Azure – You can now enable Azure Virtual Machine Insights with Azure Monitor (preview)

If you are running virtual machines in Azure, you are probably already aware that you can have insights about the performance of your virtual machines (see https://blog.hametbenoit.info/2019/07/19/azure-virtual-machines-insights-in-preview/). Well, good new as now you also have the same by using Azure Monitor. One of the advantage of it is you don’t need to have multiple virtual […]

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Teams – Teams administrators can now customize their Teams Dashboard

As Teams administrator, you already well know the Dashboard being shown when logging on the Teams administration portal (https://admin.teams.microsoft.com/). Well, you can now customize this Dashboard (same as for the Office 365 administration portal) to only display the information which are relevant to you. To do so, connect to your Teams portal and click on

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Intune – You can now import your ADMX file into Intune (preview)

If you Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Manager (aka Intune) to manage your devices, you may already know that you can use Administrative templates provided by Microsoft as well as analyse your existing GPO settings to prepare your migration (see https://t.co/tqoPstbND8). Well, the migration path from Group Policy to Intune configuration profile is becoming even easier as

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Office – You can now share your Word document in review mode

If you are using SharePoint Online and/or OneDrive, you already know you can share your Office documents in read or edit mode. Well, good news you can now also share your Word document in review  mode. Sharing in review mode allows Word document sharing with limited edit capability while enabling change tracking automatically. This new

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Azure AD / Azure – Subscriptions filter in AAD and Azure portal are not in sync

As you may be aware, you can enable Azure AD Diagnostic Settings to send the logs to either an Azure Log Analytics, an Azure Storage Account, an Azure Event Hub or a partner solution to keep and manage Azure AD logs (sign in, audit, authentication logs) by configuring the AAD Diagnostic Settings. Well, I ended

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Teams – You can now define where download files are saved and/or request where to save

As you already know, you can download files stored in OneDrive, SharePoint or Teams (Teams channel or chat) using the Teams client. Well, until now, you had no option to manage where the files were going to be saved (your default Download folder in your user profiles) nor being asked where to save. Good news,

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Yammer – A new Azure AD administration role for Yammer is available

  This is probably the last Office 365 workload which did not had an Azure AD administration role available to delegate his administration.   Yammer is now getting an Azure AD administration role – Yammer Administrator.   When you grant users (or groups as you can also now use Azure AD groups to grant administration

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SCCM – The new System Center Configuration Manager – 2207 – is now available

The new version – 2207 – of System Center Configuration Manager (aka SSCM, aka Endpoint Configuration Manager) is now available. As always, this is an in-console update. This becoming available slowly but if you want to get it now you can always use the script available here https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=2099733 No new features or capabilities, instead improvement

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Teams – You can now recover deleted tags

If you Microsoft Teams, you are probably already aware that you can use tags in Teams to help you categorize peoples (see https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/using-tags-in-teams-667bd56f-32b8-4118-9a0b-56807c96d91e). Well, until now, if somebody deleted an existing tag by mistake (or intentionally) you had no other choice than to recreate it – which can be painful as you would have to

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Azure – Update management is now available in preview

As you are already probably aware, you are able to use Azure to manage updates deployment on your virtual machine running in Azure or even on-premises by using an Azure Automation Account. Well, the experience of managing updates with Azure is now getting better and simpler thanks to the new Update Management capability available now

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