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Servicing Profiles for Microsoft 365 Apps

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  Source: Microsoft If you are deploying and managing Microsoft 365 Apps at an enterprise level, then you should consider implementing a security update policy as well. One can achieve this through many ways depending on the management tool you are using, but in the world of cloud management, organizations will typically deploy and manage Microsoft 365 apps using Intune. However, for greater control, Microsoft has provided a feature called Servicing Profiles which is available through Microsoft 365 admin portal. What are Servicing Profiles? Servicing Profiles lets you automatically deliver monthly Office updates under Monthly Enterprise Channel beginning the second Tuesday of every month. The Monthly Enterprise channel with its delivery cadence of performance and quality updates is the recommended default channel for most organizations. Updates can be targeted to users or groups and can be delivered in waves to limit the impact on the network. One can also set deadlines for the up...

Cloud Site List Management for IE mode

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Back in August 2021, I had published a blog covering the details and the process of configuring Enterprise mode site list  to support Internet Explorer dependent URLs\web apps together with the use of an Azure blob for storing the custom enterprise mode list (EML) in the cloud. With the introduction of  Cloud site list management  in the  Microsoft 365 Admin Portal, the entire configuration has been simplified. Cloud site list management  is a great addition as organizations can now store their own site list directly in Azure cloud. Not only that, they will be able to create, publish, import, export site lists, and audit changes to site list entries all through the Microsoft 365 Admin Center itself. The site lists can then be delivered using GPO, Intune or ConfigMgr. However, there are some prerequisites which need to be considered before one can start using the feature - - Customers must have an Azure AD tenant . - Admins must have Microsoft Edge version 93 or...