Join us on Tuesday, February 6th, 2024 for our latest “What’s New in Microsoft EDU” webinar! This webinar will also be recapping the big announcements we made at the Bett conference in London in late January. These 30 minute webinars are put on by the Microsoft Education Product Management group and happen once per month, this month both 8:00am Pacific Time and 4:00pm Pacific time to cover as many global time zones as possible around the world.  And don’t worry – we’ll be recording these and posting on our Microsoft Education YouTube channel in the new “What’s New in Microsoft EDU” playlist, so you’ll always to able to watch later or share with others!

Here is our February 2024 webinar agenda:

What’s New in AI
What’s new in Microsoft Teams for EDU 
What’s new in Microsoft 365 EDU
AMA – Ask Microsoft EDU Anything (Q&A)

How to sign up

OPTION 1: February 6th, Tuesday @ 8:00am Pacific Tim Register here
OPTION 2: February 6th, Tuesday @ 4:00pm Pacific Time: Register here

Send us your questions ahead of time by adding yours into this form: WNIEDUWebinarFeb24QnA

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A new dashboard is added to the console under monitoring workspace which shows the diagnosis of the software update issues in your environment. You can fix software update issues based on CM troubleshooting documentation.

Introducing Centralized Search box: Effortlessly Find What You Need in the Console!

Users can now use the global search box in CM console which streamlines the search experience and centralizes access to information. This enhances the overall usability, productivity and effectiveness of CM. Users no longer need to navigate through multiple nodes or sections/ folders to find information they require, saving valuable time and effort.

Microsoft Azure Active Directory rebranded to Microsoft Entra ID

Starting Configuration Manager version 2403, Microsoft Azure Active Directory is renamed to Microsoft Entra ID within Configuration Manager.

With the introduction of retry count in UI administrators while deploying the “Install Software Package” via Dynamic variable with “Continue on error” unchecked to clients, won’t be notified with task sequence failures even if package versions on the distribution point are updated.

With this version of CM Configuration Manager Cloud Management Gateway (CMG) Virtual Machine Scale introduces enabling of Auto-Image Patching for seamless and automated updates to ensure your environment stays current and secure with this efficient solution.

With this version of Configuration Manager, the Windows 11 readiness dashboard will show charts for Windows 23H2.

HTTP-only communication is deprecated, and support is removed from this version of Configuration Manager. Please enable HTTPS or Enhanced HTTP for client communication.

The option to upgrade Configuration Manager 2403 is blocked if you’re running cloud management gateway V1 (CMG) as a cloud service (classic).All CMG deployments should use a virtual machine scale set.

Starting 2403, Windows Server 2012/2012 R2 operating system site system roles aren’t supported in any CB releases.

Improvements to Bitlocker

This release includes the following improvements to Bitlocker:

Based on your feedback, this feature ensures proper verification of key escrow and prevents message drops. We now validate whether the key is successfully escrowed to the database, and only on successful escrow we add the key protector.
This feature prevents a potential data loss scenario where BitLocker is protecting the volumes with keys that are never backed up to the database, in any failures to escrow happens.

Update 2401 for Technical Preview Branch is available in the Microsoft Configuration Manager Technical Preview console. For new installations, the 2401 baseline version of Microsoft Configuration Manager Technical Preview Branch is available on the link:  CM2401TP-Baseline or from Eval center 

Technical Preview Branch releases give you an opportunity to try out new Configuration Manager features in a test environment before they are made generally available.

We would love to hear your thoughts about the latest Technical Preview! Send us feedback directly from the console.

Thanks,

The Configuration Manager team

Configuration Manager Resources:

Documentation for Configuration Manager Technical Previews

Try the Configuration Manager Technical Preview Branch

Documentation for Configuration Manager

Configuration Manager Forums

Configuration Manager Support

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