Author name: Benoit HAMET

Azure AD – A new conditional access App for Office 365 suite

You may be well aware about the Azure Active Directory (Azure AD or AAD) Conditional Access features, and you should already have implemented some conditional access rules to improve your security posture. That said, when you have to setup a conditional access rule for Office 365 services access (Exchange Online, Teams, PowerApps…) it may be […]

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Exchange Online – You can now have access to all the attachments you have sent/receive when using OWA

Exchange Online has been updated to introduce a new feature in Outlook on the Web (aka Outlook Web Access, aka OWA). When accessing your mailbox using OWA, you will now see a Files view, available in the module switcher at the bottom (which redirect you to https://outlook.office.com/files/) When you switch to the Files view you

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Office 365 – You no longer dismiss message from the Message Center but instead archive them

A quite minor change, but you are no longer dismissing message from the Message Center in Office 365 portal. Instead, you are now archiving them.

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Teams – You can pin apps by policy

Microsoft Teams now allow administrator to define policies to pin apps to their end-users (turned on by default). This policy setting also allows administrator to disable the ‘pin app’ capability. As remined, an app can be pinned in Teams by following these steps: Access the search an app function (the 3 dots – … –

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Teams – You can now get notified when a colleague joins Teams

A new notification setting has appear in Teams, let you know configure notification when a colleague joins Teams. This notification is set to Banner and Email by default. To manage how you want to get notified, just go to your Teams Settings menu and reach out the Notification section to configure the Highlights for you\Colleague

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Teams – Teams now supports the ATP Safe Links

As you may know, Office 365 comes (either as part of your subscription – E5 – or add-on) with an Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) solution, which analyse links being sent by email or inside Office document, called ATP Safe Links Well, the ATP Safe Links now supports Teams, which means any link being send through

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Office 365 – A refreshed Settings experience in the Office 365 Administration Portal

As you already know, the Office 365 Administration Portal (https://admin.microsoft.com/) is your one-stop shop to manage your Office 365 services (from associated domains, to users/groups or even service settings). That said, it has been sometime a little bit difficult to find the configuration menu for some specific settings you had to configure or update. Well,

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Windows 10 – You can now use your Windows PC to make call with your mobile phone

You may already know the Your Phone companion apps for Windows 10 which can be used to send text message directly from your PC (and off course read the received ones): Windows 10 App store: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/p/your-phone/9nmpj99vjbwv Android Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.microsoft.appmanager Well the Your Phone companion app has been updated and is now allowing you to

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Teams – You can now apply Legal Holds on Teams

As  ore and more activities occur on Microsoft Teams, the Office 365 Compliance team is now providing ability to put on Legal Hold Teams content (including private channels) on Legal Hold when you need to prevent content tampering. To do so,, logon to your Office 365 Compliance portal (either https://protection.office.com/ or https://compliance.microsoft.com/ [the new Compliance

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Windows – LDAP signing going to be mandatory in March 2020

In March 2020, Microsoft is going to release a security update for Windows which will require that all LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol) request to be signed, meaning all unsigned (and as such unsecure) LDAP request will be rejected by Windows Active Directory servers (AD DS or AD LDS). You need to act now to

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