Author name: Benoit HAMET

Office 365 – New scheduling assistant is coming….

A new scheduling assistant is coming to you; apparently this may replace the Outlook add-in ‘Find Time’. This is using Cortana. Setup This new scheduling assistant is currently in preview; so first thing you have to do is to connect to https://calendar.help/ and request an invitation You will need to grant the permission to the […]

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Office 365 – You can now manage domain guest access for Groups

An update is being rolled out to let you manage allowed/blocked domains for guest access to Office 365 Groups. After allowing guest access to Groups, Microsoft now helps securing this access by allowing administrators to define a list of allowed/blocked domains. This feature is not available (yet?) using the Office 365 administration portal but with

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Office 365 – New sign in experience

A new sign-in experience to logon to Microsoft cloud services (Azure / Office 365) is being rolled out. The next time you will logon to Microsoft cloud services you may notice this notification on the top right If you click on the Try it now link you will then get the new login experience or

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SharePoint Online – Easily getting back to Modern Experience

As you may know, SharePoint Online now has 2 end-user experience: Modern Classic Until then it was easy to from Modern to Classic experience but it was a little bit less easy to get back from Classic to Modern Now, it is becoming easier; an update is being deployed to provided a shortcut to get

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SCCM – It is now easier to manage Internet clients

With the release of the build 1706 of System Center Configuration Manager Current Branch, it is now easier to manage Internet clients. Windows 10 Azure AD Joined devices do not need anymore certificate to authenticate against your SCCM. The need for client authentication certificates is now removed (there is some prerequisites) and you can now

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SCCM – Build 1706 of System Center Configuration Manager current branch is available

The latest build (1706) for System Center Configuration Manager has been released. It is being rolled out globally but as usual if you want to get it early you can use this script (https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/ConfigMgr-1706-Enable-9dd40f68) to force SCCM to get the update. After running the script you will get the build being downloaded As part of

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Yammer – The Yammer application is now available

The new Yammer application for Windows is now available The next time you logon to your Yammer network, check the bottom right of the window to get the application (you can also go directly here https://aka.ms/yammer_desktop_ia32) Once installed the application will start automatically and may ask you to logon; a desktop shortcut and in the

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Microsoft Team – Recover a deleted Team

As you may know Microsoft Team is “chat-based” collaboration tool part of Office 365. So if you are using Microsoft Teams, you may have as an administrator to recover a deleted Team. As for many recovery process with Office 365, this all start with PowerShell. Prerequisites First you need to have the preview of AzureAD

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SharePoint Online – The ‘Sync’ button will now use the new OneDrive sync client

Starting mi-August, the synchronization option available on SharePoint Online library will be updated to use the new OneDrive sync client. Currently the ‘Sync’ button is still pointing to the previous OneDrive for Business sync client. If your users are still using the old sync client at this time, the next time they will be upgraded

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Skype for Business – Cloud Connector Edition 2.0 is now available in GA

The new release (version 2.0) of the Skype for Business Cloud Connector Edition is now available in general availability. For those who do not know what is CCE, this is a virtual appliance to connect your on-premises PBX with your users hosted in the cloud. So if you are already using CCE, the auto update

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