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Benoit HAMET @benoit_hamet

Specialist on Microsoft collaborative products | MVP M365 Apps (Office 365) and Enterprise Mobility

Joined October 2009
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Entra – Do not delete your cross-tenant synced group before you do this blog.hametbenoit.info/2026/0… #entra #entraid #aad #azuread #azureactivedirectory #entracross-tenantsync

Entra – Do not delete your cross-tenant synced group before you do this

As you know, Entra ID offers a way to synchronize identity objects between different tenants (cross-tenant sync) the same way you can synchronize your on-premises Active Directory with Entra (Entra...

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Entra – You can now recover deleted device objects (preview) A new feature has been introduced in Entra: deleted device objects recovery. blog.hametbenoit.info/2026/0… #entraid #entra #azureactivedirectory #aad #azuread

Entra – You can now recover deleted device objects (preview)

A new feature has been introduced in Entra: deleted device objects recovery.Similar to what has been there for years with user objects and more recently to group objects, you can now recover delete...

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Defender – Assess Secure Boot certification expiration status Defender blog.hametbenoit.info/2026/0… #defender #secureboot #windows #windowsclient #windowsserver #microsoftdefender

Defender – Assess Secure Boot certificate expiration status Defender

With the Secure Boot certificate expiration date fast approaching (June 2026), Microsoft has released a new recommendation in Microsoft Defender to assist assessing the readiness of your environmen...

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Entra ID – Prepare to migrate from Entra Connect Sync to Entra Cloud Sync blog.hametbenoit.info/2026/0… #entra #entraid #entraconnectsync #entracloudsync #directorysynchronization #dirsync

Entra ID – Prepare to migrate from Entra Connect Sync to Entra Cloud Sync

  If you are still relying on on-premises Active Directory for your identity management, especially because you still need to access applications or resources on-premises relying on Windows authent...

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Entra ID – You can now synchronize groups with cross-tenant capability blog.hametbenoit.info/2026/0… #entraid #entra #azuread #aad #azureactivedirectory #crosstenantsync #crosstenantsynchronization #entraidcrosstenantsync

Entra ID – You can now synchronize groups with cross-tenant capability

As you probably already know, you can synchronize users from one Entra ID tenant to another one, simplifying user management when in multiple tenant configuration (see Configure cross-tenant synchr...

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Intune – Hotpatch will be enabled by default blog.hametbenoit.info/2026/0… #intune #msintune #microsoftintune #hotpatch #updatemanagement #windowsautopatch

Intune – Hotpatch will be enabled by default

As you probably already know, Microsoft has introduce a feature to reduce the number of device restart after updates deployment on Windows, called Hotpatch (see Hotpatch updates | Microsoft Learn)....

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Entra ID – Manage multi-tenant at scale in security (preview) blog.hametbenoit.info/2026/0… #entraid #entra #aad #azureactivedirectory #azuread #entraidtenantgovernance #entratenantgovernance

Entra ID – Manage multi-tenant at scale in security (preview)

Managing identity across multiple tenants is a growing challenge for organizations of all sizes. Mergers, acquisitions, and the rise of shadow IT often lead to a fragmented tenant landscape—creating...

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Entra ID – You can now backup and recover your Entra tenant (preview) blog.hametbenoit.info/2026/0… #entraid #entra #azureactivedirectory #aad #azurerad #backup

Entra ID – You can now backup and recover your Entra tenant (preview)

As we rely more and more to Entra ID for authentication and access control, a key requirements is the ability to recover from attacks and/or accidental changes.While there has been few improvements...

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Entra ID – Entra ID Connect/Cloud Sync going to block hard match for privileged roles blog.hametbenoit.info/2026/0… #entraid #entraidconnect #entraidcloudsync #privilegedroles

Entra ID – Entra ID Connect/Cloud Sync going to block hard match for privileged roles

If you work in an hybrid environment with Active Directory being synchronized with Entra ID using either Entra ID Connect or Cloud Sync, you probably already the best practice and recommendation to...

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Intune – Block automatic mobile device management enrollment (preview) #intune #msintune #microsoftintune #mdm #mobiledeviceenrollment #byod blog.hametbenoit.info/2026/0…

Intune – Block automatic mobile device management enrollment (preview)

If you are allowing/supporting Bring Your Own Device (BYPO), you may already have experienced unintentional mobile device management (MDM) enrolment for Entra registered devices because end-users...

