Office 365

Exchange Online – A new ‘Deleted’ folder appears in OWA in your Contacts

If you are using Outlook Web Access (aka OWA, aka Outlook on the Web) (https://outlook.office.com/), you will notice in your Contacts a new folder has appeared called Deleted The idea of this Deleted folder in your Contacts is to simplify the recovery of mistakenly deleted contacts; instead of going through all the deleted items in

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Teams – The phone number management is now part of the Teams administration portal

With the move from Skype for Business Online to Microsoft Teams, the Teams product group is being busy to fill all remaining gaps between the 2 products, including administration capabilities. Well, another step has been completed with the integration of the Voice\Phone numbers management capabilities in the Microsoft Teams administration portal (https://admin.teams.microsoft.com/). The phone number

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Azure AD Connect – You can now synchronize your password policy and force the password change at next logon (preview)

As you know, you have been able to synchronize your user’s passwords with Azure AD Connect for quite some time now thanks to the password hash synchronization feature. However, there has been a small gap there: you were not able to get the “User must change password at next logon” attribute value synchronized to request

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Azure AD / Office 365 – New Global Reader built-in role is coming

It has been a long awaited capability: being able to give a complete read-access only to Azure AD/Office 365 administration. Well good news, a read-only administrative access role is coming – called Global Reader. The deployment will start on September 24 and scheduled to be completed by October. It worth noting that few limitations will

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Outlook Mobile – You can now reply to meeting request directly from the push notification

The Outlook mobile application (iOS: https://apps.apple.com/app/microsoft-outlook/id951937596 – Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.microsoft.office.outlook) has been updated and allows you to reply to meeting request directly from the push notification.

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Office 365 – The self service migration tool from Office 365 Video to Microsoft Stream is available

As you may already know, the Office 365 Video service is being replaced by Microsoft Stream. If you have been using Office 365 Video to publish videos, you can now start migrating it to Microsoft Stream using the self-service migration tool. If you don’t see it, you can request to register your tenant using the

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Azure AD – A new major version of Azure AD Connect has been released

UPDATE Oct 8th, 2019 it has been reported that some issues with Self-Service Password Reset (SSPR) and Hybrid Azure AD join have been reported. Microsoft has recommended to post-pone upgrading to the 1.4.18.0 version until root cause has been identified and solved. Regarding the SSPR, a new version has been already released for auto-upgrade only

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Exchange Online – You can now get additional information related to your meetings in Outlook Web Access

If you use Outlook Web Access (aka Outlook on the Web) with Exchange Online, you can now get more insights for your meetings. When you check your meeting in OWA, Outlook will find additional relevant information from emails from your mailbox and/or files saved in OneDrive (including shared ones) or SharePoint Online, helping you getting 

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Exchange Online – New file type being added into the blocked list

New file types will be added into the block file type list. Based on Microsoft’s evaluation, these file types are rarely used. If one of these file types is already added into your allowed list, it will not be added into the blocked list. The below table lists the new file type being blocked: File

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Office 365 – You can now report service incident from the Service Health dashboard

The Office 365 administration portal (admin preview) has been updated to include a way to report service incident to Microsoft. If you are impacted by a service issue not yet reported you can submit an incident report. This feature is currently being deployed to targeted tenant (aka preview. To start using it, logon to your

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