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Azure AD – You can now create your own custom administration roles

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As you may already know, you can grant administrative access to Azure Active Directory (AAD) and associated resources using built-in administration role. Well, this is going one step further as an update has been deployed on Azure Active Directory which let you create your own custom administration role. During the preview, this capability is available […]

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Teams – Teams is getting Advanced Threat Protection support

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As you may already know, Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) has been supported and integrated with SharePoint and OneDrive for quite some time now. Well, good news, Microsoft Teams is now getting ATP support too, providing better security for files uploaded. If you already have turned on ATP for SharePoint and OneDrive, you have nothing to

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SharePoint Online – You can now define sharing link expiration on per site basis

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As you may already know, you can define an expiration time (between 1 to 720 days) for anyone sharing link (aka anonymous link) from the SharePoint Administration portal   This setting applies to all SharePoint Online site without any exception. Well, this is changing as now you can set a ‘custom’ expiration time for specific

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Azure – You can now deploy virtual machines on a dedicated host in Azure (preview)

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You can now deploy your virtual machines in Azure using a dedicated host. This means your VM’s will be deployed on single tenant physical servers. This will help customers to address compliance and regulatory requirements. This offer also supports Azure Hybrid Benefits. You can get the pricing of this new offer from https://aka.ms/ADHPricing To start

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Azure RMS – Azure AD RMS PowerShell CMDlets are going to be deprecated

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As you know you have been able to manage Azure AD Rights Management Service (AADRM) with PowerShell for quite some time using the corresponding PowerShell module. As since then, Azure AD RMS has evolved to become Azure Information Protection, these PowerShell CMDlets will be deprecated by July 15th 2020. After this date, the Azure AD

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Exchange Online – New CMDlet for Room mailboxes and better booking capabilities

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Room management and booking has been improved in Exchange Online with the add of new CMDlet to set additional properties (like features – such as video and/or audio capabilities, building and/or floor location and many other). These new properties can then be used by end-users when booking a room for a meeting. The update deployment

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Skype for Business Online – Will be retired by July 31 2021

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It has just been announced that Skype for Business Online (SfBO) will be retired by July 31 2021. Starting September 2019, new Office 365 tenant will be on-boarded directly to Microsoft Teams. This announcement has no impact for Skype (consumer) or Skype for Business On-Premises. You can get the complete announcement here https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Microsoft-Teams-Blog/Skype-for-Business-Online-to-Be-Retired-in-2021/ba-p/777833?fbclid=IwAR0TvAbcRBZAnGm5fxpaEoYsaPvHfHyH1VyEMEE35AQ5tqAIwDH1elBiodc

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Teams – You can now manage who can bypass the lobby

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Microsoft Teams meeting policy has been updated to allow you to manage who can bypass the lobby. You can update your existing (and/or default) meeting policies to define who can bypass the lobby, including dial-in users if required by accessing the Teams administration portal (https://admin.teams.microsoft.com) and reaching the Meetings\Meeting policies section And then edit the

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Exchange – Outlook Web Access can now automatically translate incoming emails

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This new feature is only available if you are using the new Outlook on the Web (aka Outlook Web Access) interface (see https://t.co/wmPtK7ntgM). When you receive an email which is not written in the language defined for your mailbox (see your regional settings), Exchange Online is now able to perform an inline translation. You can

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