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Office 365–Office 365 Groups now support multi domain and ability to update privacy type

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Microsoft has deployed (or currently being deployed) an update to the Office 365 Groups feature to allow customer to use multi domain in Groups as well as the ability to update the privacy type (public and private) AFTER the creation.   Multi Domain Support The multi domain support is added and available only through PowerShell. […]

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Microsoft Intune – Enrollment support change for iOS

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In the coming months, Microsoft Intune will be updated to allow only iOS 8.x or later to be enrolled. Existing enrolled devices will not be impacted and will continue to be managed for a limited time but it will not be possible to enroll new devices running older version of iOS. As usual, this is

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Yammer – External Groups is coming

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This update is being rolled out over the week. Yammer is being updated to allow end-users to create Yammer groups with external users. This feature called External Groups does not impact existing groups; if you want to have external user added, you must create a new external group Create an External Group Logon to Yammer

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Exchange Online – Additional safety tips in Outlook and Outlook on the Web

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As you may know, Exchange Online is already protected with Exchange Online Protection (protection you can improve with the E5 license and Advanced Threats Management). That said, the EOP security is already quite good and performing well, but even with this, sometime when a message is being put into the Junk Email folder, the end-user

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Yammer – Yammer User Profile is now using Azure Active Directory

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Starting today, the Yammer User Profile feature is now using user’s details from Azure Active Directory to populate profile on Yammer. This evolution follows the announcement of the depreciation of Yammer DirSync (see http://blog.hametbenoit.info/2015/11/25/yammer-yammer-sso-and-yammer-dirsync-are-being-deprecated-and-removed/) If you were still using Yammer DirSync, you should stop using it and ensure you are using the latest version of

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Office 365 / Exchange Online – Out of Office is becoming smarter

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Office 365 has made Exchange Out Of Office smarter Now, when you set an Out Of Office with an end date, Exchange Online will be able to automatically decline request meetings which fall into this out of office period. You only have to define an end date when you set your Out Of Office. Enjoy

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Skype for Business – Skype for Business Cloud Connector

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It has been announced some time ago already but we have been waiting for the official release. This is it, you can now download the Skype for Business Cloud Connector to connect your existing PSTN with Office 365 like this Download link http://aka.ms/getcce Once you have downloaded and installed it, follow the steps detailed here

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Office 365 – Office 365 Groups become more connected

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Microsoft has updated the Office 365 Groups functionality to include connectors with social networks like Twitter or web applications like Dynamics CRM. By default this feature is turned on. If you want to disable it, you must use PowerShell $cred = Get-Credential $Session = New-PSSession -ConfigurationName Microsoft.Exchange -ConnectionUri https://outlook.office365.com/powershell-liveid/ -Credential $cred -Authentication Basic -AllowRedirection Import-PSSession

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Azure – Azure AD Identity Protection is available in preview

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Identity Protection is a new feature of Azure AD that gives organizations around the world a previously unavailable level of security for their cloud identities. Azure AD Identity Protection helps prevent the use of compromised accounts using industry leading machine learning (ML) based real time detection and automated mitigation, helping protect all of the cloud

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Yammer – Domains management across Office 365

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Finally this is it; you can now manage your Yammer domains from the Office 365. This means if you already have additional domains associated with Office 365, they will be automatically added into your Yammer network. If you are adding or removing domains from Office 365, this will be automatically added/removed from Yammer. No more

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