Office 365

Outlook – Join meeting button may disappear if the meeting link is not using HTTPS

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For quite some time, Outlook clients have been showing a Join button to join a meeting, especially when using Teams for the meeting but also for other meeting providers, such as Zoom. While most of meeting providers integrating with Outlook should have been using HTTPS connection, there may still be some still not using HTTPS

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Office 365 – Update repair in inventory from the Apps admin center

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Starting mid-October 2026 until end of November (preview between mid-October to end of October, GA from mid-November to end of November), a new capability is being added on the Apps admin center (Microsoft 365 Apps admin center) – the portal to manage Office apps installation, configuration and monitoring. The new capability will allow a remote

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Windows – Retirement of Companion Apps

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For quite some time, Windows always came with what is called “companion apps” (Calendar, People…) which were also automatically pinned to the taskbar (unless device is being managed). Well, these companion apps are being retired in December 16th, 2026. This means they no longer be updated and will also stop functioning. While most devices in

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Entra/Office 365 – Group based license assignments failing

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For the past few months, I have seen multiple group based license assignments failing on different tenants. While there is no official communication (Message Center or other communication channels), the only option has been to open a support request to Microsoft to initiate a “back-end” sync. Once this sync has been proceed, the group based

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Office – You can now restrict new file creation in Office desktop apps to Cloud Locations

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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

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Office 365 – You must configure local network access before end of September for Chromium based browsers

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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

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Exchange Online – Cloud managed remote mailboxes

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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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Exchange – Transition to dedicated Exchange Hybrid application

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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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SharePoint Online – New “View and upload” permission for anyone links

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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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Teams – New Teams administration role – reader

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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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