2020

Office 365 – A change in Chrome may break your sites

Google Chrome is introducing a major/breaking change in the way websites and cookies are handled with the coming Chrome 80, planned for released later on Feb 4th, 2020. It is important you prepare yourself and be ready for this change. What can you do? While you are testing and evaluating the potential impact this new […]

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Teams – New and simpler way to search for apps

As you know, Microsoft Teams is an extensible platform, providing integration with other systems through Teams Apps. When you want to add an Apps to your Teams/Channel, you usually use the ‘More added apps’ or ‘Apps’ menus Now, you can also do the same directly from the Teams bar (also known as the conversation bar)

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Teams – Better integration with SharePoint

The Microsoft Teams client got a most welcome update, providing a better integration with SharePoint. Indeed, with this update, when you browse the Files tab you now have a similar toolbar and views option; you can now directly from Teams use the OneDrive client to sync/cache the content of your Teams channel you can now

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Azure AD – Don’t forget to exclude the directory synchronization accounts from conditional access

The following issue occurred for one of my customers after enabling MFA for all users. The directory synchronization stopped working. The above situation may not occur often as usually you are excluding trusted locations (aka your corporate network public endpoints) from applying conditional policies – especially when enabling MFA – and your Azure AD Connect

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Outlook Web Access – A new look when accessing OWA using your mobile web browser

The following is not about the Outlook Mobile app but about Outlook Web Access (OWA), also known as Outlook on the Web, when accessed using your mobile web browser. A new look is available for OWA is now available and turned on by default, but you can opt-out at any time by switching the toggle.

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Azure – You can now view the carbon footprint of your Azure resources

As you know, sustainability and carbon footprint are now an important subject and companies are now looking to reduce it. That said, how can you reduce your carbon footprint if you don’t even know from where you are starting Well, Microsoft is now providing a PowerBI dashboard to help you get details about the carbon

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Azure – You can now use multi-resource selection when viewing metrics

When you want to analyse performance of your Azure resources when using metrics you may also want to do a comparison with other resources. This is now possible (currently in preview for a limited set of Azure resource type). To start using the multi-resource selection, you need to logon to your Azure portal (https://portal.azure.com/) and

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OneDrive for Business – Disable Windows permission inheritance when syncing read-only content

As you may know, when you are synching content using OneDrive for Business client on your Windows device, ‘local’ Windows permissions are inherited. With this new configuration setting, you can now disable this inheritance for folder(s) with read-only access. NOTE this ‘read-only’ setting will not change permission on SharePoint It is not recommended to enable

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Intune – the Managed Browser is going to be deprecated and removed

As it has been already announced earlier, the Intune Managed Browser is going to be deprecated and removed to be replaced by Microsoft Edge Mobile. Starting January 27, 2020 Intune will no longer support the Managed Browser. Starting February 1, 2020 the Intune Managed Browser will no longer be available in the application store for

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Skype for Business Online – Retirement scheduled for July 2021

It has been announced some time ago already, Skype for Business Online is being retired on July 31, 2021. After this date, Skype for Business Online (SfBO) will no longer be available or accessible. If you are using Skype for Business Online, you need to plan now your migration to Microsoft Teams. Between now and

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