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

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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

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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

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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

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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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Exchange Online – It is now easier to allow end-users to report message and provide customized message

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Exchange and Security & Compliance administrators now have the ability to enable the ‘Report Message’ add-in from the Security and Compliance portal (https://protection.office.com/) through the Threat Management\Policy blade In addition of this move, you can also configure a customized message which will be displayed before and/or after submitting message using the add-in.

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Office 365 – Office 365 Pro is changing the default search engine

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Coming with the version 2002 of Office 365 Pro Plus, a browser extension is going to be installed on Chrome to make Bing the default search engine. This change is scheduled to be deployed starting February 2020 for the Targeted channel, March 2010 for the Monthly channel and with the next release for Semi-Annual channel.

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Azure – Azure Secure Score has been simplified (preview)

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By now you should know Azure Secure Score (ASS), the Azure Security feature which helps you review the security recommendations and prioritize them for you. Well, Azure Secure Score has been simplified and is now in preview. To start using this new and simplified Azure Secure Score, logon to your Azure portal (https://portal.azure.com/) and reach

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Office 365 – A change in Chrome may break your sites

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Google Chrome is introducing a major/breaking change in the way websites and cookies are handled with the coming Chrome 80, planned for released later on Feb 4th, 2020. It is important you prepare yourself and be ready for this change. What can you do? While you are testing and evaluating the potential impact this new

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Teams – New and simpler way to search for apps

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As you know, Microsoft Teams is an extensible platform, providing integration with other systems through Teams Apps. When you want to add an Apps to your Teams/Channel, you usually use the ‘More added apps’ or ‘Apps’ menus Now, you can also do the same directly from the Teams bar (also known as the conversation bar)

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Teams – Better integration with SharePoint

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The Microsoft Teams client got a most welcome update, providing a better integration with SharePoint. Indeed, with this update, when you browse the Files tab you now have a similar toolbar and views option; you can now directly from Teams use the OneDrive client to sync/cache the content of your Teams channel you can now

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