Office 365

Exchange – Outlook Mobile support for S/MIME is coming

It is about time, Outlook Mobile on iOS and Android is now supporting S/MIME (Secure Multipurpose Internal Mail Extensions). This means you will be able to send and receive (and as such read) signed and/or encrypted emails with Outlook Mobile. To start using it, you must have a valid S/MIME certificate off course – manual […]

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Teams – Stand out your post using the “Announcement” type

A new post type has been added to Microsoft Teams to help you pushing announcement or important message by standing out from the mass of messages If you want to publish an announcement in Teams, click on the Format button (bottom of conversation box) and switch from New conversation to Announcement   Then the conversation

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Office 365 – The Adoption Resources center, your one shop for adoption documentation

A new central location for regrouping all adoption documentation for Office 365 services is now live at https://aka.ms/microsoftadoption You can find there the latest and updated adoption documentation for Office 365 services, like Microsoft Office 365 Adoption Guide, the new security and compliance toolkit or Teams governance. Start enjoying this location for your adoption journey

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Teams – You can now define holidays

Microsoft Teams now allows you to define your organization holidays (aka the period your organization is shutting down and won’t be available for business). This can be linked with auto-attendant you may have configured for voice capabilities. To start using it and configure your next organization time off, go to your Teams administration portal (https://admin.teams.microsoft.com)

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Exchange Online – You can now also use Azure Cloud Shell to connect to Exchange Online with PowerShell

A new capability has been added to Azure Cloud Shell, you can now use it to also connect to Exchange Online with PowerShell. To remind you as there are maybe few (lot?) of Exchange administrator who do not know what is Azure Cloud Shell, this is the ability to connect to cloud resources (in this

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Azure AD Connect – Potential vulnerability in version 1.3.20.0

A vulnerability in Azure Active Directory Connect (Azure AD Connect), the directory synchronization tool for Office 365/Azure AD, version 1.3.20.0 (the latest one released last late April) has been found. This vulnerability may lead to an elevation of privileges, under specific conditions, allowing an attacker to execute 2 PowerShell cmdlets in the context of a

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Office 365 – New security management tool available in preview

A new security tool is now available in preview in Office 365 called Security Policy Advisor. The Security Policy Advisor is providing recommendations to help improve and increase security of your Office 365 ProPlus deployment to protect you against threats and provide insights on impact of deploying policies. The Security Policy Advisor can be used

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Office 365 – Office 365 Groups/Teams naming policy is now manageable from Azure AD portal

You may already know that you can define naming policy for your Office 365 Groups, which also applies to Microsoft Teams. Until now, this was done by connection with PowerShell. Now, you can manage (create/update) your naming policy as well as the blocked words list from your Azure AD portal. Connect to your Azure (https://portal.azure.com)

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