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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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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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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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
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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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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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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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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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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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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