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Windows – Enable Secure Boot certificate updates blog.hametbenoit.info/2026/0… #windows #windows11 #windows10 #secureboot

Windows – Enable Secure Boot certificate updates

As you know, Microsoft has introduced Secure Boot with Windows 8 (2011) and has become more important with Windows 10 and Windows 11 (this is even a prerequisites).Well, in June 2026 (as announced in...

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Entra ID – New Entra Connect version is available for download blog.hametbenoit.info/2026/0… #entraid #msentraid #microsoftentraid #entraconnect #msentraconnect #microsoftentraconnect #directorysynchronization #dirsync #directorysync

Entra ID – New Entra Connect version is available for download

If you are synching your on-premises Active Directory to Entra ID using Entra Connect, you need to plan to upgrade to the latest version 2.6.1.0This new version does not provide any new capabilities,...

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Teams – You can now customize your recording and transcription notifications blog.hametbenoit.info/2026/0… #teams #msteams #microsoftteams #meetingrecording #meetingtranscription

Teams – You can now customize your recording and transcription notifications

As you know, when using Teams for meetings and authorized users (usually organizers) start recording and/or transcription a notification is displayed to all participants. This notification is enabled...

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Intune – You can now use a PowerShell script when deploying a Win32 app blog.hametbenoit.info/2026/0… #intune #msintune #microsoftintune #win32app #powershellscript

Intune – You can now use a PowerShell script when deploying a Win32 app

As you know, with Intune you can package Windows applications (aka legacy, aka Intune package [Win32]).This package can include PowerShell scripts to perform the installation/uninstallation process...

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Teams – You can now easily migrate from Slack to Teams (preview) blog.hametbenoit.info/2026/0… #teams #msteams #microsoftteams #slack #slacktoteamsmigration #teamsmigration

Teams – You can now easily migrate from Slack to Teams (preview)

  If you are a company using both M365 services and Slack, there is good news as it is becoming easier (and cheaper – aka free ich ) to migrate your data from Slack to Microsoft Teams.   For years,...

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Intune – A single view to consolidate administrators tasks blog.hametbenoit.info/2025/1… #intune #msintune #microsoftintune #administrativetasks #intuneadministrativetasks #intuneadmintasks #admintasks

Intune – A single view to consolidate administrators tasks

You probably know that with Intune you can get administrators to approve, execute some tasks requiring special/temporary elevation/permission through multi-admin approvals, elevation requests or...

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Entra ID/Azure – You can now report an issue from Entra ID and Azure portals (preview) blog.hametbenoit.info/2025/1… #azure #msazure #microsoftazure #azurehealth #msazurehealth #microsoftazurehealtd #entraid

Entra ID/Azure – You can now report an issue from Entra ID and Azure portals (preview)

You probably have experienced over the past few weeks issues authenticating or accessing Microsoft portals and services.Sometime the service health portal (Azure status or central portal Microsoft...

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Azure – You can now use Entra ID authentication to connect to a virtual machine using Bastion blog.hametbenoit.info/2025/1… #azurevirtualmachine #msazurevirtualmachine #microsoftazurevirtualmachine #azurebastion #msazurebastion #microsoftazurebastion #entraidauthentication #entraid

Azure – You can now use Entra ID authentication when connecting to a virtual machine using Bastion

As you probably know now, you can connect to Azure virtual machines using either remote desktop (RDP) or SSH without being obliged to allow such management ports to be opened with network security...

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Teams – Get ready for a new Teams process blog.hametbenoit.info/2025/1… #teams #microsoftteams #msteams #security #teamscall #msteamscall #microsoftteamscall

Teams – Get ready for a new Teams process

Starting January 2026, Microsoft Teams is going to introduce a new process – ms-teams_modulehost.exe – in addition of the existing ms-teams.exe.This new process – ms-teams_modulehost.exe – is going...

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Entra – You can now have a custom branding for each registered application for external identities (preview) blog.hametbenoit.info/2025/1… #entra #entraid #microsoftentra #microsoftentraid #externalidentities #entraidexternalidentities #entraexternalidentities #branding

Entra – You can now have a custom branding for each registered application for external identities...

If you are using Microsoft cloud services, such as Azure and/or M365, you already know that authentication and access control is based on Entra ID.You also then probably know that you can register...

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