As Microsoft has announced it was moving to TLS 1.2, the 3DES cipher support is going to be removed by February 28, 2019. If you are not sure if this cipher is still being used by your organization to connect and access Office 365 services you can go to the Secure Score website (http://securescore.microsoft.com) and use the “Remove TLS 1.0/1.1 and 3DES Dependencies” option By clicking the Learn More button…
Read MoreTeams – New capabilities are coming in to calling in Teams
Microsoft Teams calling capabilities are going to be improved as multiple updates are being deployed, which is expected to be started by mid December 2018 and completed by end of January 2019. The below list details the new features going to be available once your tenant has been updated: Shared Line Appearance – Handle multiple calls on a specific number called a shared number. This feature can configure any enterprise…
Read MoreTeams – Dynamic membership is now available for Microsoft Teams
An update has been deployed to make dynamic membership available for Microsoft Teams. With this update, you can now have your users added/removed dynamically from a Teams based on Azure AD user attribute(s). To take advantage of it, you need to: Create a dynamic group (either Security or Office 365) on your Azure AD To know the supported attributes, operators, values or how to use complex rules go to https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/users-groups-roles/groups-dynamic-membership#supported-properties…
Read MoreTeams – New administration roles are available
New administration roles are now available to delegate Teams administration. These roles are: Teams Service Administrator: Self explanatory. Teams SA has complete control and access to Microsoft Teams configuration and settings and has also the ability to manage and create Office 365 Groups. Management can be performed either through the Teams administration portal or PowerShell Teams Communication Administrator: A Teams Communication Administrator can manage meetings and calling functionality in Microsoft…
Read MoreOffice 365 – New administrative settings to manage trial services
Earlier in May 2018, Microsoft has announced the availability of 1 year trial for Microsoft Teams, even if the user is not yet licensed for it. This trial is now available to Office 365 commercial tenants (aka not Edu or Gov). In addition of this Microsoft Teams 1 year trial, a new administrative settings is made available to manage how trial services (as of today only Teams is available but…
Read MoreOffice 365 – Microsoft is NO LONGER enforcing TLS 1.2
As you may have been aware as there has been quite lot of communication, Microsoft was planning to disable TLS 1.0 and 1.1 support for Office 365 services. Well, it seems this is longer the plan as per the updated KB 4057306 (https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/help/4057306/preparing-for-tls-1-2-in-office-365) – as per the extract below: Note This doesn’t mean Office 365 will block TLS 1.0 and 1.1 connections. There is no official date for disabling or…
Read MoreOffice 365 – Reminder to move to TLS 1.2
UPDATE Oct 26th, 2018 – Microsoft is delaying the enforcement http://bit.ly/2D5uv3p A quick reminder as the date is fast approaching: you must have moved to TLS 1.2 before October 31, 2018 It has been announced about a year ago (October 2017), all client-server and browser based communication with Office 365 services will use TLS 1.2 After October 31, 2018, if you are still using older TLS version (1.0 or 1.1),…
Read MoreTeams – Microsoft Teams goes free
It has just been announced, Microsoft Teams goes free… The free version allows users with no commercial Office 365 offers to collaborate with up to 300 people, using up to 10 Gb of file storage (with 2 Gb additional per user). Off course, this free version of Teams also integrates with Office Online Apps to open and edit Office documents. Start using it from here http://office.com/teams
Read MoreTeams – Live Events and Policy
As you may already know, Teams is going to replace Skype for Business (in a way or another) on Office 365. As part of the ongoing improvement of Teams, a new capability is now in preview called: Live Events. The idea of Teams Live Event is to setup and host Teams meeting with large audience; sound familiar? Yep, it used to be (or still be for some time anyway) Skype…
Read MoreTeams – Support for eDiscovery for Teams users with on-premises mailbox
You can request, through a support request (see below for details), to get your Office 365 tenant enabled for eDiscovery for Teams when you are in Exchange Hybrid configuration. eDiscovery for Teams has been already deployed some time ago across Office 365 tenant; this update will cover the scenario when a user is still hosted on Exchange on-premises and is using Teams. Below a diagram explaining how the eDiscovery will…
Read MoreTeams – Retention Policies is now available for Teams
Microsoft is rolling out an update to make retention policies available for Microsoft Teams. Completion is scheduled for mid-April. Please note there is no default retention policy applied to Teams. To create (and apply) a retention policy for Teams, go to the Security and Compliance center (https://protection.office.com) and reach the Data governance\Retention blade Then create a new retention policy Follow the wizard to name your policy and set the retention…
Read MoreTeams – MSI packages are now available to deploy Teams
Since Microsoft has released Microsoft Teams, there has been a need for MSI package to deploy it in enterprise environment using software deployment solution (such as SCCM). Until then, there has been lot of workarounds available on the internet to manage such corporate deployment needs. Now, Microsoft has released MSI packages (both 32 and 64 bits). However, there few tricks to keep in mind, like you can not use this…
Read MoreTeams – You can recover deleted channel from Teams
After allowing administrator to recover deleted Teams, Microsoft Teams has been updated and now allows you (and I mean end-user here) to recover deleted Teams channel for up to 21 days after the channel has been deleted. To recover a channel, the Teams owner needs to go to the Teams settings (Manage Team) Then you go to the Channels tab and open the Deleted group to select the channel to…
Read MoreTeams – You can now invite non corporate user as guest
You may already know it has been possible to invite external users to your Microsoft Teams but this was limited to corporate account – meaning external users with Office 365 account. Now, this has been finally extended to allow you to invite also external users with Microsoft Account. NOTE please note the updated feature is being rolled out with an estimated completion date at the end of March. Off course,…
Read MoreSkype for Business / Teams – New Skype for Business network assessment tool
The Skype for Business network assessment tool has been updated (version 2017.1.0.51) and is now taking into account Microsoft Teams in addition of Skype for Business. You can download the updated network assessment from https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=53885 Once installed, there is no shortcuts whatsoever; you need to browse to C:\Program Files\Microsoft Skype for Business Network Assessment Tool and run the NetworkAssessmentTool.exe file to start. As this is still a command line executable,…
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