Office 365 26 - Benoit's Corner

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

Leave a Comment / Exchange, Office 365, Security / Benoit HAMET / October 30, 2019 / Admin Role, Administration Role, Exchange, Exchange Online, O365, Office 365, Quarantine, Quarantine Administrator, RBAC

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

Leave a Comment / Office, Office 365 / Benoit HAMET / October 29, 2019 / GPO, Group Policy, Group Policy Object, Insider, Office, Office 365 C2R, Office 365 Click-To-Run, Office C2R, Office Click-To-Run, Office Insider

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

4 Comments / Office 365 / Benoit HAMET / October 28, 2019 / O365, Office 365, Service Health

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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Teams – You can now post in multiple channel at once

Leave a Comment / Microsoft Teams, Office 365 / Benoit HAMET / October 25, 2019 / Channels, Cross-post, Microsoft Teams, Post in Multiple Channel, Teams

Sometime, you need to post message to multiple Teams channels. Until now you had to re write all the time (or a copy/paste) your post across all the channels you wanted to post to. Well, good news, Teams now allows you to post in multiple channel at once. To do that, open your Teams client

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Exchange / Azure Information Protection – Sensitivity labels can now be applied when using OWA and/or Outlook Mobile

Leave a Comment / Exchange, Office 365, Security / Benoit HAMET / October 24, 2019 / AIP, Azure Information Protection, Azure Information Protection Unified Labelling, Exchange, Outlook Mobile, Outlook on the Web, Outlook Web Access, OWA, Sensitivity Labels

As you may know Azure Information Protection (AIP) provides the capability to define and apply sensitivity labels on documents and emails (when using Outlook client). Good new, the AIP sensitivity labelling capability is now available also on Outlook Web Access (OWA) – aka Outlook on the Web – and Outlook Mobile. When you write an

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Exchange Online – You can now RSVP instantly when using OWA

Leave a Comment / Exchange, Office 365 / Benoit HAMET / October 23, 2019 / Exchange, Exchange Online, ExO, Outlook on the Web, Outlook Web Access, OWA

After becoming available on Outlook Mobile (see https://t.co/1LcJGaBI8j), you can now also instantly reply to an meeting request when you are using Outlook Web Access (aka Outlook on the Web). Just select the meeting invite and you will immediately get the options to reply (Yes, Maybe, No, Propose another time with the possibility to add

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Outlook Mobile – You can now use SMIME on Outlook Mobile

2 Comments / Exchange, Office 365 / Benoit HAMET / October 23, 2019 / Classic Outlook, Outlook Mobile, S/MIME, SMIME

After being able to add a shared mailbox on Outlook mobile (see https://t.co/MkG56cl1TT), another long awaited feature is now available on your Outlook mobile application: the use of SMIME. To start using, you need of course an SMIME certificate – I will not go in details there on how or where to get SMIME certificates,

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OneDrive for Business – End-users can now get a report on their shared content

Leave a Comment / Office 365, SharePoint / Benoit HAMET / October 18, 2019 / OdB, ODfB, OneDrive, OneDrive for Business, Sharing Report

As you know, sharing on SharePoint Online and OneDrive for Business is a quite easy capability (especially when sharing with your colleagues). That said, it was quite difficult for end-users to have a clear view on what and how their content stored on OneDrive for Business was shared. This is no longer a problem as

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SharePoint Online – You can now change the URL of a SharePoint site

Leave a Comment / Office 365, SharePoint / Benoit HAMET / October 17, 2019 / Change URL, Rename URL, SharePoint, SharePoint Online, SharePoint Online Administration Portal, SPO, SPO Admin Portal, SPO Administration Portal

SharePoint Online has got a long awaited feature: you can now change/rename URL of a SharePoint Online site. This capability applies to: Classic team sites Communication sites Modern team sites that don’t belong to an Office 365 group Office 365 group-connected team sites NOTE if you have enabled a retention policy on SharePoint sites, you

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Teams – Teams clients which did not update for more than 3 months will be forced to update

Leave a Comment / Microsoft Teams, Office 365 / Benoit HAMET / October 16, 2019 / Microsoft Teams, MS Teams, O365, Office 365, Teams

As you may know, the Microsoft Teams client is self-updating itself on a regular basis (documented as every 2 weeks). That being said, it may be possible (and obviously it seems to be the case) that the Teams client is not being updated for a long period of time. To ensure end-users are always running

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