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Teams and external members Pt. 2

Many customers using Microsoft Teams request teams restricted to internal members, without guest account access. Teams’ behavior is very often controlled by SharePoint or Microsoft 365 Group settings and a typical team user may not know anything about these settings. We recommend building your own app or automation to ensure

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Microsoft Intune – Autopatch – CVE and KB reporting – Better visibility, smarter patching

Introduction Microsoft has begun the rollout of a new and powerful reporting capability to Windows Autopatch customers: Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE)/KB Reporting. While still in preview and it’s subject to change before GA, this feature is already proving to be one of the most valuable additions to the Autopatch reporting

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Entra ID – PIM for Groups – Automating PIM Group Activation in Entra ID with PowerShell

Microsoft Entra ID Privileged Identity Management (PIM) for Groups allows organizations to control and audit elevated group memberships through just-in-time access. Managing elevated permissions in Microsoft Entra ID can sometimes be tricky, especially when it comes to Privileged Identity Management (PIM) for Groups. While the Entra portal allows users to

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Heads-up: Service Principal-less apps Retirement March 2026

In March 2026, Entra ID will stop supporting service principal-less authentication behavior. This may affect certain applications currently running in your tenant. Service principal-less apps may already be frozen since April 2025 if they weren’t actively used, but those apps that were, have remained uninterrupted until March next year. Microsoft

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Azure Arc VM Onboarding Pt.3 – Post-Deployment Task Automation

In this final blogpost on onboarding, I want to cover a way to automate some common post-deployment configuration tasks. When a machine is Arc onboarded, by default, it won’t really have much installed and it’s not particularly useful until you start deploying extensions. Azure Arc VM Onboarding blog mini-series overview:

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External mail settings

As demonstrated previously, numerous technical configurations are available to support effective Microsoft 365 Governance. In this post, we will examine several minor adjustments that have the potential to significantly influence our user’s behavior. When receiving mail from external partners, by default our users must know that the mail is received

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Microsoft Teams and external members Pt. 1

Many customers using Microsoft Teams request teams restricted to internal members, without guest account access. Teams’ behavior is very often controlled by SharePoint or Microsoft 365 Group settings and a typical team user may not know anything about these settings. We recommend building your own app or automation to ensure

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Inactive Teams and governance

During our Microsoft 365 Governance workshops with customers, a common question is how to handle inactive teams. Our primary recommendation is to implement automated processes for archiving inactive teams, team owners can also archive a team themselves. The team’s conversations and files will be set to read-only and remain searchable.

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How Community Feedback Shaped the New Entra ID App Management UI

Back in September Microsoft has recently teaset App Management Policies in Microsoft Entra ID UI, which let you set tenant-wide restrictions on how applications and service principals can be configured from the UI – for example restricting certificate lifetimes, blocking new passwords/secrets, enforcing valid URI formats, etc. (as it looks like for now

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