Office 365

Teams – You can now apply Legal Holds on Teams

As  ore and more activities occur on Microsoft Teams, the Office 365 Compliance team is now providing ability to put on Legal Hold Teams content (including private channels) on Legal Hold when you need to prevent content tampering. To do so,, logon to your Office 365 Compliance portal (either https://protection.office.com/ or https://compliance.microsoft.com/ [the new Compliance […]

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Exchange Online – It is now easier to allow end-users to report message and provide customized message

Exchange and Security & Compliance administrators now have the ability to enable the ‘Report Message’ add-in from the Security and Compliance portal (https://protection.office.com/) through the Threat Management\Policy blade In addition of this move, you can also configure a customized message which will be displayed before and/or after submitting message using the add-in.

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Office 365 – Office 365 Pro is changing the default search engine

Coming with the version 2002 of Office 365 Pro Plus, a browser extension is going to be installed on Chrome to make Bing the default search engine. This change is scheduled to be deployed starting February 2020 for the Targeted channel, March 2010 for the Monthly channel and with the next release for Semi-Annual channel.

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Office 365 – A change in Chrome may break your sites

Google Chrome is introducing a major/breaking change in the way websites and cookies are handled with the coming Chrome 80, planned for released later on Feb 4th, 2020. It is important you prepare yourself and be ready for this change. What can you do? While you are testing and evaluating the potential impact this new

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Azure AD – Don’t forget to exclude the directory synchronization accounts from conditional access

The following issue occurred for one of my customers after enabling MFA for all users. The directory synchronization stopped working. The above situation may not occur often as usually you are excluding trusted locations (aka your corporate network public endpoints) from applying conditional policies – especially when enabling MFA – and your Azure AD Connect

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Outlook Web Access – A new look when accessing OWA using your mobile web browser

The following is not about the Outlook Mobile app but about Outlook Web Access (OWA), also known as Outlook on the Web, when accessed using your mobile web browser. A new look is available for OWA is now available and turned on by default, but you can opt-out at any time by switching the toggle.

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OneDrive for Business – Disable Windows permission inheritance when syncing read-only content

As you may know, when you are synching content using OneDrive for Business client on your Windows device, ‘local’ Windows permissions are inherited. With this new configuration setting, you can now disable this inheritance for folder(s) with read-only access. NOTE this ‘read-only’ setting will not change permission on SharePoint It is not recommended to enable

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Skype for Business Online – Retirement scheduled for July 2021

It has been announced some time ago already, Skype for Business Online is being retired on July 31, 2021. After this date, Skype for Business Online (SfBO) will no longer be available or accessible. If you are using Skype for Business Online, you need to plan now your migration to Microsoft Teams. Between now and

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Azure AD / Office 365 – 3 new administration roles available

In the way to limit the need and use of the global administrator role, 3 new administration roles have been made available: Groups administrator to delegate groups (Azure AD security groups, Office 365 Groups, Teams or Yammer) management, covering naming convention, expiration policy or even AAD security group restoration Office apps administrator allows you delegating

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Exchange Online – Outlook on the Web (aka OWA) is now providing a room card

As you know Outlook on the Web (aka Outlook Web Access) is getting frequent improvements. The latest one is the rooms are now getting a card providing all relevant details, including a map. This card is only available when using Outlook Web Access. Off course this requires you have set all the relevant room details.

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