June 2021

Teams – New Teams attendance report

A new Teams attendance report for meeting (one time and recurring) and webinar is under way. It will provide to the meeting/webinar organizer details about the attendance directly from the Teams client. The deployment is currently underway and should be completed by end of August. NOTE this feature will be turn off by default. To

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Yammer – You can now apply retention policy to Yammer users and communities messages

As you may know, Yammer became the enterprise social network from Microsoft on Office 365 few years ago. While there has been not much evolution on Yammer over the past few years, there is one big news: you can now apply retention policies on Yammer messages, in preview. To apply a retention policy on Yammer,

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SharePoint Online – Changes coming for PST file retention

As you know, you can enable retention policies on SharePoint Online and OneDrive to keep records of your data for a defined period. Off course, these policies applies to files stored on SharePoint, including PST file. The retained data is kept on a dedicated list called Preservation Hold Library within the SharePoint/OneDrive site; which means

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Exchange Online Protection – It is now easier to enable the ‘First Contact Safety Tip’

As you may already know, Exchange Online Protection has been able to provide a ‘First Contact Safety Tip’ to display a notification to end-user when they receive an email from somebody for the first time to make them pay more attention in case of potential phishing.   Well, until then, this ‘First Contact Safety Tip’

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Intune – You can now offboard your hierarchy

As you know, System Center Configuration Manager Current Branch (SCCM CB) – aka Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Manager – can be integrated with Intune (aka Microsoft Endpoint Manager) to provide hybrid device management capabilities, also called co-management. This integration is called tenant attach onboarding. Well, while this hybrid device management provides lot of value for SCCM

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Teams – Chat formatting has improved and now offer “code snippet”

As you may already know, Teams has been allowing you to format your message in chat using the Format option Well, the formatting options have evolved and now offer a ‘code snippet’ formatting to allow you sharing code while keeping the language-based color syntax   This is quite handy if you have to share code

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Azure AD – New way to find the BitLocker recovery key

As you know when you enable BitLocker with Intune you have the option (highly recommended by the way) to save the recovery key into Azure AD. Well, when you have to get the recovery key for a device and you don’t know the device name (which may happen if you need the recovery during a

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Teams – The Teams Windows client now provides Call Health information

As you know, Teams heavily relies on Internet connection for meetings and call. Calls (with or without video enabled) can be badly impacted by the network connectivity. Well, to help end-user to have network quality information to share with their internal support team in case of bad quality calls, the Teams client on Windows now

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