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Office – You can now apply Office policies to everyone using Cloud Policy Service

Leave a Comment / Office, Office 365 / By Benoit HAMET / April 26, 2023 / clou, Office, Office 365, Office Cloud Policy Service

By now you probably know Cloud Policy Service which allows you to apply policies to your Office applications (https://config.office.com/). Until now, policies would have been applied to specific group(s) of users. Well, good news as now you can apply a policy to all users in your tenant. You can only apply 1 policy with a …

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Outlook Mobile – You can now easily access and manage your contacts

Leave a Comment / Exchange, Office / By Benoit HAMET / February 8, 2023 / Outlook, Outlook Mobile

This was a functionality missing on Outlook mobile: easy access and management of your contacts. Well, good news, Outlook Mobile has been updated and is now allowing you to easily access and manage your contacts. You may not notice it at first because this functionality is a little bit hidden. After opening Outlook mobile open …

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Office 365 – You can now export your Office policy configurations

Leave a Comment / Office, Office 365 / By Benoit HAMET / January 9, 2023 / O365, Office, Office 365, Office 365 C2R, Office 365 Click-To-Run, Office C2R, Office Click-To-Run, Office Cloud Policy Service

If you use Office 365, you are probably aware of the Cloud Policy Service for Office (aka Office App Configuration) portal (https://config.office.com/) you use to create your custom Office installation XML file and Office configuration (similar to the GPO). Well, you can now export your policy configuration in CSV to help you identify and review …

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Office – You can now use domain name to restrict access to Office documents (preview)

Leave a Comment / Beta / Preview, Office, Office 365, Security / By Benoit HAMET / December 20, 2022 / Information Protection, Office

As you probably know, you can restrict access and permission to Office document using Information Protection. Well, until now, you had to individually add each and every users using their email address. However there is situation where you can add each users because you may not know or the shared document needs to be protected …

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Office – You can now share your Word document in review mode

Leave a Comment / Office, Office 365, SharePoint / By Benoit HAMET / August 22, 2022 / O365, OdB, ODfB, Office, Office 365, OneDrive, OneDrive for Business, SharePoint, SharePoint Mobile App, SharePoint Online, SPO, Word

If you are using SharePoint Online and/or OneDrive, you already know you can share your Office documents in read or edit mode. Well, good news you can now also share your Word document in review mode. Sharing in review mode allows Word document sharing with limited edit capability while enabling change tracking automatically. This new …

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Outlook – You can now check your latest sign-in from Outlook

Leave a Comment / Office, Office 365, Security / By Benoit HAMET / July 12, 2021 / Office, Outlook, Sign-In, Sign-In Activities, Sign-In Activity

As you know, you can check you sign-in activities using the My Sign-Ins portal (https://mysignins.microsoft.com/). Well, you can now also have you last sign-in activity directly from the Outlook client by accessing the File\Info menu It also gives you a link to access the My Sign-Ins portal

Outlook – Coming soon, updated interface matching the web one

Leave a Comment / Office, Office 365 / By Benoit HAMET / July 9, 2021 / Office, Office C2R, Office Click-To-Run, Outlook

If you are using Microsoft Office 365 apps (aka Office) and have the ‘Coming soon’ (see https://t.co/1ZuhCEEkFk) enabled, you can turn on now an updated interface which is matching the one on the web. The navigation bar is moving from the bottom to the left side and now provides access to your Office applications too …

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Teams – You can now share email from Outlook to Teams

Leave a Comment / Microsoft Teams, Office / By Benoit HAMET / April 6, 2021 / Microsoft Teams, MS Teams, Outlook, Outlook on the Web, Outlook Web Access, OWA, Teams

Sometime, you need to share emails content to Teams. Until now, the only option was either copy/paste of the body and attachments, or a drag and drop of the email from Outlook to Teams – knowing the last option works only when using Outlook for Windows/Mac with Teams clients. Well, it is now easier as …

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Office 365 – Important Outlook connectivity update

2 Comments / Office, Office 365 / By Benoit HAMET / December 10, 2020 / O365, Office, Office 365, Outlook

As you know, connecting to Office 365 service using Office client and in this case Outlook requires to use specific version. As part of it, Outlook client older than the below version will not be able to connect to Office 365 services after November 1st, 2021 Outlook 2013 15.0.4970.9999 and older Outlook 2016 16.0.4599.9999 and …

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Office – Your Office applications can now apply the system theme

Leave a Comment / Office, Office 365 / By Benoit HAMET / November 25, 2020 / Office, Office 365, Office 365 C2R, Office 365 Click-To-Run

The Office 365 apps (version 2011 build 13426 or later) can now apply your system theme. As you know, Office applications had the ability to apply specific themes (colorful, dark gray, black or white); well now it can also apply your system theme. To make your Office applications use the system theme, launch any of …

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