Office 365

OneDrive for Business – You can now manage user storage limits from the administration portal

As you know Office 365 provides a personal storage space with OneDrive for Business. You also now you can define the storage limit (quota) applicable to all users. Good news, you can now define individual limit for OneDrive for Business directly from the Office 365 administration portal; meaning if you need to decrease/increase limit for

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Exchange Online – Outlook Web Access now also redirect to on-premises

If you work with Exchange and Exchange Online in hybrid mode, you already know that when a mailbox is moved to Exchange Online, the on-premises Exchange redirect/notify the user to access Exchange Online Outlook Web Access URL when using the ‘old’/on-premises OWA URL. Well, now Exchange Online can do the same for mailboxes still on

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Office 365 – Manage modern authentication for Exchange Online from the administration portal

As you know Microsoft has been recommending to turn off basic authentication protocols for some time now. Well, until now you had to manage this by implementing an Azure AD Conditional Access policy or by implementing an authentication policies for Exchange Online. Well, you can now manage basic authentication access for Exchange Online directly from

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

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)

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

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

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

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

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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