Author name: Benoit HAMET

Office 365 – You can now set a time zone when opening a support request

This is a feature which should have been there since the beginning of Office 365; you can now define a time zone, as well as a secondary language, when you open a support request on Office 365. This does not seem to be a huge improvement but talk to people working in a multinational with […]

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Teams – Voicemail settings are now available in Teams client

While Microsoft Teams is scheduled to take over Skype for Business Online, Teams client is closing slowly but surely features gap with SfB. A new settings to let end-users manage their voicemail has appear in Teams client. To manage your voicemail settings – including your greeting message – open the Teams client and open the

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Azure – Get your recommendations by email as soon as they are available (preview)

As you know, Azure has a feature called Azure Advisor to help you getting the most and securing your Azure resources. Well, Azure Advisor has been updated to provide you a notification feature to send an email alert as soon as you have a new recommendation. To start using it, logon to your Azure portal

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Security – You can now backup your Microsoft Authenticator application

It has been a long awaited feature for the Microsoft Authenticator application: being able to backup your multi factor accounts and recover them. Well, the wait is now over as you can now backup your MFA accounts and off course recover them when reusing the same account. It works for both personal and work profiles

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Azure – You can apply a policy to ensure the Log Analytics agent is being deployed on your virtual machine (Preview)

As you may know Azure provides a quite powerful monitoring solution for your Azure environment as well your on-premises one called Azure Log Analytics. This Log Analytics capability is also used by Azure Security Center to centralize security-related logs. The use of Azure Log Analytics requires to have a local agent (Log Analytics Agent, also

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Teams – Administrator can define Caller ID policies

As you know, you can integrate Teams with your voice systems (either on-premises using PSTN or using Microsoft Voice or a third party solution). By default, when a Teams user, enabled for voice, make a call, his phone number is being displayed. Teams administrators can define Caller ID policies to manage how user’s phone numbers

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Teams – Your calendar in Teams has been refreshed

Ok, this is not THE killer feature but still worth mentioning it. Your calendar in the Teams client has been refreshed and is no longer limited to display 1 day; you can display 1 day (still), your work week (aka Monday to Friday) or the full week by using the drop down menu available top

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Azure – You can trigger Azure File Sync synchronization when changes are done on Azure side

As you may already know, you can synchronize your on-premises file shares to Azure File Share using Azure File Sync. While changes made on your on-premises side are quickly synchronized to Azure File Share, this is not the same story when changes are made from Azure File Share; you have to wait the 24 hours

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Azure – You now have a centralized hub to manage all Azure SQL resources

As you know, Microsoft Azure provides you the ability to host SQL resources, from SQL database to Elastic Pools or SQL running on a virtual machine (not comprehensive). This makes it a little bit difficult to have a comprehensive view of all the Azure SQL resources you may be running as you have to switch

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Office 365 – It is now simpler to submit suspicious content to Microsoft for investigation

As you may already know, with Office 365 and Exchange Online you already had to the possibility to report suspicious content (in that case email) by using the Report Message add-in (an the other way around too if an email was identified as spam but was not). Well, now it is becoming simpler for Office

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