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Windows Mobile – A new build of the Windows Mobile 10 is now available

A new build (10.0.10586.29) of Windows Mobile 10 has been released and is now available through Windows Update As part of the improvements: You will see additional improvements in upgrade experience, including devices with limited free space, map rendering on update, and RCS enabled device settings. Improved application backwards compatibility for Windows Phone 8.1 Silverlight […]

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Office 365 / Exchange – Find time a new add-on to help you scheduling meeting time

We all know it can be quite a challenge some time to schedule meeting with people. Microsoft has released a new add-on called Find Time which works with Outlook 2013/2016 and Office 365 (you must have an Office 365 subscriptions) to help you find the right time to schedule a meeting with someone – ok,

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Office – Become more productive thanks to this Excel template which analyzes your time

With Excel 2016, Microsoft has introduced a new template called Calendar Insights. The template surfaces how much time you spend in meetings, whom you meet with the most (and whom you ignore), which part of the day you usually meet with people. You can see your calendar as a dashboard, and interact with it to

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Office 365 / Skype for Business – Tool to update your Dial In Conferencing numbers

With the availability of the Enterprise Plan 5 which includes lot of premium services, including Dial In Conferencing, Microsoft proposes a tool to update your dial in conferencing number if you have enabled the Skype for Business PSTN Conferencing license You can get the tool from http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=47729 (32 bits version) Then deploy the package (very

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Office 365 / Skype for Business – Critical actions for Skype for Meeting Broadcast

As you may know, some time ago Microsoft has announced a new Skype for Business service to host large meeting called Skype for Meeting Broadcast. This has been in preview since July 2015. Now, as the service is scheduled for production very soon, preview customers need to update their configuration to use Azure CND –

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Office 365 / OneDrive for Business – Disable the new experience for everyone

As you may know, Microsoft has announced some improvements on OneDrive for Business – such as a new synchronization client and a new web UI (see https://blog.onedrive.com/meet-the-new-onedrive-for-business/) If you have enabled First Preview for your tenant (all organization or selected users) you may already have the new web UI available as per below Each user

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Yammer – Yammer SSO and Yammer DirSync are being deprecated and removed

Good news It seems that Microsoft is finally making the long awaited move to consolidate all the identity management stuff for Yammer with Office 365. They already made on step by allowing the configuration to use Office 365 Identity, now it has been announced that the Yammer DirSync will be also (finally) removed. Ok, we

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Yammer – Enforce Office 365 Identity in Yammer and Yammer DirSync stops working

As you may be aware, Microsoft has introduce a new security/identity feature on Yammer to enforce all users to use their Office 365 credentials. It may be one step to get closer for the long waited unified directory synchronization tool for both Office 365 and Yammer, but this is the subject. If you enable this

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Office 365 – Analyze the security settings for your tenant

UPDATE 24/11/2015 – The script has been already updated has some bugs have been found. So please ensure you are always using the latest version by downloading it from the website Microsoft is currently testing (early beta stage) an Office 365 security analyzer to help administrators to understand their current security configuration and potential risks

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