Author name: Benoit HAMET

Skype for Business Online – Remember Skype for Business Online is being retired on July 31

As you should be aware, Skype for Business Online is being retired on July 31 2021. If you are still using Skype for Business Online and don’t have yet started your migration, now is a good time before it is too late. Good news if Microsoft is thinking about you and help you to keep […]

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Teams – You can now schedule webinars using Teams

As you know, Teams is the core collaborative tools provided by Office 365, allowing your end-users setup project sites to host files, applications and chats needed for their projects. Well, you can now use Teams to schedule and host webinars.This capability is offered for Office 365 or Microsoft 365 E3/E5/A3/A5/Business Standard/Business Premium subscriptions. You can

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SharePoint Online – A new SharePoint bar is available to provide global navigation capabilities

If you are using a modern SharePoint site, a new bar is going to appear on the left side to provide global navigation capabilities. The SharePoint app bar is a fixed navigation experience across all modern SharePoint sites that provides quick access to the most important sites, news, and files as well as the organization’s

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Windows – The latest build of Windows 10 – 21H1 – is now available

As you know, every 6 months a new build of Windows 10 is being released. Well, the latest one – 21H1 – is now available for download from MSDN, Volume License or the download center (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10) from which you can get an ISO or create a bootable USB. The good news is the upgrade process

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Office 365 – You can now have multiple organization themes to apply to Office 365 groups

As you know, Office 365 allows you to define an organization theme (custom color or logo) to brand your Office 365 services when accessed from the web browser. Well, until now you could only have 1 organization branding. You can now define additional branding themes to apply to your Office 365 groups. To do so,

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Teams – You can now enable your Out of Office from Teams

As you know, Out of Office has been a very valuable feature on mail systems (Exchange or Lotus Notes) to let senders you are away from the office for some time. Well, you can now enable your Out of Office from Teams. To do that, open the option menu by clicking on your picture and

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Azure AD – You can now use GPS coordinates for better accuracy on Named Location

As you know, you can configure Named Location on Azure AD for use with Conditional Access either based on public IP address or country. Well, when using the country based location, the real location is not always as accurate as it should. Good news, you can now use GPS coordinates to gain better accuracy when

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OneDrive – You can now have a look at the health of your OneDrive client fleet

As you know, OneDrive client is used to synchronize your content stored on SharePoint Online, OneDrive user’s space or Teams files. You also know that OneDrive client (should) self update itself to keep up with the updated version. Well, the self update capability is not always working (quite rare but still happening) and there was

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Intune – You can now use filters to apply policies, applications or profiles on devices

As you know, Intune (aka Endpoint Configuration Manager) is a device management solution allowing you to apply configuration profiles, policies or deploy application on devices. These assignment are done using device groups – usually dynamic ones to target specific OS, enrollment type or manufacturer. Well, while these dynamic groups are quite useful they may be

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Outlook – External sender can now be flagged

As you know, Exchange administrators have been able to flag external sender for few weeks already (see https://t.co/144cAWA42F) but this was applicable only to Outlook mobile.Well, good news, if you have already configured it for your Outlook mobile users, this also now applies to Outlook client, including Outlook Web Access (aka OWA, aka Outlook on

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