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Exchange Online – New cmdlet to help investigate transport and DLP rules

Troubleshooting transport or DLP rules is sometime a tricky thing. Exchange administrator can now use a new cmdlet – Test-Message – to investigate why transport rule did not trigger or work as expected. Test-Message –Sender <sender email address – can be external> –Recipients <recipient email address – can be external> –SendReportTo <report recipient email address> …

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Forms – You can now add background music to your Forms

By now, you probably already know Microsoft Forms, the form./quiz feature from Office 365. Since its introduction, Forms has evolved to provide more capabilities, including more customization options. Well, you can now also add background music to entertain users when filling up your form. To do so, just create or edit a Forms (https://forms.office.com/) and …

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Office 365 – You can now export your Office policy configurations

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)

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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Forms – You can now use animated themes

As you may know, you can apply themes to your Microsoft Forms to make it more enjoyable. Well, you can now also apply animated themes (2 at this time). To use one of the animated themes, create/edit your form and select the Themes button and select one of the 2 animated themes identifiable using the …

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Exchange Online – You can now manage the message expiration timeout

As you know, when sending a message using Exchange or Exchange Online, there is a timeout when the system is not able to deliver the message before sender receive the Non Delivery Report (NDR). This timeout is to 24 hours by default and it was not possible to change it; well, until now. You can …

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Exchange Online – ReportJunkEmailEnabled is being deprecated

As you Exchange and Exchange Online have a mailbox policy parameter to allow reporting junk email (ReportJunkEmailEnabled – see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/exchange/set-owamailboxpolicy?view=exchange-ps#-reportjunkemailenabled). In addition of this parameter, you also have the Report message add-in (see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/security/office-365-security/enable-the-report-message-add-in?view=o365-worldwide) which allows to report junk/phishing emails or false positive. Well, starting November 25, 2022 (expected to be completed by December 10, …

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Exchange Online – You can now customize sender and subject for quarantine notification

If you use Exchange Online Protection for your email hygiene, you know that you can notify your end-users when emails have been put in quarantine. This is notification is sent using a generic Microsoft email address (quarantine@messaging.microsoft.com) and subject (Microsoft 365 security: You have messages in quarantine). Well, go news as you can now customize …

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Exchange Online – You will be able to recall read messages

As you probably know, Exchange has always been able to let senders to recall messages (delivered to recipients in the same organization). The recall feature has always been misunderstood by end-users as it was not possible to recall message already read or sent outside the organization. Well, the recall feature is being updated to now …

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Exchange Online – A new Exchange Online PowerShell module – v3 – is available

  If you use Office 365, you are probably also been using Exchange Online.   As such you are probably already aware that few administrations tasks need to be done using the Exchange Online PowerShell module.   This module has gone under multiple iteration and is now in version 2 (also known as Exchange Online …

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