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Entra ID – You can now recover deleted cloud security groups (preview)

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If you have been using M365, you probably already know that you are able to recover some deleted objects. Until now, deleted group recovery was only possible for M365 Groups (including Teams) but not for security, mail-enabled or synchronized groups. After the recent recovery feature update to recover deleted Conditional Access policies and locations (see […]

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Intune – You can now run a remediation script on demand and per device basis (preview)

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If you are Intune administrator, you should already know (and hopefully using) remediation scripts capability which allows you to run detection and remediation scripts on device to maintain specific configuration which are not available through profiles (see Use Remediations to Detect and Fix Support Issues – Microsoft Intune | Microsoft Learn). Until now, remediation scripts

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Entra ID – Manage inactive users with Identity Lifecycle Workflow (preview)

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Identity Governance helps achieving a balance between productivity and security. Identity Lifecycle Workflow as part of Entra ID provides effective identity governance at scale helping managing identity lifecycle by automating accounts management. Unfortunately, there was a gap – which is now filled in preview – related to inactive accounts. These inactive accounts – usually which

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Azure – You can now export your resources with Terraform (preview)

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As you know, you have been able to export your Azure deployment(s) or resource(s) into ARM templates using the Export template option. Well, good news as now you can also use Terraform export First thing first, you need to register the Microsoft.AzureTerraform provider either from the Azure portal, Azure Cli or PowerShell; you can also

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Azure Virtual Desktop – You can now assign multiple personal desktops to user (preview)

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If you use Azure Virtual Desktop as virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) solution, you already know you have 2 different pool types: Personal: used for dedicated use by assigned user to provide a consistent and personalized environment (single VM per assigned users) Pooled: allow multiple users to share a set of users When you use the

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Entra ID – Edit multiple users at once (preview)

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When managing identity systems – such as Active Directory or Entra ID, from time to time, administrators must edit multiple users at once. Until then (and this is still the case for Active Directory, when you had to do such thing on Entra ID, administrators had to use a script. Well, good news as you

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Intune – Hotpatch is becoming available for client devices

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You may have been aware of a major overhaul for Windows Update to allow deploying Windows Updates without having to restart (see Hotpatch for Windows Server | Microsoft Learn). This ‘hotpatch’ capability has been introduced first for Windows Server (2022, 2025) running in Azure and then started to be extended to Windows Server running on-premises

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Teams – Add additional security to your meetings with external participants with Captcha (preview)

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As you may know, there has been more and more threats using Microsoft Teams as communication channel. While Microsoft has already had quite few security features to protect you against threats using Teams – such as message preview for unknown sender or more recently blocking ability for sending message from trial tenant (see Teams –

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Azure – You can now use dashboard on Azure mobile application

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If you are using Microsoft Azure to host and run some workloads on cloud services, you know that you can create and use dashboards when accessing the Azure portal. Well, good news as you can now do the same when using the Azure mobile application (available at the bottom of the Azure mobile app home

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Azure – Deploy Azure Bastion as private (preview)

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By now I hope you know about Azure Bastion, the Azure solution allowing you to connect to your Azure virtual machine though the web browser rather than opening management ports or deploying a jump box virtual machine. Lately, Microsoft has introduced a free version of Azure Bastion (Bastion Developer – see Azure – New low

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