Office 365

Exchange Online – Classic administration portal is being retired

As Exchange Online administrator, you may be already aware there has been a new and modern Exchange Online administration portal available (https://admin.exchange.microsoft.com/). Well, the classic Exchange Online administration portal (https://outlook.office365.com/ecp) is going to be retired starting October 15, 2021 and will be fully removed by September 1, 2022. Starting October 2021, features related to security […]

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SharePoint Online – You can now disable SharePoint 2013 workflow creation

As you know, SharePoint Online has been providing workflow capabilities since its beginning. Well, after having decommissioned SharePoint 2010 workflow in 2020 (see https://t.co/VOoO4cow3w), Microsoft is retiring SharePoint 2013 workflow on SharePoint Online. SharePoint 2010 workflow and SharePoint 2013 workflow remain supported on-premises until 2026 for SharePoint 2016 and SharePoint 2019. As announced in 2020,

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Exchange Online – New endpoint for SMTP AUTH clients still using TLS 1.0 or TLS 1.1; act before 2022

If you use Office 365 and Exchange Online, you should already know that support for TLS 1.0 and TLS 1.1 has ended in October 2020. While the support of these legacy TLS protocols has ended, this is still in use and available for connection. Starting 2022, TLS 1.0 and TLS 1.1 will be completely disabled

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Outlook – Coming soon, updated interface matching the web one

If you are using Microsoft Office 365 apps (aka Office) and have the ‘Coming soon’ (see https://t.co/1ZuhCEEkFk) enabled, you can turn on now an updated interface which is matching the one on the web. The navigation bar is moving from the bottom to the left side and now provides access to your Office applications too

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Yammer – You can now apply retention policy to Yammer users and communities messages

As you may know, Yammer became the enterprise social network from Microsoft on Office 365 few years ago. While there has been not much evolution on Yammer over the past few years, there is one big news: you can now apply retention policies on Yammer messages, in preview. To apply a retention policy on Yammer,

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SharePoint Online – Changes coming for PST file retention

As you know, you can enable retention policies on SharePoint Online and OneDrive to keep records of your data for a defined period. Off course, these policies applies to files stored on SharePoint, including PST file. The retained data is kept on a dedicated list called Preservation Hold Library within the SharePoint/OneDrive site; which means

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Exchange Online Protection – It is now easier to enable the ‘First Contact Safety Tip’

As you may already know, Exchange Online Protection has been able to provide a ‘First Contact Safety Tip’ to display a notification to end-user when they receive an email from somebody for the first time to make them pay more attention in case of potential phishing.   Well, until then, this ‘First Contact Safety Tip’

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