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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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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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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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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It is becoming easier to filter for unread activities in Teams client with the new unread only toggle becoming available in the Activity feed The deployment is underway for preview tenants and expected to be rolled out from early November for standard release tenants
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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/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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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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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
Azure Storage account allows you to store data objects (blobs, files, queues, tables or disks) in the cloud. When you create a storage account you have to select a redundancy option – from locally redundant (LRS) to Geo-zone redundant (GZRS), and anything in between. If you selected a non-zonal (LRS or GRS) redundancy option, it
