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Outlook – You can now reopen previously active windows after Outlook restart

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We all know the pain of having multiple Outlook windows opened (email, draft, reminders…) and loosing them when Outlook restart for various reasons (application crash, user action…) Well, good news if you are using Outlook Build 13006.20002 or later, you can now get these windows automatically reopened after the restart. You can configure the option using

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Outlook – You can now create quick pool with outlook (preview)

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By now you may already know Microsoft Forms and Microsoft Forms Pro, the survey/pool service from Office 365. Well, you can now create quick pool (using Forms) directly from Outlook. This feature is only available for Office Pro Plus (2007 Build 13029.20236 or later), running on Windows 10 2004 Build 12730.20000 or later; this is

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Exchange Online – A new resource type is being made available: Workspace

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You already know that Exchange has resource booking capabilities (such as room or equipment). Well a new resource type is being made available called Workspace. The idea of Workspace is a physical location (like hot desks or rooms) which can be booked for a minimum duration (starting at 3 hours – currently not configurable) and

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Teams – You can now manage your Teams Room from the Teams administration portal

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As you know you can modernize your meeting rooms by adding to them the Teams capabilities, known as Teams Room (formerly known as Lync Room System), by integrating your audio/video capabilities with Teams system (you can know more about it here https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/rooms/) Well, the Teams administration portal (https://admin.teams.microsoft.com/) has been updated to allow Teams administrator

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Office 365 – Updated retirement date for TLS 1.0/1.1

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As you may be aware, Microsoft is on the move to deprecate older TLS versions (TLS 1.0 and TLS 1.1) and make the switch to TLS 1.2. It has been announced last year (July 2019), retirement date for TLS 1.0 and TLS 1.1 was initially scheduled for June 2020 but with the unprecedent situation it

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Office 365 – Message center can now sync with Planner

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By now, you should know the Message Center in Office 365 Administration portal, the service used by Microsoft to announce updates, improvements or new services / capabilities for Office 365 services. Well, the Message Center can now sync with Planner, helping task automation for action. When you setup the Message Center integration with Planner, you

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SharePoint Online – File delete lockout overwrite in SharePoint Online

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SharePoint Online has now a file delete lockout overwrite feature. This capability will allow you to overwrite the file deletion lockout from the SharePoint Online document library when the document(s) you are trying to delete is/are already in use by somebody else (either by using Office client or Office on the Web). You will notice

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Stream – you can now enable noise suppression on uploaded videos

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A noise suppression capability has been added to Microsoft Stream, the enterprise video streaming from Microsoft available with Office 365. Stream is also used by Microsoft Teams to save recorded meetings. You can now enable noise suppression to automatically remove all background noise. NOTE this option is not available for recorded Teams meeting because the

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Outlook – Disable the mention feature

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By now, you are aware of the @mention feature in Outlook, allowing you to mention/tag a person or a group in the body of your email while also adding it in the TO field. If this feature is annoying for you, you can disable it from the Outlook options under the Mail\Send messages by unchecking

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