Author name: Benoit HAMET

Yammer – Yammer Directory Synch stopped working and service account is unable to authenticate

Recently I had an issue with the Yammer Directory Synchronization tool. It has been setup and working for a while now but few days ago, it stopped working and the error was quite strange: unable to authenticate Off course I have validated that the account was administration on my Yammer network and it was the […]

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Office 365 / Exchange Online – Exchange Online Advanced Threat Protection is now available

Microsoft has announced a new/improved Exchange Online Protection feature called Exchange Online Advanced Threat Protection (ATP). ATP will delivers the following services: Improved protection against unknown malware and viruses: this extends the existing Exchange Online Protection service by providing a zero-day protection against virus and malware. All message with attachments with an unknown virus/malware signature

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Office 365 – Some important updates for Offfice 365 services (Exchange, MDM and SharePoint)

In case you did not notice these incoming important changes for Office 365 services – covering Exchange Online, Mobile Device Management and SharePoint Online. Some of them may have end-users impact like these two: Exchange Online: access to Outlook Web Access will be redirected for some users to outlook.office.com instead of outlook.office365.com Mobile Device Management:

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Skype for Business – Disable the Call Quality pop up

As you know, Skype for Business is now the name of Lync. It is available both On Premises and Online. As part of the re branding, there has been few improvement and one of these is on the client side. After a call or meeting with voice, end-user got a pop up to rate the

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Office 365 – New reporting options available for Exchange use

Microsoft has introduced new option in the reporting for Office 365. The first one is you can now automate mail protection report to be automatically sent to your inbox (http://aka.ms/o365scheduledreports). The mail protection report was (still is) a small piece to be downloaded on your client (with Excel installed) to let you monitor the spam

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Office 365 – You can now better manage the First Release option

As you may already know, Microsoft has introduced a feature called First Release on Office 365 to help customers to discover mew services or features before they have been roll out widely to all customers. If this was a great improvement to be prepare for potential changes, this had a limitation: this applied to all

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Office 365 / Exchange Online – More user friendly NDR message

I don’t know since then this change has been in place – as I usually have no NDR (non delivery report) – but today I got one and I have been well impressed by this new user friendly format. This will help end-user to better understand what happened with their message. Off course, administrators can

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Azure RMS – Gets updated to track protected files access

It has been announced during the Ignite conference currently at Chicago. Azure RMS is being updated to include a tracking feature allowing user to track access attempt to an RMS protected file, either successful or not. This new feature is currently under preview and is available to any Office 365 or EMS customers, after the

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Office 365 – Mobile application to reach out the Office 365 community

As you may already know, the Office 365 Community is the place where you can seek for help when using Office 365 solution – http://community.office365.com While this has been there since the early beginning of Office 365 offers, the only way to reach the community was using a web browser. With the increase of mobility,

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