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Office 365 – A new version of AAD Connect is now available

As you may be aware, AAD Connect is now the synchronization tool to synchronize your AD with Office 365/Azure Some time after the first GA release, a new version is now available. This includes: New features: Can reconfigure the ADFS to Azure AD trust. Can refresh the Active Directory schema and regenerate Sync Rules. Can […]

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Exchange 2016 – Integrate Skype for Business with Exchange 2016

As you already know, Exchange 2016 is now available as RTM since October 1st. With this new release, many new features and improvements have been included, and as part of these improvements the configuration of the integration of Skype for Business / Lync with Exchange OWA (or Outlook on the Web as they now call

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Windows Phone – Groups app is now available for Windows Phone

As you may already know, Microsoft has started to deploy a new feature called Groups on Exchange Online – and which will be also available with Exchange 2016. To simplify a little bit, the Groups feature is aimed to replace Site Mailbox and Distribution List by allowing end users to create a SharePoint site to

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Exchange – Cumulative Update 10 for Exchange 2013 is now available

I usually did not post this information as this pretty simple to get it; however, I’m making exception for this one as this is a really important one. As you may be aware, Exchange 2016 is coming soon. So, what about the relation with this Exchange 2013 CU10 and Exchange 2016? Well, if you are

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Office 365 / Exchange Online – A new version of ActiveSync is coming

Microsoft has announced that a new version of ActiveSync is coming. This v16 is introducing a long waited feature request: synching the draft folder Also part of this new version, calendar items with attachment will be synched with the attachment. At this time, this new version is being rolled out only on Exchange Online on

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Office 365 / Exchange Online – Exchange Online Advanced Threat Protection is now available

Microsoft has announced a new/improved Exchange Online Protection feature called Exchange Online Advanced Threat Protection (ATP). ATP will delivers the following services: Improved protection against unknown malware and viruses: this extends the existing Exchange Online Protection service by providing a zero-day protection against virus and malware. All message with attachments with an unknown virus/malware signature

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Office 365 – Some important updates for Offfice 365 services (Exchange, MDM and SharePoint)

In case you did not notice these incoming important changes for Office 365 services – covering Exchange Online, Mobile Device Management and SharePoint Online. Some of them may have end-users impact like these two: Exchange Online: access to Outlook Web Access will be redirected for some users to outlook.office.com instead of outlook.office365.com Mobile Device Management:

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Office 365 – New reporting options available for Exchange use

Microsoft has introduced new option in the reporting for Office 365. The first one is you can now automate mail protection report to be automatically sent to your inbox (http://aka.ms/o365scheduledreports). The mail protection report was (still is) a small piece to be downloaded on your client (with Excel installed) to let you monitor the spam

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Office 365 / Exchange Online – More user friendly NDR message

I don’t know since then this change has been in place – as I usually have no NDR (non delivery report) – but today I got one and I have been well impressed by this new user friendly format. This will help end-user to better understand what happened with their message. Off course, administrators can

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Office 365 / Exchange Online – Changes in the Clutter feature

Since last November and the introduction of the Clutter feature (see http://blogs.office.com/2014/11/11/de-clutter-inbox-office-365/ for more details), Microsoft has updated the Clutter feature to allow better management of this feature by administrators. Now, administrators can define retention policies, define rules to bypass Clutter or personalize the message received by end-users. See http://blogs.office.com/2015/03/03/making-clutter-office-365-even-better/ to know more

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