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Exchange – You can now migrate your Public Folders to an Office 365 Groups

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If you are thinking to move away from Exchange Public Folders (either on-premises or online), you have a new potential target available: Office 365 Groups. Yes, you have read right; you can now migrated Exchange Public Folders (from Exchange 2010-2013-2016 on premises or Exchange Online) to an Office 365 Groups. Doing so, you will need […]

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Azure AD Connect – Troubleshooting functionality now available

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With the latest Azure AD Connect (AAD Connect) version (1.1.647.0) published October 19th 2017 (available at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=615771) a new troubleshooting functionality is available. This functionality is going to help you troubleshooting (at first) password synchronization issues and When starting the troubleshooting tool, a PowerShell prompt is launched, then you have to define what you want

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Office 365 – To Do is leaving preview mode

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Starting today the To Do service on Office 365 is leaving the preview mode to be generally available. To Do is a service to help you tracking your tasks. As Office 365 administrator, you need to manage your To Do settings (enable / disable) from your Office 365 administration portal below the Settings\Services & add-ins

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Office 365 – Major updates notification in Message Center

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To follow up and plan for Office 365 updates, you know you can use the Message Center which is notifying you by publishing incoming updates. Now, you also have a specific notification in the Message Center to tell you about when a major update will start reaching your tenant. In the administration portal, go to

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Office 365 – You can now use MFA to connect with PowerShell to Security and Compliance Center

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If you use PowerShell to connect to Office 365 services, and also have MFA enabled, you already know there is always some issue to connect with PowerShell to some of the Office 365 services. While Microsoft is improving the situation, you can now have MFA enabled and connect to the Security and Compliance Center with

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Exchange Online – Incoming changes in Exchange Online Protection to better protect against phishing

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An update, starting rolling out on November 9th, may affect you. This update is changing the way Exchange Online Protection is validating the FROM address. Currently EOP accepts invalid FROM address, undergoing through the spam filtering which then may or may not deliver or mark them as spam. After the update all emails with invalid

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Azure – Azure File Share now available in preview

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A new functionality is available in preview for Azure File Share: the snapshot. Azure File Share snapshot will allow you to store read-only version of files stored on Azure File Share – the same way you can already do on your local Windows client with the versioning. You can enable the snapshot feature on your

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Skype for Business – Modern Auth is now available in preview

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As announced during the last Ignite Conference, Modern Authentication is now available in preview for Skype for Business, allowing MFA, Certificate Based Authentication, Conditional Access and Mobile Application Management for Skype for Business users wherever they are homed, on-premises or online. To join the public preview register at http://aka.ms/skypepreview

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SharePoint Online – SharePoint Migration Tool

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As announced at the Ignite 2017 Conference, a ‘self’ migration tool is currently in preview to help you migrate files from on-premises environments (SharePoint or file shares) to SharePoint Online. As usual, the migration is just the end state; you still need to assess, plan and prepare to ensure your environment is ready for the

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