As you know, it is recommended to enable the virtual machine boot diagnostics to help gathering information when troubleshooting virtual machine boot issues (or to simply being able to see if the VM is booting up or has crashed with a blue screen). As you know, the boot diagnostics require the use of a storage […]
Azure – You can now use a managed storage account for the VM boot diagnostics Read More »
For years, IT administrators have been using group policy objects (GPO) – and still continue today – to manage/configure devices, both clients and servers. With the move to a cloud-based devices management, the need to replicate as much as possible settings set using GPO is more and more relevant. To help you prepare moving from
As you know, you can manage Windows Defender settings by creating device configuration profiles using Intune/Endpoint Configuration Manager, including devices managed by SCCM (aka on-premises server) – see https://t.co/VG0DaErni1. Well, you can now monitor the health of all the devices protected by Windows Defender directly from the Intune/Endpoint Configuration Manager portal, including the ones managed
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As you know, you can invite external users (known as guest) to your organization, leading to the creation of a guest account in your Azure AD. You also know that reviewing such external access is always a complicated tasks. To assist in this process, Microsoft has introduced some time ago already a feature called Azure
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As you know, you can delegate permissions to allow certain administrative or management tasks using RBAC (Role Based Access Control) on Intune/Endpoint Configuration Manager. Well, new permissions have been added to the Endpoint Security Manager role: Initiate Configuration Manager action Microsoft Defender ATP Reboot now Remote lock Rotate BitLockerKeys (preview) Rotate FileVault key Shut down
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As you know, Intune/Endpoint Configuration Manager allows your administrators to publish applications from the various app stores (Google Play, Apple App Store, custom…) to your mobile devices. Well, administrators can now also define the application update settings (user choice, never, using Wi-Fi only or Always). To enable this option, you need to use an Android
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As you know, when setting up a Teams meeting you can define who can be automatically admitted to join the meeting, defined by your Teams administrator using Meeting policies. Until now, there was few options between everyone, everyone in your organization and everyone in your organization and federated ones, Well, you can now also automatically
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As you know you can implement Conditional Access on Azure Active Directory to determine conditions of access to applications published through Azure AD. You may also already know that Conditional Access evaluation may be delayed because authentication token obtained previously by the client is not yet expired. This means when a connection condition change it
As every Office 365 administrators know, the Service Health Dashboard is your one stop shop to monitor if Office 365 services are operating. Well, until now, the Service Health was reporting all Office 365 services and you could not hide some because either you are not using them or you are not responsible of supporting/maintaining
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As you know, you can move Azure resources to another subscription or another resource group – except for an handful ones. Until now, this was not possible to move Azure resources to another region. Well, this will be no longer the case soon as a new move to another location (aka another region) capability is
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