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Office 365 – Azure AD Connect now support managed service account

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The latest version of Azure AD Connect (1.1.484.0 available at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=615771) now supports managed service account to connect/synchronize your Active Directory. NOTE to take advantage of this new feature you need to perform a clean install; you can not upgrade your existing instance. When using the custom installation mode, you need to first create the […]

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SharePoint Online – Speed up the authentication process

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When a user is accessing a SharePoint Online, he is first redirected to Azure AD for authentication. If the company is using ADFS to manage authentication, Azure AD then redirected to the ADFS server for authentication. This can lead to slow authentication process for end-user (external users when sharing content with them). With SharePoint Online

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SharePoint Online – Support for # and % characters is going to be rolled out

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We all know (or should know) the restrictions with SharePoint and SharePoint Online when it comes to supported characters in folders or files name. Microsoft is releasing the pressure by rolling out an update which will allow the use of # and % characters in file and folder names – not yet for document library.

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Office 365 – You can now set retention policy on Office 365 Groups

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You can now set a retention policy on Office 365 Groups to comply with your retention policies; as you can already do it on Exchange mailboxes or SharePoint sites. NOTE it can take up to 1 day to get the policy applied To set a retention policy on Office 365 Groups, logon to the Security

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Exchange Online – Copy Sent Items to both principal and delegate

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Microsoft is currently deploying an update which will copy all sent items sent as/on behalf of user principal to the principal Sent Items folder as it is the case for some time for shared mailbox. To manage this feature, you need to use PowerShell to connect to Exchange Online and update the MessageCopyForSentAsEnabled or MessageCopyForSendOnBehalfEnabled

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Office 365 – You can now recover deleted Office 365 Groups

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If you have an Office 365 Groups being deleted – either by admin actions or group owner – you can recover the deleted group for a 30 days period. To recover a deleted Office 365 Groups, you need to use Azure Active Directory PowerShell v2 Preview (available here https://www.powershellgallery.com/packages/AzureAD/2.0.0.98) Install AAD PowerShell v2 Preview Open

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SharePoint Online – Conditional access “limited access” now in preview

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The preview of limited access for SharePoint Online and OneDrive for Business is now available. This functionality will help you to limit data leaked from SPO or OneDrive for Business by restricting access to the service from unmanaged device using browser access only – meaning users accessing SPO and/or OneDrive for Business using a BYOD

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Azure AD Connect – More flexibility with synched duplicate attributes

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UPDATED 30/03/2017 – Adding notification email notifying the activation of the feature Starting April 19th, a new feature will be available to eliminate frictions caused by duplicate synched attributes.   This feature called Duplicate Attribute Resiliency will authorize objects synchronization and provisioning on Office 365 even if there is a duplicate UPN or ProxyAddresses.  

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Live Meeting – Office Live Meeting is going to be shutdown

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If you are still using Office Live Meeting – the first Microsoft online meeting service, precursor of Skype for Business Meeting Broadcast – you need to start thinking of moving to a newer solution like Skype for Business or Skype for Business Meeting Broadcast as the service is going to be shutdown on December 31,

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