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Office 365 – Administration App for Windows 10

The long waited “modern/universal” Office 365 Administration application for Windows 10 is now available. You can install it on Windows 10 and Windows 10 Mobile devices from https://www.microsoft.com/store/apps/office-365-admin-universal-beta/9nblggh5lc8f or directly from the Store, search for Office 365 Admin Universal If you are already using the Office 365 Admin app on a mobile device, you will […]

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Office 365 – Mobile client apps will now appears in the My Apps page

Microsoft is deploying an update which will display all mobile application accessing your Office 365 tenant in the My Apps page. End-users will then be able to grant/revoke access for mobile apps from their My Apps page (https://portal.office.com/account/#apps) Administrators will also be able to view which applications are used to access Office 365 tenant as

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Office 365 – New Administration portal is going live soon

As you may know, Microsoft has been redesigning the Office 365 Administration portal for some time now; you may even start using it while in preview. Now, the new Office 365 administration portal is going live soon and will replace the current one. To know more about the new portal, go to https://blogs.office.com/2016/03/04/announcing-the-new-office-365-admin-center/

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Azure – Security Center

Microsoft has introduced a new feature in Microsoft Azure called Security Center. This feature is currently in preview. Security Center will help to prevent, detect, and respond to threats with increased visibility into, and control over, the security of your Azure resources. To access it, connect to your Azure portal – use the new portal

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Exchange / Office 365 – Certificate expiration impacting Exchange 2013 Hybrid

If you are running Exchange 2013 CU8 or earlier and running in Hybrid configuration with Office 365, this will impact you. Exchange 2013 CU9 or later are not impacted. On April 15 2016, the certificate used to secure the communication between your on premises and Exchange Online (Office 365 TLS certificate) will be renew. After

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Azure – Azure RMS logging is now available and enabled for everyone for free

As you may know, Azure RMS has been able to track RMS protected document use (either authorized or unauthorized access). But this capability was available only for premium users. Today Microsoft has announced that the Azure RMS usage tracking feature is now available and activated for everyone for free. No action are required if you

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Azure / Office 365 – New way to configure the directory synchronization schedule

Following the release of a new version of the AAD Connect, Microsoft has changed again the way to configure the directory synchronization schedule and the manual start. Enable the schedule After the installation or the upgrade, the synchronization process has been paused. To resume it, open a PowerShell console and run the following command Set-ADSyncScheduler

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Azure / Office 365 – New version of Azure AD Connect now available

A new version of AAD Connect – Azure Active Directory Connect – is now available. This new version introduces new features such as: Automatic update – currently only for previous installation using Express Settings Support for MFA for administrator account during the installation Change of the sign in method for end-user after installation – to

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Office 365 / Skype for Business – PSTN Conferencing is being launched in 18 new countries

Following a first launch of this Skype for Business PSTN Conferencing some months ago, 18 new countries – Austria, Brazil, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, Greece, Hong Kong, Ireland, Japan, Luxembourg, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, and South Korea – will get the capabilities of using the cloud service to host conferencing with dial-in

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Office 365 – You can now assigned a storage quota to Office 365 Groups

As you may know, Office 365 Groups have been introduced some time ago already. We can view this feature as the replacement of the Mailbox site. That said, when you create an Office 365 Group it creates a distribution list and a SharePoint site to store the files associated with. As this site is a

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