Author name: Benoit HAMET

Teams – The new Teams PowerShell module 2.0 is now available

As you know, the Teams PowerShell module is helping managing Teams and Skype for Business Online. Well, the new 2.0 version is now available. With this version you no longer need to connect to both Teams and Skype for Business Online; you can just connect to both administration back-end with a single command Connect-MicrosoftTeams The […]

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SharePoint Online – You can now keep the sharing permissions when moving files

As you may already know, if you access your SharePoint Online site (Modern experience only) with a web browser you have the capability to copy/move content to another location. Well, you can now move content while keeping the source sharing permissions.

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Teams – You can now manage the bandwidth during a video call on Teams Mobile

To help you manage the bandwidth (and as such your data consumption), you can now optimize the bandwidth consumed during a video call  made on Teams mobile (on both iOS and Android devices). By default, the optimization is turned off. To enable and manage it, open your Teams mobile application and go to the Settings\Data

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OneDrive – The OneDrive administration options are moving to the SharePoint Online administration portal

As you know, you can manage your OneDrive settings (user quota, synchronization and sharing policy…) from the OneDrive administration portal (https://admin.onedrive.com/). Well, the OneDrive administration portal is scheduled to be removed and all OneDrive administration task are being merged into the SharePoint Online administration portal. The convergence will take place into 2 steps: 1. OneDrive

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Teams – You can now share a link when setting up a ‘Join now’ meeting

As you know, you can schedule meetings with Microsoft Teams, including an impromptu one called ‘Meet now’. Until now, when you were starting a ‘Meet now’ meeting you add to directly join the meeting before inviting people. Well, you can now share a link to join the ‘Meet now’ meeting   You will also notice

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Azure AD – New administration roles to delegate administration tasks and reduce the need to grant global administrator

As you know, Azure Active Directory provides a large list of administration roles to allow delegating administration tasks and reduce the need to grant the more powerful global administrator role. Well, 2 new roles are now available: Authentication policy administrator to delegate the permissions to manage the authentication methods enabled on Azure AD and associated

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Azure AD – You can now recover a deleted registered application (preview)

As you know, you can register applications on Azure AD when your application need to have access to data hosted on Azure AD (groups membership, users profile details…). Well, you can now recover a deleted registered application up to 30 days after deletion. This can be useful when an Azure AD administrator and/or application administrator/developer

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Intune – You can now remotely capture diagnostic logs

As you know, Intune allows you to remotely manage your devices. Well, while remote management sounds quite easy, the hard part is troubleshooting when something does not go as planned. Good news, you can now remotely capture diagnostic logging on remote devices when you need to troubleshoot. There is some prerequisites first: Desktop: Windows 10

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Azure AD – Temporary Access Pass for password less user is now in preview

As you know, for the past few years, Microsoft has been working to remove the need of passwords to access Microsoft Cloud services through Azure Active Directory – also known as password less. Well, there was still a problem as an end user needed to know his password at some point. This now answered with

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Exchange Online – Review your DNS configuration to avoid mail flow failures

Starting March 22, 2021, Exchange Online (ExO) and Exchange Online Protection (EOP) DNS infrastructure will be updated to enable Extension Mechanisms for DNS (EDNS) to allow sending DNS data in larger UDP packet which is required for DNSSEC. To prepare for this change, the ExO team has been already reviewing existing Office 365 tenant to

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