How to use apps in Teams channel meetings
You can use apps in meetings for some time now. It’s a great way to quickly share content more interactively or to add additional features to a meeting. Add a poll or share a task from a task management tool. The feature was limited only to scheduled meetings but now you can use it in […] Continue Reading Marcin Siewnicki’s Article on their blog How to use apps in Teams channel meetings You can use apps in meetings for...
Search powered by GPT – quick overview of the new Bing
The new Bing is available as a limited Preview and I got a chance to play with it. It has been released in a few weeks and got a lot of attention. A totally new search experience with AI chat is something that could change the future of how we search. I found it very […] Continue Reading Marcin Siewnicki’s Article on their blog Search powered by GPT – quick overview of the new Bing The new Bing is available as a...
Device clean-up in Azure AD & Intune
It is been a while since I have written a blog post and it was still in the drafts, so it is time to finish it. Some time ago, I was asked if there was a method to automatically clean-up Azure Active Directory from idle devices that had not have been online for several days. I know that in Intune you have an option to automatically remove idle devices from Intune after a few days. But for… Continue Reading Jeroen...
How to configure sensitivity labels for Teams meetings
Security features are one of the pillars of Teams Premium. Today I will show you how to use sensitivity labels in Teams. You can create multiple labels, assign them to different scenarios and manage what is enabled and what’s not in a meeting. Together with Custom meeting templates it gives you control over meeting features […] Continue Reading Marcin Siewnicki’s Article on their blog How to configure sensitivity labels...
Video Filters in Teams meeting – quick overview
Video Filters in Teams meetings are now available in the Public Preview channel. With the feature, you can modify your video stream from your camera. Want to make your video Black and White or add some balloons? You can do that! Let’s go and enable it in Teams and try to test the effects on […] Continue Reading Marcin Siewnicki’s Article on their blog Video Filters in Teams meeting – quick overview Video Filters in...
How to enable end-to-end encryption in Teams meetings
End-to-end encryption – a new feature that helps you protect Teams meeting data is available in the Teams Premium trial license. Using this feature you add an extra protection layer to your meetings and minimize potential attacks. It supports the most important meeting features, and you can enable/disable it using Teams policies. Let’s go and […] Continue Reading Marcin Siewnicki’s Article on their blog How to enable...
A quick guide to Watermarks in Teams
We share many different types of content during Teams meetings, for example, offer documents, Excel with budget data, system architecture, or a diagram with the financial flow. Many documents contain sensitive or even highly confidential information. To protect such data you can use a brand-new feature introduced in the Teams Premium license – Watermarks. In […] Continue Reading Marcin Siewnicki’s Article on their blog A...
Introduction to Teams Meeting Templates
Part of the latest Teams Premium license is the ability to create a custom Teams meeting template. You can create it (as an Admin) and use it to schedule meetings from Teams or Outlook clients. A template contains preconfigured meeting settings so you don’t need to manually edit meeting settings each time you want to […] Continue Reading Marcin Siewnicki’s Article on their blog Introduction to Teams Meeting Templates Part...
Overview of the Teams Premium features
Teams Premium features take meetings, webinars, and administration settings to the next level. Advanced branding settings, enhanced encryption, AI-powered meeting recap and much more. Those features are released as a preview, and you can test it right away. In this blog post, we’ll take a closer look at some of the key features and benefits […] Continue Reading Marcin Siewnicki’s Article on their blog Overview of the...
How to add Teams Phones into Intune
This time it's more a blog post about "notes from the field". At the moment, we are working on a project to replace all analog/digital deskphones to Teams enabled phones from Yealink. Because this is a large organization, the testing actually goes through several groups. Namely, the people from network need to see if the device does get an IP address and ends up in the right VLAN. That was… Continue Reading Jeroen...
Co-organizer of the Microsoft 365 Modern Management Meetup
G'day mates, Today I have a wonderful announcement. I'm proud to announce that as of this month I'm a co-organizer of the Microsoft 365 Modern Management Meetup along with Mark O'Shea, Steven Hosking and Ben Reader. If you manage Windows, iOS, Android, Azure Virtual Desktop and Windows 365 devices with Microsoft management tools, and want to get together with a group of like-minded people to… Continue Reading...
How to connect Viva Goals with Jira
Using Viva Goals in an organization with a dedicated ticketing/tasks system could be tricky. Your employees will need to update tasks in one system and do check-ins with Viva Goals. Using the integration feature you can configure the ticketing/tasks system to automatically update Viva Goals. Employees will use their system and you will get data […] Continue Reading Marcin Siewnicki’s Article on their blog How to connect...
Quick guide to Viva Goals
Microsoft Viva Goals is now generally available. Viva Goals offers a lot of interesting features and integration with external systems, but in this post, I go through the basic setup and configuration. I will show you how to configure an organization and start working with objectives and key results. Plans and Pricing Viva Goals requires […] Continue Reading Marcin Siewnicki’s Article on their blog Quick guide to Viva...
