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Exchange Online – A new administration role is being deployed: Quarantine Administrator

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This was a missing role since the beginning of Office 365 and Exchange Online to allow the delegation of the administration of the quarantine. Before you had to create your very own Exchange Role with the correct permissions – Mail Recipient, Message Tracking, Transport Hygiene and View-Only Configuration (which was not easy to find as […]

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Azure – Service Map is now available in more region

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You may already know Azure Service Map, an add-on component (Dependency agent)  running on top of the Azure Log Analytics agent providing you more insight for your applications/servers by analysing connectivity flows. It is also recommended to use it when using Azure Migrate to assess your on-premises servers when preparing for Azure migration. To know

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Office – New GPO settings available to give easier access to Insider option

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As you know, Office 365 Pro Plus (aka Office Click to Run) can be enabled to join the Office Insider program in order to get early access to new features – like the Windows Insider program for Windows 10. Until then, application administrators did not had much choice to enable/disable and lock down the access

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Office 365 – You can now get email notification from the Service Health dashboard

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As you already know, Office 365 provides a service dashboard helping you to be aware of any service issue. That said, this service dashboard may be unavailable when the issue is affecting the authentication process (either authentication itself or MFA services). Well, you can now have email notification when some services are degraded or are

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Azure – The azure portal menu has been refreshed

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The Azure portal menu (aka your favourites menu) has been refreshed and now can be hidden, or flyout, giving you more space for your dashboard. The next time you logon to your Azure portal (https://portal.azure.com) you will be greaten by the below prompt asking you to choose between the flyout (Ok) or the docking mode.

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Teams – You can now post in multiple channel at once

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Sometime, you need to post message to multiple Teams channels. Until now you had to re write all the time (or a copy/paste) your post across all the channels you wanted to post to. Well, good news, Teams now allows you to post in multiple channel at once. To do that, open your Teams client

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Exchange / Azure Information Protection – Sensitivity labels can now be applied when using OWA and/or Outlook Mobile

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As you may know Azure Information Protection (AIP) provides the capability to define and apply sensitivity labels on documents and emails (when using Outlook client). Good new, the AIP sensitivity labelling capability is now available also on Outlook Web Access (OWA) – aka Outlook on the Web – and Outlook Mobile. When you write an

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Exchange Online – You can now RSVP instantly when using OWA

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After becoming available on Outlook Mobile (see https://t.co/1LcJGaBI8j), you can now also instantly reply to an meeting request when you are using Outlook Web Access (aka Outlook on the Web). Just select the meeting invite and you will immediately get the options to reply (Yes, Maybe, No, Propose another time with the possibility to add

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Azure AD – You can now enable default security settings for Azure AD

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DISCLAIMER it needs to be carefully review before implementing as it will enforce the security configuration. Microsoft has release an option to simply and automatically enabled a default security configuration on Azure AD; this includes: Enforcement of MFA for privileged accounts – all administrator types account), All users are required to be registered for MFA

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Outlook Mobile – You can now use SMIME on Outlook Mobile

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After being able to add a shared mailbox on Outlook mobile (see https://t.co/MkG56cl1TT), another long awaited feature is now available on your Outlook mobile application: the use of SMIME. To start using, you need of course an SMIME certificate – I will not go in details there on how or where to get SMIME certificates,

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