Office 365

Teams – A new policy setting is available to let administrators manage screen sharing in Teams Meeting

A new Teams Meeting policy setting is becoming available to let Teams administrators define how participant’s screen can (or can not) be shared. The option allows to define if the entire screen or only a single application can be shared as well as to entirely disable the option To set it up, access your Teams

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SharePoint Online – You can now share in ‘Review’ mode (apply to Word documents only)

As you know, when you share a document stored on SharePoint Online, the default mode is in Edit which can lead to unintended edit of the document. An update is being deployed (expected to be completed by end of May) which will allow you to set the default mode to Review, limiting editing actions to

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Exchange Online – You can now get Desktop notification from Outlook Web Access

If you use Outlook Web Access (aka OWA, aka Outlook on the Web) and a modern browser (Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge) you can now enable Desktop Notification to get notified when emails arrive while you are no longer browsing your mailbox but your browser is still running. To turn it on, logon to your mailbox

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Teams – Number of simultaneous participants shown in video is increasing

This has been an important customers request and Microsoft Teams is going to increase the number of simultaneous video participants in Teams meeting from 4 to 9. For more than 9 participants, those with video on will be prioritized to be shown on the stage. Participants with audio will be shown below the meeting stage.

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OneDrive – You can now access the file version history from OneDrive client and Windows Explorer

The OneDrive client has been updated and now provides access to the file version history from both the OneDrive client and Windows Explorer (for files synced with OneDrive).     You need run the OneDrive client version 20.052.0311.0006 or later to enjoy this new capability.

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SharePoint – The SharePoint Mobile application now supports custom branding

As you may know, you can customize the branding of your Office 365 tenant using your own logo and banner. This customization has been available for quite some time now, but there was one limitation: the SharePoint mobile app did not apply the customization and continue to display a standard/generic branding. Well, good new, it

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Teams – Team membership limit is going to be increase to 10 000 members

As you may know, there is some limits which apply to Microsoft Teams, one of them is the number of maximum members in a Team. Well good news, this limit is going to double by the end of May, going from 5 000 members to 10 000 members. This capacity increase will start by end

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Exchange Online – Hybrid Configuration Wizard Could not convert string to DateTimeOffset error

As you are now aware, the Exchange Hybrid Configuration Wizard (HCW) has been recently updated (see https://t.co/p3WYcmBpGD) to reach a new major version(17.xxx) Well, after updating the HCW to the latest version, you may face the following issue when you try to run it to configure or update your Exchange Hybrid Configuration when connecting to

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Exchange – A new major version of the Exchange Hybrid configuration Wizard is now available

As you know by now, you can setup Exchange in hybrid configuration to integrate your Exchange on-premises infrastructure with Exchange Online; this is done using the Hybrid Configuration Wizard (HCW) which is available for download and provide a wide range of configuration options (from lightweight to complete/classic configuration). Well, good new, the HCW just got

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Exchange Online – New version of the Exchange Online PowerShell (aka v2) is now available

As you know, managing Exchange and Exchange Online can be done from either the Exchange Administration Center (EAC) or with PowerShell modules. In the case of Exchange Online PowerSHell module, there has been already 2 major version; the first one with the initial release of Exchange Online years ago (which did not supported MFA) and

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