Office 365

Exchange – You can now add shared mailbox on Outlook Mobile

This has been a very long awaited capability; adding shared mailbox on Outlook mobile without having to logon as the shared mailbox (aka using active account). To add a shared mailbox, open your Outlook Mobile application and access the Settings to add an account, you then will be able to choose Shared Mailbox If you

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Skype for Business Online – External access settings being retired from the administration portal

As you may already know, it has been announced that Skype for Business Online will be retired from Office 365 on July 31, 2021. With this move, some administration capabilities are already being retired. The ‘External Access’ setting for Skype for Business in the Office 365 Administration portal, available in the ‘Settings\Services & add-ins\Skype for

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Office 365 – You can now set a time zone when opening a support request

This is a feature which should have been there since the beginning of Office 365; you can now define a time zone, as well as a secondary language, when you open a support request on Office 365. This does not seem to be a huge improvement but talk to people working in a multinational with

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Teams – Voicemail settings are now available in Teams client

While Microsoft Teams is scheduled to take over Skype for Business Online, Teams client is closing slowly but surely features gap with SfB. A new settings to let end-users manage their voicemail has appear in Teams client. To manage your voicemail settings – including your greeting message – open the Teams client and open the

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Office 365 – It is now simpler to submit suspicious content to Microsoft for investigation

As you may already know, with Office 365 and Exchange Online you already had to the possibility to report suspicious content (in that case email) by using the Report Message add-in (an the other way around too if an email was identified as spam but was not). Well, now it is becoming simpler for Office

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SharePoint Online – You can now swap sites

We all know that, SharePoint sites design and structure are define once and far all at at a specific time; meaning it is quite difficult to change later on the structure of sites. Well, good news, SharePoint Online is now allowing you to swap sites (aka site collections); the ‘original’ site will be archived. To

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Teams – Teams is getting Advanced Threat Protection support

As you may already know, Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) has been supported and integrated with SharePoint and OneDrive for quite some time now. Well, good news, Microsoft Teams is now getting ATP support too, providing better security for files uploaded. If you already have turned on ATP for SharePoint and OneDrive, you have nothing to

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SharePoint Online – You can now define sharing link expiration on per site basis

As you may already know, you can define an expiration time (between 1 to 720 days) for anyone sharing link (aka anonymous link) from the SharePoint Administration portal   This setting applies to all SharePoint Online site without any exception. Well, this is changing as now you can set a ‘custom’ expiration time for specific

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Exchange Online – New CMDlet for Room mailboxes and better booking capabilities

Room management and booking has been improved in Exchange Online with the add of new CMDlet to set additional properties (like features – such as video and/or audio capabilities, building and/or floor location and many other). These new properties can then be used by end-users when booking a room for a meeting. The update deployment

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Skype for Business Online – Will be retired by July 31 2021

It has just been announced that Skype for Business Online (SfBO) will be retired by July 31 2021. Starting September 2019, new Office 365 tenant will be on-boarded directly to Microsoft Teams. This announcement has no impact for Skype (consumer) or Skype for Business On-Premises. You can get the complete announcement here https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Microsoft-Teams-Blog/Skype-for-Business-Online-to-Be-Retired-in-2021/ba-p/777833?fbclid=IwAR0TvAbcRBZAnGm5fxpaEoYsaPvHfHyH1VyEMEE35AQ5tqAIwDH1elBiodc

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