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Azure AD – New authentication method – Authenticator Lite (preview)

A new authentication method called Authenticator Lite is available in preview. Authenticator Lite allows end-users to perform multifactor authentication without the Microsoft Authenticator app. Some end-users may be reluctant to install corporate applications on their mobile device or in some country/region there is a legal requirement for employers to provide corporate mobile phone if corporate […]

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Teams – You can now block the download of Teams meeting recording from SharePoint or OneDrive (preview)

As you know, Teams meeting recordings are saved either in the corresponding SharePoint site or organizer’s OneDrive. These recordings are made available few minutes after the meeting recording ended and now also have an expiration time (default 120 days). Well, you can now block the download of these recordings. Users will have access to the

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Azure AD – You can now use Token Protection with Conditional Access (preview)

You know that you can use Azure AD Conditional Access to secure access to your resource by enforcing MFA, device compliance… Well, Azure AD Conditional Access has been updated to allow you use Token Protection. Token Protection attempts to reduce attacks using token theft by ensuring a token is usable only from the intended device.

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Azure AD – New recommendations for applications (preview)

About a year ago, Microsoft has introduced Azure AD recommendations to help you improve your Azure AD security posture (see https://t.co/92sR2y0bR4). Well, these recommendations have been updated to introduce recommendations for Azure AD applications. While the first recommendations apply to all Azure AD license, these new recommendations for applications require Azure AD P2. The available

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Azure Virtual Desktop – You can now use URI schemes to connect to AVD (preview)

If you use Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD), you now you have to subscribe to a workspace with the AVD client to be able to access published remote applications and/or desktop. Well, good news as you can now use Uniform Resource Identified (URI) schemes with the client to provide direct “links” to directly launch specified AVD

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Intune – You can now configure Microsoft Defender update behaviour (preview)

If use Intune, you know you can manage your devices configuration using configuration profiles. As part of these profiles, you can configure Microsoft Defender to enable firewall, control antimalware behaviour… Until now, you were not able to configure Microsoft Defender update behaviour (engine update,platform update and security intelligence update and update channels – beta, current

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Azure AD – You can now enable suspicious activities reporting (preview)

If you have been using the on-premises Azure MFA server (which by the way is going to be fully deprecated – https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/azure-multifactor-authentication-server-will-be-deprecated-30-september-2024/) you already know that end-users were able to report suspicious activities. Well, this was a missing feature on Azure AD MFA which is now becoming available. First you need to enable it (this

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AVD – New web client experience in preview

If you use Azure Virtual Desktop you know you can access your remote applications and/or remote desktop using either the AVD remote desktop client or the web interface (https://client.wvd.microsoft.com/arm/webclient/). Well, the web interface is getting updated and is now available in preview NOTE the new experience will become ultimately the default one Administrators have nothing

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Intune – New troubleshooting experience available in preview

If you use Intune to manage your devices (either corporate, BYOD, mobile, full cloud or even in co-management), you will be happy to learn a new troubleshooting experience is now available in preview. This new experience provides: Export, filter, and sort on reports Support for excluded policies and applications Filter the entire experience to a

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Azure Virtual Desktop – You can now enable watermarking (preview)

With increasing use of Azure Virtual Desktop, it is more and more important to ensure sensitive information are protected. A first level of protection has been added with the screen capture protection (see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-desktop/screen-capture-protection/). Today a new screen capture protection capability is being made available in preview: watermarking When enabled, QR code watermarks appear as

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