Author name: Benoit HAMET

Office 365 / Exchange Online – You can now define the attachment types you want to block

An update on Exchange Online is now allowing administrators to define attachment types policy to define what they want to block or authorize. To update your configuration, open your Exchange Online ECP (https://outlook.office365.com/ecp/) and go to the the Protection section to access the Malware filter options. Then either edit the exiting policies or create a

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Microsoft Azure – Enterprise State Roaming in public preview

As you may already know, since Windows 8.x, user settings can synch to OneDrive (consumer) allowing end-users to sync their settings and universal apps data across different devices when they logon with their Microsoft account. Now, this settings is also available in public preview for enterprise users using Windows 10 (at least build 10586) and

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Office 365 – Admin mobile app is updated

The administration mobile app for Office 365 has been updated (or will be within the next few weeks for iOS) This new version provides a new UI, simpler to use, plus new functionalities like resetting password (if you are not using ADFS or if you are using AADConnect with Password synch and password write-back), having

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Office 365 / Skype for Business – Get usage data using PowerShell

Skype for Business Online has been updated to provide usage data using PowerShell. If you want to get usage data, you need to have the Skype for Business Online PowerShell modules installed (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=39366) Then you need to connect to your tenant and use the Get-CsUserSession cmdlet Connect to your tenant – NOTE if your are

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Office 365 – SharePoint Sites has been redesigned and is now called SharePoint Home

Microsoft is deploying an update to SharePoint Online to redesign the so called SharePoint Sites page – known as the SharePoint directory managed by administrators to push SharePoint sites and SharePoint workloads to propose you other sites to follow – to a new SharePoint Home. Accessing this new SharePoint Home is easy, administrators and end-user

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Office 365 – Monitor Office 365 with Operation Management Suite

As you may know, Microsoft is providing a cloud based service to monitor your infrastructure called Operation Management Suite (OMS) which can work as a standalone solution (even if it is not yet at the same level than SCOM) or integrated with SCOM. Now, you can also monitor your Office 365 tenant with OMS. When

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Office 365 – Skype for Business now better integrated with OWA

An update is being deployed on Outlook on the Web (formerly Outlook Web Access) to provide a better integration with Skype for Business. This update will allow you to start IM conversation from the web interface and not only just managing your IM status The first thing is you need to check if you have

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Office 365 / SharePoint Online – Guest are not obliged anymore to create an account

Microsoft is deploying an update on SharePoint Online to make end-user’s life easier. Until then, when you shared content on SharePoint Online with a guest (i.e. someone which is not part of your company and so do not have a corporate account), this guest was obliged to create either an Office 365 account or a

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