Azure AD – You can now define the multifactor authentication strength (preview)

Azure AD comes with a lot of security features – some recent such as Passwordless authentication, some less recent such as conditional access – helping protecting your identities and workloads access. Well, in the never ending journey to keep secure identities and data, the Conditional Access feature has been updated to allow administrators to request

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Intune – You can now notify end-users when a device has been enrolled (preview)

Intune/Endpoint Configuration Manager can now enable notification – either by email or push notification – to notify end-user when a device has been enrolled by them. This notification can help reporting enrollment mistakes or during the onboarding process of new users. The enrollment notification is available for all platforms (Windows, iOS or Android) and works

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Teams – You can now use short video in chat

A new way to interact with your colleagues has been introduced in Teams and is turned on by default: Video Clips. Teams administrators can decide to turn it off by editing their corresponding Messaging Policy from the Teams administration portal (https://admin.teams.microsoft.com/) using the Messaging Policies blade (or Teams PowerShell) Connect-MicrosoftTeams Set-CsTeamsMessagingPolicy -Identity <messaging policy> -AllowVideoMessages

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Azure – You can now review and optimize your Azure Firewall policies with Policy Analytics (preview)

If you use Azure Firewall you know you have to create (and then maintain) a Firewall Policy; which can become a tricky operation as policy updates may be required several a week or a day. In addition, the team in charge of maintaining such policies may not be aware of updates impacting the protected workloads

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Azure – You will need to upgrade your Basic Public IP by end of September 2025

If you are using the Basic SKU for public IP addresses in Azure, you will have to upgrade them to use the Standard SKU before September 30th, 2025. Indeed, starting September 30th, 2025 the Basic SKU for Public IP address in Azure will be retired. NOTE as Basic SKU does not offer Availability Zone support,

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Intune – You can now know to how many users or devices will get the assignment

When assigning a configuration profile (or edit existing one) you now can know how many users and/or devices will be impacted by the assignment. This is being helpful to identify if the assigned groups are the correct ones.  

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Azure AD – You can now view delegated partners in AAD

If you work with Microsoft Cloud services, like Azure or Office 365, you probably know that you can grant delegated administration access to partners to help you managing and supporting your environment. Until now, the only place to see the delegated admin partners was from the Office 365 administration portal (https://admin.microsoft.com/) under the Settings\Partner Relationships

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Azure – You can now test your Azure Monitor Action Group (preview)

Monitoring your workloads is an important task to ensure they are running smoothly and accordingly to your expectations. If you have workloads running on Azure, you may already know that the monitoring and alerting capability is delivered through Azure Monitor. When using Azure Monitor to monitor your workloads, you have to define the rule (scope

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