Author name: Benoit HAMET

Outlook – Coming soon, updated interface matching the web one

If you are using Microsoft Office 365 apps (aka Office) and have the ‘Coming soon’ (see https://t.co/1ZuhCEEkFk) enabled, you can turn on now an updated interface which is matching the one on the web. The navigation bar is moving from the bottom to the left side and now provides access to your Office applications too […]

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Azure AD – New administration role available to delegate Windows Updates settings

A new Azure Active Directory administration role is available – called Windows update deployment administrator – to delegate Windows Updates deployments through Windows Update for Business. This role allows you to delegate Windows Update for Business settings like when and how updates are deployed to devices. This will help you delegate Windows Update for Business

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Intune – Administrators can now locate devices

When you manage a fleet of devices, it is some time important to be able to locate these devices, especially when reported lost or stolen by end-users before requesting a remote wipe. Well, Intune administrators can now request to locate a Windows device from the Endpoint Configuration Manager portal (https://endpoint.microsoft.com/). To locate a device, connect

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Teams – New Teams attendance report

A new Teams attendance report for meeting (one time and recurring) and webinar is under way. It will provide to the meeting/webinar organizer details about the attendance directly from the Teams client. The deployment is currently underway and should be completed by end of August. NOTE this feature will be turn off by default. To

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Yammer – You can now apply retention policy to Yammer users and communities messages

As you may know, Yammer became the enterprise social network from Microsoft on Office 365 few years ago. While there has been not much evolution on Yammer over the past few years, there is one big news: you can now apply retention policies on Yammer messages, in preview. To apply a retention policy on Yammer,

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SharePoint Online – Changes coming for PST file retention

As you know, you can enable retention policies on SharePoint Online and OneDrive to keep records of your data for a defined period. Off course, these policies applies to files stored on SharePoint, including PST file. The retained data is kept on a dedicated list called Preservation Hold Library within the SharePoint/OneDrive site; which means

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Exchange Online Protection – It is now easier to enable the ‘First Contact Safety Tip’

As you may already know, Exchange Online Protection has been able to provide a ‘First Contact Safety Tip’ to display a notification to end-user when they receive an email from somebody for the first time to make them pay more attention in case of potential phishing.   Well, until then, this ‘First Contact Safety Tip’

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Intune – You can now offboard your hierarchy

As you know, System Center Configuration Manager Current Branch (SCCM CB) – aka Microsoft Endpoint Configuration Manager – can be integrated with Intune (aka Microsoft Endpoint Manager) to provide hybrid device management capabilities, also called co-management. This integration is called tenant attach onboarding. Well, while this hybrid device management provides lot of value for SCCM

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