2020

Teams – You can pin apps by policy

Microsoft Teams now allow administrator to define policies to pin apps to their end-users (turned on by default). This policy setting also allows administrator to disable the ‘pin app’ capability. As remined, an app can be pinned in Teams by following these steps: Access the search an app function (the 3 dots – … – […]

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Teams – You can now get notified when a colleague joins Teams

A new notification setting has appear in Teams, let you know configure notification when a colleague joins Teams. This notification is set to Banner and Email by default. To manage how you want to get notified, just go to your Teams Settings menu and reach out the Notification section to configure the Highlights for you\Colleague

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Teams – Teams now supports the ATP Safe Links

As you may know, Office 365 comes (either as part of your subscription – E5 – or add-on) with an Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) solution, which analyse links being sent by email or inside Office document, called ATP Safe Links Well, the ATP Safe Links now supports Teams, which means any link being send through

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Office 365 – A refreshed Settings experience in the Office 365 Administration Portal

As you already know, the Office 365 Administration Portal (https://admin.microsoft.com/) is your one-stop shop to manage your Office 365 services (from associated domains, to users/groups or even service settings). That said, it has been sometime a little bit difficult to find the configuration menu for some specific settings you had to configure or update. Well,

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Windows 10 – You can now use your Windows PC to make call with your mobile phone

You may already know the Your Phone companion apps for Windows 10 which can be used to send text message directly from your PC (and off course read the received ones): Windows 10 App store: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/p/your-phone/9nmpj99vjbwv Android Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.microsoft.appmanager Well the Your Phone companion app has been updated and is now allowing you to

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Teams – You can now apply Legal Holds on Teams

As  ore and more activities occur on Microsoft Teams, the Office 365 Compliance team is now providing ability to put on Legal Hold Teams content (including private channels) on Legal Hold when you need to prevent content tampering. To do so,, logon to your Office 365 Compliance portal (either https://protection.office.com/ or https://compliance.microsoft.com/ [the new Compliance

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Windows – LDAP signing going to be mandatory in March 2020

In March 2020, Microsoft is going to release a security update for Windows which will require that all LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol) request to be signed, meaning all unsigned (and as such unsecure) LDAP request will be rejected by Windows Active Directory servers (AD DS or AD LDS). You need to act now to

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Exchange Online – It is now easier to allow end-users to report message and provide customized message

Exchange and Security & Compliance administrators now have the ability to enable the ‘Report Message’ add-in from the Security and Compliance portal (https://protection.office.com/) through the Threat Management\Policy blade In addition of this move, you can also configure a customized message which will be displayed before and/or after submitting message using the add-in.

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Office 365 – Office 365 Pro is changing the default search engine

Coming with the version 2002 of Office 365 Pro Plus, a browser extension is going to be installed on Chrome to make Bing the default search engine. This change is scheduled to be deployed starting February 2020 for the Targeted channel, March 2010 for the Monthly channel and with the next release for Semi-Annual channel.

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Azure – Azure Secure Score has been simplified (preview)

By now you should know Azure Secure Score (ASS), the Azure Security feature which helps you review the security recommendations and prioritize them for you. Well, Azure Secure Score has been simplified and is now in preview. To start using this new and simplified Azure Secure Score, logon to your Azure portal (https://portal.azure.com/) and reach

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