Author name: Benoit HAMET

Exchange Online – You can now add a personal calendar and refreshed UI for calendar management

This new feature is only available through Outlook Web Access (aka OWA, aka Outlook on the Web). When you use OWA to access your calendar (https://outlook.office.com/calendar/) you will have a refreshed ‘Add calendar’ which then will also gives you the ability to add a personal calendar from Outlook.com, Google or Team Snap. To access this […]

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Exchange Online – You can now manage the recipient limits

For those working with Exchange and Exchange Online, you already know the recipient limits setting used to restrict the number of recipient a user can send a single message. You are also already aware that Exchange Online has (or had if read below) a hard coded limit set to 500 recipients for all mailboxes. Well

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Azure – The Azure Network Watcher has been refreshed with a new connection monitor

You may already know Azure Network Watcher, the network monitoring and troubleshooting tool helping you monitoring and solving network connectivity issues with your Azure resources. Well, Azure Network Watcher has just been refreshed with a new connection monitor providing end to end unified monitoring capabilities for Azure Hybrid and Azure deployments. Some of the new

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Office – The new Office mobile app is now available

As you may be aware a new Office mobile app has been in preview for the past few months. Well, this new version is now available in GA for both iOS and Android: Apple Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/microsoft-office/id541164041 Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.microsoft.office.officehubrow The new Office App integrates all capabilities of the individual Word, Excel or PowerPoint application With

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Azure – You can now use Azure Data Box with Azure Backup

You may already know Azure Backup, the backup solution for both on-premises and cloud based workloads hosted in Azure, and Azure Data Box, the solution to offload large amount of data from on-premises datacentres to Azure using encrypted drives. Well, now both solution can work together, helping you to offload your large backup stored on-premises

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Azure – Azure Firewall Manager can now integrate with virtual networks

As introduced some time ago, Azure Firewall Manager (AFM) is the central configuration and management point for Azure Firewall. Well, AFM has been updated and is now able to integrate with your virtual network. The integration consists on ‘converting’ your Azure Virtual Network to a hub virtual network. This is handy if your network architecture

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Azure – You can now use shared disks in Azure for your clustered workloads

With this new capability added to Azure, you can now deploy/migrate your clustered workloads on Azure virtual machines. This is quite handy as with the end of support of Windows Server and SQL Server 2008, you can benefit up to 3 years support if these workloads run on Azure (and there is still quite a

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Office 365 – It is now possible to switch to another tenant

This is one is mainly for partners and CSP as they are responsible of managing different Office 365 tenant. It is now possible to switch between different Office 365 tenant directly from the Office 365 Administration portal. To be able to use this feature you must use the new admin experience  and have the other

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Office 365 – Use the Insider Risk Management capability to detect bad behaviour

As you know, Office 365 comes with a bunch of security capabilities to help you protect your users and your IP’s as well as helping your company  staying compliant with regulation. That said this is not easy to detect bad activities from internal users  – either done on purpose or by mistake – such as

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