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OneDrive for Business – Automatic file rename with invalid characters

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As you know there are quite few unsupported characters in file or folder names for synching with OneDrive for Business (see https://support.office.com/en-us/article/invalid-file-names-and-file-types-in-onedrive-onedrive-for-business-and-sharepoint-64883a5d-228e-48f5-b3d2-eb39e07630fa) This is often a major problem with end-users. Well, the good news is Microsoft is pushing a OneDrive update to automatically help with these unsupported/invalid characters by renaming it for you. This new […]

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Teams – The Teams PowerShell module is now generally available

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After being in preview for about a year, the PowerShell module for Microsoft Teams is now generally available. If you used the preview module, some PowerShell cmdlets did not make it to GA: Get-TeamFunSettings Set-TeamFunSettings Get-TeamGuestSettings Set-TeamGuestSettings Get-TeamMemberSettings Set-TeamMemberSettings Get-TeamMessagingSettings Set-TeamMessagingSettings These have been consolidated into the Get-Team / Set-Team commands The various cmdlets available

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Azure – IP v6 support for VNet is now available in preview

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Support for IP v6 is now available in Azure for virtual networks (vNets). This support allows you for regulatory requirements, better IoT support or better mobility support for your applications. IP v6 support is available as a dual stack, meaning you can take advantage of it without redeploying your vNets It is available in preview

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Exchange Online – Reminder Clutter is going to go away on Jan 31st 2020

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This is a reminder to brink back to your attention that Clutter (the email sorting/classification tool introduced in Exchange Online back in 2017) is going to be turned off for good in January 31st 2020. If you (or your end-users) have been using it, it will then be fully replaced by the Focused Inbox feature.

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Azure – AzCopy is now able to copy data from AWS to Azure Storage (preview)

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A new version of AzCopy (v10) currently in preview allows you to copy data from your Amazon Web Services (AWS) S3 bucket to Azure Storage. If you want to evaluate this capability and performance, get the AzCopy v10 preview client: Windows https://aka.ms/downloadazcopy-v10-windows MacOS https://aka.ms/downloadazcopy-v10-mac Linux https://aka.ms/downloadazcopy-v10-linux Then you can run the below commands to copy

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Skype for Business Online – 3DES support is going to be retired

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A simple reminder that the 3DES cipher support for Skype for Business Online (SfBO) is going to be retired starting July 10th. If you are still using client using 3DES cipher (hopefully not) to connect to Skype for Business Online – like Lync 2010, Lync Phone Edition or Lync Mac 2011 – you will not

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Azure – You can now move a recovery vault to another resource group or another subscription

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You can now move an Azure Recovery Service (ASR) Vault to either a new resource group within the current subscription or to a new subscription. While doing that, you need to know: During vault move across resource groups, both the source and target resource groups are locked preventing the write and delete operations Only admin

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Azure – The Azure Information Protection Unified Labeling feature has reached the general availability

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As announced last year (https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Enterprise-Mobility-Security/Announcing-availability-of-information-protection-capabilities/ba-p/261967), the Azure Information Protection (AIP) Unified Labeling client is now generally available. This client uses the Office 365 Security and Compliance labels and policies, providing you with new protection features like custom sensitive information type or complex condition. In the future, all new features will be developed and integrated only

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SharePoint Online – The new experience administration portal is becoming the default admin portal for SharePoint Online

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As you may be aware a new SharePoint Online (SPO) administration portal has been on preview for quite some time now. This new administration portal experience for SPO is now going to become the default administration portal for SharePoint Online. You will still have the ability (for some time??) to switch back to the previous

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