Office 365

Teams – You can create new Teams based on existing one

A new Microsoft Teams creation process has been added to help you creating new Teams. The option allows you to reuse an existing Teams or Office 365 Groups to select as ‘template’ when creating a new Teams Off course, the first requirement is to be already owner of at least one Teams or Office 365 […]

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OneDrive for Business – A new capability is coming for OneDrive client to allow B2B libraries and folders

Starting June 17, 2019, the OneDrive client will allow B2B (Business to Business) – see https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/onedrive/b2b-sync – libraries and folders. This means end-users will be able to use OneDrive client to synchronize content from other organization they have been invited to. In addition, the ADMX (group policy definition) file for OneDrive has been updated to

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Office 365 / Azure AD – The limitation of the 16-characters password is now removed

Until today, when you were setting up a cloud password on Office 365 or Azure Active Directory (AAD), you were not able to use more than 16 characters. NOTE this limitation did apply to synchronized password. Now, this limitation has been removed; you can set your password by using up to 256 characters, with a

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Office 365 – New home for Secure Score

As you may be aware, Secure Score has been there for a while already, helping you understand your security posture on Office 365 and helping you improving it. Now, after the release of the new Microsoft Office Security Center (https://security.microsoft.com), Secure Score has moved to a new home hosted in this portal (https://security.microsoft.com/securescore?viewid=overview). Don’t get

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OneDrive – End-user can now request support from Microsoft from the client

The latest version of the OneDrive client (19.043.0304.0007) includes the capability for your end-user to request support from Microsoft directly. Using the More.. menu, accessible by right-clicking on the OneDrive icon in the systray, they can now open a support request to get assistance from Microsoft using the Get help As administrator you can disable

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Microsoft Teams – You can now set policies to prevent users or groups to communicate with each other

If you work in an environment where some information must not be shared with other departments or group of users – such as financial institution where people working on a deal, communication about this deal should not be shared with other departments to avoid potential conflict of interest, Teams now allows you to set a

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Azure / Office 365 – The new Azure AD Connect is here

As announced about a month ago (see https://t.co/OSCGCkdwMl), the new Azure Active Directory Connect (AAD Connect), the directory synchronization tool, is finally here. You can get it from https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=615771 The complete list of new feature and bug fixes as below: New features and improvements Add support for Domain Refresh Exchange Mail Public Folders feature goes

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SharePoint / Teams – Self-Recovery feature on SharePoint and Teams

After providing ability to restore OneDrive for Business files (we are not talking about the recycle bin here), Microsoft is now providing the same feature for SharePoint Online library and Microsoft Teams. This feature will be relevant in situation like when you suspect your files have been corrupted and/or infected by malware (let say like

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OneDrive for Business – Automatic file rename with invalid characters

As you know there are quite few unsupported characters in file or folder names for synching with OneDrive for Business (see https://support.office.com/en-us/article/invalid-file-names-and-file-types-in-onedrive-onedrive-for-business-and-sharepoint-64883a5d-228e-48f5-b3d2-eb39e07630fa) This is often a major problem with end-users. Well, the good news is Microsoft is pushing a OneDrive update to automatically help with these unsupported/invalid characters by renaming it for you. This new

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Teams – The Teams PowerShell module is now generally available

After being in preview for about a year, the PowerShell module for Microsoft Teams is now generally available. If you used the preview module, some PowerShell cmdlets did not make it to GA: Get-TeamFunSettings Set-TeamFunSettings Get-TeamGuestSettings Set-TeamGuestSettings Get-TeamMemberSettings Set-TeamMemberSettings Get-TeamMessagingSettings Set-TeamMessagingSettings These have been consolidated into the Get-Team / Set-Team commands The various cmdlets available

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