Author name: Benoit HAMET

Exchange Online – Meeting with more than 500 attendees can now be updated/cancelled

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As you should be aware, Exchange Online has a 500 recipients limit per message (see https://technet.microsoft.com/en-au/library/exchange-online-limits.aspx#Receiving%20and%20sending%20limits). When sending request meeting to a distribution list, the DL count as 1 recipient but may contains more than 500 members. If each member respond to this request meeting, they are added automatically as 1 attendee, which ultimately may […]

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SharePoint Online – The Newsfeed is going away

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​As you know, SharePoint Online came with an initial enterprise social feature called Newsfeed. This is (used to be) the default social feature on SharePoint Online but you were able to switch to Yammer. In June 2018, the Newsfeed will be set to read only for existing tenant and will be removed for new tenant.

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Office 365 – New (and better way?) to manage Office 365 services IP addresses updates

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Microsoft has just released a preview of a web service to help (and improve?) customer experiences with managing Office 365 Services IP address upgrades. You already well know the recommendations/requirements/best practices in term of accessing Office 365 Services as well as the public website listing (and providing RSS feed and XML/PAC files) here http://aka.ms/o365ip. Now,

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Teams – MSI packages are now available to deploy Teams

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Since Microsoft has released Microsoft Teams, there has been a need for MSI package to deploy it in enterprise environment using software deployment solution (such as SCCM). Until then, there has been lot of workarounds available on the internet to manage such corporate deployment needs. Now, Microsoft has released MSI packages (both 32 and 64

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Office – An alert is displayed when BCC recipients reply to all

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The Outlook version coming with the Office Click To Run is now showing a notification when a blind carbon copy (Bcc) recipient is reply to all. The notification alerts the user he receive the mail he is replying to as a blind copy and so if he replies to all, all other recipients will know

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SCCM – Updated client customization interface

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With the latest update for SCCM Current Branch, the customization of the Software Center has been updated to provide a better administrator customization experience. With this update, when you customize your Software Center you have an immediate preview of the change – you are not obliged anymore to deploy the customization to test it You

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Azure – You can now connect to Azure Virtual Machine using serial console

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It has been a long waited capability; but now, you can connect to an Azure virtual machine using serial console to perform virtual machine boot troubleshooting. As if you had a direct screen/keyboard attached to the server in the Azure datacenter. This is currently in preview. To take advantage of it, there are few prerequisites:

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SCCM – You can now install multiple application at once from the Software Center

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With the latest SCCM Current Branch update, end-user can now install multiple applications at once from the Software Center. To do so, just ensure you have deployed the latest SCCM client (5.00.8634.1007) and launch the Software Center. Then just enable the multi-select mode, check the box before all the applications you want to install and

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SCCM – You can now choose to automatically upgrade superseded application

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The latest update for SCCM Current Branch (updated version 5.00.8634.1000) is now available. As usual, if you want to force the detection and deploy it earlier you can use the script available here https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/ConfigMgr-1802-Enable-4c8c0003. But that’s not what I want to announce. As part of this update, you have the choice to automatically upgrade any

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