Welcome Viva Engage
Microsoft announced a new member of the Viva suite – Viva Engage. It is a new place where you can build community, share knowledge, build internal networks, and engage with leadership. It will get a dedicated Teams application. Viva Engage is built on top of Yammer and will provide similar features and functionalities. But what […] Continue Reading Marcin Siewnicki’s Article on their blog Welcome Viva Engage Microsoft...
Hide Global Protect VPN client as default sign-in option
With a client I am working on their modern workplace. Well.. it's not that modern, because they still want all the traffic to go to the Internet through their network. And that goes through the Palo Alto Global Protect VPN client. The customer is 👑, we say, right? There is no clear agreement yet whether or not a VPN client should be installed, but until then, we need a VPN client. So the… Continue Reading Jeroen...
Reset your device with a simple app
Problem definition Recently at a customer I was asked if it was possible, in preparation for their new modern workplace, that the end user could reset his device himself. Basically, the same as the famous "wipe" button in Intune. I had indicated that this can be done by means of the following ways: End user goes to the Settings app ➡️ Update & Security ➡️ Recovery ➡️ Get…...
Restrict accounts to sign in to Microsoft Edge
Just a quick, short blog post this time. And it's about how you can restrict in Microsoft Edge that only one of your company's accounts can sign in to sync and no other accounts during the Sync opt-in window. The advantage, at least that's what I think, is that you can create multiple profiles in Microsoft Edge and then you can turn on the sync, so that you keep the same settings everywhere… Continue Reading...
Remove HP bloatware on Windows 10
Welcome to another part of the "Remove bloatware" series. 😁 As you have read in the previous blog post, we still had to deal with the HP bloatware that was still present on the devices. Since my test laptop was already connected to Intune, I could use the Endpoint Manager portal at the devices Discovered apps blade to see the exact description of the installed HP software. Just search for… Continue Reading...
Remove bloatware on Windows 10
In the past year, I worked at a customer, who ordered around 4000 HP laptops to distribute it to their end-users. But something was wrong in the order because they asked for the Windows 10 Signature Edition, but they got the normal Windows 10 Pro edition. But first, what is a Windows 10 Signature Edition? A typical boxed computer purchased from a retailer includes crapware, spyware, toolbars,… Continue Reading Jeroen...
WorkplaceDudes is live!
So… one day you have to do something that is totally out of your comfort zone. And yes… I did something else. First I wrote an exam guide for MD-100, then I became a Microsoft Certified Trainer and now…. this. Since January 28, 2022, me and two other colleagues, Engin Soysal and Richard Sousa Ferreira, started a brand new YouTube channel, called WorkplaceDudes. Jeroen, Engin and Richard...
Updating HP BIOS with HP Connect
Updating HP BIOS with HP Connect Some time ago, I saw a tweet from Nathan Kofahl announcing HP's new tool, called HP Connect for Microsoft Endpoint Manager. At that point, you could sign up for an Private Preview. Since I was interested in that, I had passed on my tenant ID. Early this year, I had a call with Dan Felman (HP). In this call he explained what the possibilities of HP Connect are… Continue Reading Jeroen...
Hyper-V Server 2019 Shielded VMs issues
Recently I brought back life in to one of my old NUCs to install Hyper-V Server 2019. That was the easy part. 😊 But today I wanted to “migrate” VMs from my desktop-NUC to the newly Hyper-V server. So, I made an export of the VM, copied it over to the Hyper-V NUC, did an import of the VM. So far, so good. Then I clicked on the icon to start the VM and within one second, an error… Continue Reading Jeroen...
How to delete a credential from a YubiKey
I have a YubiKey security key, which I'm using daily to logon to different Microsoft Portals (check https://msadmin.center) as an user or as an administrator. So I have several accounts on my YubiKey, for personal accounts and business accounts. Figure 1: Several credentials on my YubiKey Today is my last day at a customer, so I want to delete the customer’s credentials (in the orange… Continue Reading Jeroen...
The new side-project is live!
New year, new launch of a new side-project. First the best wishes for everyone. Back in April ’20, I created a blog post with a list of some Microsoft admin portals, as you can see here. This blog post received a lot of visitors. On the 30th of July ’20, I received an email from Priscilla Geldenhuys from Microsoft, with the following text: Hi Jeroen, great work on consolidating a list… Continue Reading Jeroen...
Are you looking for security keys? Read this comparison
Last month I received two ATKeys from Authentrend Technology, to do some tests with Windows 10 passwordless. The two ATKeys that I received are the ATKey.Pro and the ATKey.Card. I already have the YubiKey 5 NFC and the YubiKey 5C, so it would be nice to start with a comparison between those security keys. Introduction Passwordless Sooner or later, most people will login devices, accounts, and… Continue Reading Jeroen...
How I moved my website to Azure App Service
Recently I moved my Ghost blog from my on-prem Docker instance on a Synology to Azure App Services. I can tell you, sometimes it kept me awake at night. I found some blog posts, but all from some years ago and running with Ghost 1.x and they used the old classic Azure portal. Finally, I found 1 good blog, but with reduced information about how to setup up Ghost as an Azure App Service. Since… Continue Reading Jeroen...