IT Administrators can restrict new file creation in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint on Windows to Cloud Locations only, enhancing security and compliance. This policy, deployable via Group Policy or Cloud Policy Service, limits saving new files to OneDrive, SharePoint, or third-party Clouds, promoting cloud usage and protection. It is important to properly identify the use […]
An important change is coming for Chromium-based browsers (Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge) which will impact offline access to Office 365 services using web browser. You need to act before end of September (before Chromium 141 is being rolled out). The change introduced with Chromium 141 is related to privacy settings which will increase restrictions
When the move to the cloud, customers had on-premises footprint with especially messaging systems – such as Exchange Server, which leaded to implement Exchange hybrid configuration with directory synchronization. Years later, there is still need to maintain a low level Exchange on-premises footprint to manage remote mailboxes. Even if Microsoft has made so progress by
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You may have missed the announcement earlier in April (Released: April 2025 Exchange Server Hotfix Updates | Microsoft Community Hub) but Exchange Hybrid configuration is transitioning to a dedicated Exchange Hybrid app in Entra instead of using Exchange Web Services (EWS). It is important to start transitioning now as starting August 19th 2025, Microsoft is
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As you know, SharePoint Online allows users to share links to files and folders. SharePoint Online administrators can set the permissions when user creates “Anyone sharing link”. Until now, the permissions available for sharing folders were only “View, Edit and Upload” or “View”. This cause a problem when you want to allow shared users to
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This has been a long awaited new administration role: Teams Reader. If you are managing Microsoft Teams, you already know you have various administration roles (6) allowing you delegating some aspect of Teams administration. Unfortunately, until now there was no way to grant a reader access to your Teams tenant. Well, good news as the
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As you are probably aware, Microsoft has announced the blocking of Exchange Web Services (EWS) on Exchange Online (see Retirement of Exchange Web Services in Exchange Online | Microsoft Community Hub) in October 2026. While many organization still rely on EWS for some activities, it is quite difficult to identify the use of EWS across
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Copilot has been a big trend for the past few months in Microsoft world. As an M365 service, Copilot can be used across signed in accounts in clients that allow you to sign in with multiple accounts. While you can use Copilot accross different accounts, the Copilot data protection is still applied which restrict data
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This functionality is only available on Outlook Web Access (aka OWA, aka Outlook on the Web) and new Windows Outlook client. You can now set a setting to automatically decline conflicting request meetings. From time to time, you may receive request meetings which are conflicting with events already in your calendar; most of the time
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As you know, Microsoft has been working on developing a new modern Outlook client matching the UI from Outlook Web Access and aimed to provide the same features and functionalities. While this new Outlook client has been generally available for some time with option for customers to control whether to use the classic or the
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