Author name: Benoit HAMET

Office 365 – You can connect your Microsoft Rewards with your Azure AD

You may already know Microsoft Rewards, a loyalty program from Microsoft letting you earn points while using Bing for your web search and participating in other activities like participating to daily challenges. Your reward points can then be converted to gift cards, XBox Live Gold membership or giving to charities. If you don’t know or […]

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Azure AD – You can now use Microsoft Authenticator code matching for authentication (preview)

Another step to a passwordless world. As you know, you can signing with no password using a FIDO key or Windows Hello. Well, you can now also use the one time code from your Microsoft Authenticator app. First thing you need to enable this new feature by logging on your Azure AD portal (https://aad.portal.azure.com/) and

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Azure AD – You can use your Microsoft Authenticator mobile application to update your security info

As you know, end-users can access the Microsoft My Sign-Ins website (https://mysignins.microsoft.com/) to manage their security information (register MFA authentication method, set the default MFA method…). Well, this can now also be done using the Microsoft Authenticator mobile application. From the Authenticator application, access your account and the select Update security info Then you are

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OneDrive – A 64 bits version is available in preview and scheduled for GA by end of April

As you know, the OneDrive client is used to synchronize SharePoint (both on-premises and online) and OneDrive (both consumer and for business) content to your local device. Well, good news, a 64 bits version of the OneDrive client for Windows is available now in preview with a general availability scheduled for end of April. You

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Teams – You can now share email from Outlook to Teams

Sometime, you need to share emails content to Teams. Until now, the only option was either copy/paste of the body and attachments, or a drag and drop of the email from Outlook to Teams – knowing the last option works only when using Outlook for Windows/Mac with Teams clients. Well, it is now easier as

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Teams – You can now troubleshoot Teams delegation issues with the Remote Connectivity Analyzer

By now, you should already know the Remote Connectivity Analyzer (https://testconnectivity.microsoft.com/) used to help administrators to troubleshoot connectivity issues with Exchange (on-premises or Online), mail flow, Skype for Business (on-premises or Online) and more recently Teams. Well, if you are experiencing some issues with Teams delegation – like the infamous ‘Looks like you don’t have

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Teams – User can disable automatic identification in meeting captions and transcripts

As you may know, Microsoft Teams is able to automatically identify who is talking during a meeting and associate the participant name in captions and transcripts. Well, if your end-user want to not be automatically identify, they can go to the Settings\Captions and transcripts to turn off the automatic identification

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Exchange Online – You can now block distribution list to be in BCC (hidden copy)

Today we all know the impact and benefits of distribution list. Well, some time senders may want to send email to peoples and/or distribution lists in hidden copy (BCC) to avoid reply to all storm (especially with distribution list). But you, as Exchange administrator, may want to ensure (at least certain) distribution list are always

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Azure AD – A new version of Azure AD Connect (1.6.2.4) is now available with new features

As you know Azure Active Directory Connect (AAD Connect) is used to synchronize your on-premises Active Directory objects (users, groups, devices) to Azure AD with the option to synchronize the user’s hash password (aka password sync, aka password hash sync, aka PHS). Well, with this new version – 1.6.2.4 – available for download here https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=615771

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Exchange Online – You can now flag external emails in Outlook

To help increase awareness to end-users to pay more attention on emails they receive, you can now have external emails tag on Outlook Mobile and Outlook Web Access (OWA); this is not (yet?) available for Outlook client on Windows or Mac. Highlighting emails received from external sender will help you end-user to better identify potential

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