Office 365

Office 365 – A new administration role is available to delegate administration of Kaizala

You may know Kaizala has been the youngest and latest service added to Office 365, providing phone-based collaboration capabilities. Until then, to manage Kaizala you had to be an Office 365 Global Administrator; well, not anymore, a new administration role is now available to delegate administration of Kaizala without granting global administration: Kaizala admin

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Azure AD Connect – New depreciation process starting November 2020

As you already know, Azure AD Connect (AAD Connect) is the directory synchronization tool for Azure AD and Office 365. Azure AD Connect is getting frequently updated (about once a month), introducing new functionalities and bug fixes. Well, starting November 2020 you will have to ensure you are running a version which is not older

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Office 365 – Apply client policy to your Office installation from Office 365

You may not be aware but you can create user policies for Office 365 Pro Plus and apply them from your Office 365 tenant using Office Client Policy Service (OCPS). Policies created with OCPS are user settings only (for now, machine settings will come some time next year) and are roaming with the user account,

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Office 365 – A new attack simulator scenario is now available

As you may already know, about a year ago, Microsoft has introduced a security tool to Office 365 called Attack Simulator to help administrator and security teams to simulate attacks to their Office 365 tenant to find vulnerable accounts before a real attack occurs. Well, the Office 365 Attack Simulator has been updated to include

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Teams – Meeting chats are now muted by default

Microsoft Teams has been updated to mute by default meeting chats to help you reduce the notification noise. The meeting chats are muted until you either send a message in the chat or (re)join the meeting. You can manage the default behaviour and turn notification back on by accessing the Settings\Notifications and switching the Meeting

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Teams – OneDrive is now integrated into Teams

OneDrive for Business is now integrated with Teams; this means you can access your files stored in OneDrive directly from Teams. To access your OneDrive files from Teams, just access the Files blade and locate OneDrive under the Cloud Storage section You can even create new content directly from Teams and/or synchronize your OneDrive for

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Teams – Linux users can use Teams

As announced sometime ago (see https://t.co/M8hBbz50n4), the Teams client for Linux operating system is now available at https://aka.ms/get-teams-linux The Teams client is the first Office 365/Microsoft 365 application coming to Linux OS. With this release, all operating systems (Windows, MacOS, Android, iOS and now Linux) have a Teams client available.

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Forms – You can now use a file upload field

As you may know, Microsoft Forms is one the lightweight form capability available on Office 365. A new question type has just been added to Microsoft Forms (roll out is expected to be completed by end of December 2019): file upload With this new field type, you can let respondents to upload file when answering

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Azure AD Connect – You can now provision cloud identity from disconnected Active Directory

As you already know Azure Active Directory Connect (AAD Connect) is the easiest and quickest way to provision identities in Azure AD, especially for large organization, while providing simple authentication method to cloud services (password hash sync, Seamless SSO…). That being said, you may find yourself in position you have to quickly provide cloud identities

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Office – Office 365 administrators can now manage the ‘What’s new” user experience (preview)

As you know, since the introduction of the Office Click-to-Run (Office C2R) installation methods, Microsoft has been improving communication to raise awareness of what is coming/new after your Office installation has been updated. Until now, Office 365 administrators did not had much control on managing this “What’s new” feature. Well, good new, such management capability

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