Teams – You can now enable Q&A on Teams meeting

As you probably already know, you can use the Teams meeting chat to exchange with participant and also ask questions. Well, when you are in a large and/or structured meeting – such as training or town hall – questions asked using the chat windows may be ‘lost’ for the organizer due to the ‘chat noise’. […]

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Teams – You can disable chat write access for anonymous or unauthenticated users

As you know when on a Teams meeting participants can use the chat feature to communicate with each others. You may be also aware that you can also allow anonymous or unauthenticated users to join a Teams meeting (if your Teams administrators allow it from the Meetings\Meeting Policies blade). When combined together (chat feature and

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Azure – How to remotely connect to Azure virtual machines

When running workloads on cloud services ones of the challenges is to manage them in a secure way; this especially true when you have to manage virtual machines. Accessing and managing virtual machines in an on-premises environment is usually done either using Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) for Windows machines or Secure Shell (SSH) for Linux

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Forms – You can now collect Forms response by sending invitation

If you use Office 365, you are probably aware about the Microsoft Forms feature which allows you to create quiz or surveys. Well, until now when you wanted to collect responses you had to either copy the link and manually share it, send an email, use a QR code or embedded the link on a

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Teams – You can now pop out shared content during a meeting

If you are using Teams you may already know that you can pop out your chat on different window (see https://t.co/t6rVmsEldW). Well, you can now also pop out the shared content on a different window while in a meeting. To do so, when in the meeting, use the pop out button shown in the meeting

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Teams – A new administration Teams application is available

If you are administering Microsoft Teams you already know that you can use either PowerShell or the Teams administration portal (https://admin.teams.microsoft.com/). Well good news as now you can perform main administration operations directly from your Teams client using the new Microsoft Admin application. To install the app, open the Teams App Store and search for

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Teams – You can now join a Teams meeting with a meeting ID

Joining a Teams meeting has been improved by now providing the ability to join using meeting ID. When scheduling a meeting, your invitation will contain the usual “Click here to join the meeting” link but also a meeting ID and passcode These meeting ID and passcode can then be used to join the meeting using

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Azure – Get ready for depreciation of the legacy Log Analytics agent (preview)

If you work with Azure – either in a full cloud environment or in hybrid configuration – you probable already know the Log Analytics agent used to send to an Azure Log Analytics workspace telemetry about your virtual machines. The Log Analytics agent is being replaced by Azure Monitor agent which provide more insights about

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Azure AD – Update ASAP your Azure AD Connect instance

A new version (2.1.15.0) of the directory synchronization tool – Azure AD Connect – has been released. You need to urgently update your existing AAD Connect instance as this new version fixes a security vulnerability in the Azure AD Connect Admin agent. In addition of this security fix, few new capabilities have been added, such

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Azure AD – You can now expand the groups write-back capabilities to more group types

If you are working in an hybrid environment with Active Directory on-premises being synchronized to Azure AD using Azure AD Connect, you are already probably aware about the group write-back capability which allows you to synchronize back to Active Directory Office 365 groups. Well, this capability has been extended to allow you to also write-back

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