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Office 365 – Cloud Shell is now also available on Office 365 Administration portal

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You may be already aware of Cloud Shell, a feature introduced with Azure allowing you to run PowerShell commands directly from the web browser (https://shell.azure.com/), which then has been extended to allow you to also connect to Exchange Online. Well, now it is the turn of Office 365 as Cloud Shell just makes his appearance […]

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Azure – Azure MFA will now be enabled by default and free

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As just announced at the Microsoft Ignite 2019 Conference, Azure Multi Factor Authentication (Azure MFA) will now be enabled by default for all new Azure AD (and Office 365 or Dynamics as they rely on Azure AD) tenant and will be also free for existing customers with the Microsoft Authenticator app (available on Android https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.azure.authenticator

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Teams – You can now define policy package

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As you already know you can define Teams policies (aka Messaging, Meeting, Application, Calling or Live Events policies) to define various settings for Teams client. This means for each Teams functionality you had/have to create a policy and then apply it to the users; which then could results in configuration/policy inconsistency as every policy is

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Teams – You can now use Teams Advisor to help you rollout Teams (preview)

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While Teams usage is growing, it can be difficult to properly start rolling out Microsoft Teams. Microsoft has deployed a new capability in Teams, called Teams Advisor, to help you rolling out and increase Teams usage. The Teams Advisor assess your Office 365 tenant to determine the most common configuration you may have to implement

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Azure AD Connect / ADFS – You can now stage your migration from AD FS (preview)

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When you are moving to cloud services (in this case Office 365 and/or Azure Active Directory/Azure), it is important that the authentication process is working seamlessly when you are moving away from federated authentication services (AD FS, Okta…) to cloud authentication. This means you need to be able to test and validate the process. Until

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OneDrive – You can now markup a PDF copy of an Office document

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The OneDrive mobile application for Android allows you to create a PDF copy of an Office document (Word, Excel or PowerPoint) and leverage the markup capabilities to highlight or make note to the document without changing the original one. To start using it you need (of course) the OneDrive for Android mobile application (available here

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Exchange Online – A new enhanced filtering settings

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As you are aware, properly configured inbound connectors to Exchange Online is very important to ensure proper and secure mail flow (including capability to fight against spam and phishing emails). While the trusted source is usually identified as the IP address(es), in complex scenario – such as third party hygiene solution, Exchange Hybrid implementation or

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Exchange Online – A new administration role is being deployed: Quarantine Administrator

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This was a missing role since the beginning of Office 365 and Exchange Online to allow the delegation of the administration of the quarantine. Before you had to create your very own Exchange Role with the correct permissions – Mail Recipient, Message Tracking, Transport Hygiene and View-Only Configuration (which was not easy to find as

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Office – New GPO settings available to give easier access to Insider option

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As you know, Office 365 Pro Plus (aka Office Click to Run) can be enabled to join the Office Insider program in order to get early access to new features – like the Windows Insider program for Windows 10. Until then, application administrators did not had much choice to enable/disable and lock down the access

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Office 365 – You can now get email notification from the Service Health dashboard

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As you already know, Office 365 provides a service dashboard helping you to be aware of any service issue. That said, this service dashboard may be unavailable when the issue is affecting the authentication process (either authentication itself or MFA services). Well, you can now have email notification when some services are degraded or are

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