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Office 365 – New services being moved under the cloud.microsoft umbrella

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As announced in April 2023, Microsoft has been implementing a global umbrella domain (cloud.microsoft) for Office 365 services (Office 365 – New unified domain for Office 365 services (hametbenoit.info)). After moving some services (Office 365 – Transitioning to cloud.microsoft domain (hametbenoit.info) and Office 365 – Continuous move to cloud.microsoft domain; new services moved (hametbenoit.info)), new […]

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Outlook – The new Outlook client can now work offline

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As you may know, Microsoft has been working on a new Outlook client (Getting started with the new Outlook for Windows – Microsoft Support) to allow streamlining new features with Outlook on the Web. One of the most requested (and missing) feature for this new client is (/was) the ability to work offline, the same

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Office 365 – Continuous move to cloud.microsoft domain; new services moved

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As you are probably aware now, Microsoft has been working on consolidating and moving all its Office 365 cloud services under the same domain umbrella cloud.microsoft (as announced in April 2023, see Office 365 – New unified domain for Office 365 services (hametbenoit.info)). There has been already few services moved under this umbrella – such

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Entra ID – Starting September 1st, 2024 you will have to use M365 administration portal to manage license assignments

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If you have been using the Entra ID portal (https://entra.microsoft.com/) to manage and assign licenses for Microsoft cloud services, you will have to use the M365 administration portal to do so starting September 1st, 2024. Starting this date, the Entra ID Licenses blade will be deprecated. If you are using group based licensing, this will

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Teams / Outlook – You can now see the attendees time zone when scheduling meetings

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When working with peoples split across different time zone – such as peoples in different countries or on a different time zone within a country, it is not always easy to identify their corresponding time zone and as such their local time. This situation has quite a big impact when scheduling meetings. Well, good news

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Exchange Online Protection – You can now get end-user to receive automated feedback result

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If you use Exchange Online, you know you can be protected from spam and phishing emails using Exchange Online Protection (aka Defender for Office 365). In addition, you can also get your end-users to report spam or phishing emails which may have gone through the protection filters using the Report Message add-in in Outlook (client,

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Outlook – New Outlook client and OWA now offer ‘in-person’ option when setting up meeting

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For the past few years, we have been moving to a more ‘online’ world. That has introduced some challenges when setting up meeting. Well, the new Outlook client (not the Win32 one) and Outlook Web Access now offer an option to mark a meeting as ‘in-person event’. This new option also allows attendees to respond

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SharePoint Online – Improved versioning capabilities

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As you may already know, SharePoint Online (and OneDrive for Business too) offers a document versioning capability, which is enable by default, to help you keep track of document updates and – optionally – recovers from user errors or malware recovery. This versioning capability is included in your SharePoint storage consumption, while most of the

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Office 365 – Transitioning to cloud.microsoft domain

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  Few months ago (in April 2023), Microsoft has announced that all Office 365 related services will use a unified cloud.microsoft domain (see https://blog.hametbenoit.info/2023/11/16/azure-virtual-desktop-a-new-application-preview/).   Well, these services have started to be transitioned to this new unified domain: Microsoft Service Health Status is now https://status.cloud.microsoft/ M365/Office 365 Setup is now https://setup.cloud.microsoft/ M365/Office 365 Administration Center

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Microsoft Forms – You can now synchronize Forms answers in Excel (preview)

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With Office 365, you have access to Microsoft Forms to create surveys. Survey’s answers are save as CSV file you can download. Well, until then this was the only way to gather Forms’ answers. Not anymore, you can now have a live synchronization with Excel. To do so, access your Form to get the Responses,

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