Office 365

Teams – Private channel is now here

It has been announced quite some time ago, Microsoft Teams Private Channel is now available. First thing, you need to ensure your administrator is allowing Private Channel (which should be on by default). To check the policy, logon to your Teams administration portal (https://admin.teams.microsoft.com/) and check the Teams policy/policies to ensure at least Create private

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Office 365 – You can define Favorites administration roles

As you already know, the Roles page on Office 365 administration portal (https://admin.microsoft.com/) allows you to manage Office 365 roles assigned to your users. Well, you can now define your favorites administration roles (aka the one you use/manage the most) to filter the available roles to only those ones. To set an administration role as

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Office – OneNote 2016 mainstream support is going to continue

For those who still use OneNote 2016 and still do not have moved to the OneNote Windows 10 app (I am one of them ) – probably because there is still to much gap between OneNote 2016 and OneNote app, here is a good news. Despite what was announced in 2018, Microsoft is reversing and

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

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

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

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)

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)

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

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

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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