Author name: Benoit HAMET

OneDrive for Business – Shared by me view

A new view is being deployed on OneDrive for Business to help you identify all content you have shared. This new view is simply called Shared by me (as you would imagine ) To access this view, logon to your OneDrive for Business space using a web browser and reach the Shared view On top […]

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Office 365 – IMPORTANT NOTICE – Office documents will now open in Edit mode in the browser

This is going to be a potential issue. An update is being deployed (already done for First release tenant) which is going to open Office document in Edit mode when you use the web browser (the Office Online license). You need to communicate to your end-users to be careful when opening an Office document with

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Teams – You can recover deleted channel from Teams

After allowing administrator to recover deleted Teams, Microsoft Teams has been updated and now allows you (and I mean end-user here) to recover deleted Teams channel for up to 21 days after the channel has been deleted. To recover a channel, the Teams owner needs to go to the Teams settings (Manage Team) Then you

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Teams – You can now invite non corporate user as guest

You may already know it has been possible to invite external users to your Microsoft Teams but this was limited to corporate account – meaning external users with Office 365 account. Now, this has been finally extended to allow you to invite also external users with Microsoft Account. NOTE please note the updated feature is

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Office 365 – Naming convention for Office 365 Groups is available in preview

We already had a group naming policy available for Exchange security mail-enabled or distribution groups BUT this did not apply to Office 365 Group name. Starting today, and in preview, a group naming policy is available for Office 365 Groups; this will apply to Office 365 Groups AND Teams NOTE this functionality requires to have

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Office 365 – You can simulate an attack on your Office 365 (preview)

UPDATE March 10, 2018 – I have been informed the invitation code to join the preview portal is no longer valid Even if we all know Office 365 is quite secure by design, you may want to evaluate by yourself the security level of your tenant. While you already have the Secure Score (https://securescore.office.com/) functionality

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Intune – Enable Windows Redeployment from logon screen

Starting with Window 10 build 1709, it is possible for administrators to re-initialize Windows 10 devices to remove personal files and settings and revert the device to an original state, while keeping the device enrollment. Enable the policy To make Windows Automatic Deployment available from the logon screen, you must first enable the policy; which

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Azure – Hybrid Cloud Print service

Hybrid Cloud Printer Service is a new feature available on Windows Server 2016 allowing you to setup a print server/service available not only to AD Joined devices but also to Azure AD Joined devices. Using corporate print servers while using an Azure AD Joined device can be challenging for both end-users and IT staff. With

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Azure – New role available in Azure AD for Azure Information Protection management

A new Directory Role is now available (in preview) to delegate Azure Information Protection management. This new role – Information Protection Administrator – allow you the delegation of the AIP management, granting permissions to configure policies labels and settings, configure and manage AIP templates or activate/deactivate AIP functionality. As usual you can grant this role

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Exchange Online – You can now manage calendar delegation with PowerShell

The MailboxFolderPermission cmdlet for Exchange Online is getting improved with the adding of a new parameter (SharingPermissionFlags) to let you manage calendar delegation. With this parameter, which only applies to Calendar folder when using the Editor access right, you can set the user as a delegate (as you do when using the Delegate Access from

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