Intune – Updates for Intune network endpoints

  If you use Microsoft Intune (aka Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Manger) and are filtering Internet access from your corporate network, you need to update your firewall filtering configuration to update the allowed IP addresses for Microsoft Intune.   Microsoft has updated the network endpoints used by Intune due to the added Azure services (Azure Scale

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Teams – You can now view users/groups assigned to a policy from the portal

As a Teams administrator you know you can create various policies (teams, meeting, voice…) to manage features configuration. These policies are then assigned to users or groups. Well, you can now more easily view which users/groups are assigned to a policy from the Teams administration portal. To use this new capability, logon to your Teams

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Intune – You can now onboard Linux clients in Intune

As you know, Intune/Endpoint Configuration Manager is the device management solution from Microsoft, allowing you to manage Windows, MacOS, iOS/iPad or Android devices – from device configuration to software deployment or device compliance. Well, until now there was one major operating system missing: Linux. Good news, you can now onboard Linux devices in Intune to

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Windows 10 – The latest release – 22H2 – of Windows 10 is now available

  About 3 weeks after releasing Windows 11 22H2, Microsoft has now released the new major update for Windows 10: Windows 10 22H2 or Windows 10 2022 Update.   You can get it from your Visual Studio Subscription (https://my.visualstudio.com/downloads), Download Center (using the Media Creation tool – https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10) or your Volume License portal (https://www.microsoft.com/vlsc), plus

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Exchange Online – You will be able to recall read messages

As you probably know, Exchange has always been able to let senders to recall messages (delivered to recipients in the same organization). The recall feature has always been misunderstood by end-users as it was not possible to recall message already read or sent outside the organization. Well, the recall feature is being updated to now

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Azure – The new Azure PowerShell module (9.0) introduces lot of breaking changes

  If you are working with Microsoft Azure, you know you can perform activities using either the portal, Azure PowerShell module or Azure Cli.   Well, the new Azure PowerShell module (version 9.0 – released few days ago) introduces a bunch of breaking changes.   You may need to review and update your scripts before

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Azure – Migrate your Linux virtual machine Desired State Configuration extensions

  On September 30, 2023, the Desired State Configuration (DSC) and Azure Automation extensions for Linux virtual machines will be retired.   These extensions are being replaced by the new Azure Automanage (https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/governance/machine-configuration/overview/). You can plan the migration of your existing DSC and Automation extensions for LInux to Azure Automanage by checking this documentation https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/governance/machine-configuration/machine-configuration-dsc-extension-migration/

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Azure – Azure Classic Resource providers are being retired

  If you use Microsoft Azure, you probably know that resources and management of these resources rely on resource providers.   You may also know that there is 2 different resource providers for some of these resources: Classic Resource Provider – to deploy and manage resources using the classic / legacy method, inherited from the

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Teams–You can now schedule messages

You can now schedule sending your Teams chat messages at a later time. This new capability to send your chat messages is currently being deployed for preview tenants and scheduled for deployment as per the below schedule: Production: early November, completed by late November GCC: mid-November and completed by late November GCCH: late November and

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