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Exchange Online – You now make a pool when setting up a meeting

Setting up a meeting is always a challenge with some people, they are always busy Sometime ago I wrote a post about FindTime, an add-on for Outlook or Outlook on the Web (OWA). Now, Microsoft has integrated a similar feature in Exchange Online. When you create a new meeting request when using Outlook on the […]

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Exchange Online – You can undo a sent email

EDIT this functionality is/will be available also in Exchange 2016 On Premises with CU7 This happen all the time, you are sending an email and by the time you hit the Send button, you realize you have sent it to the wrong recipient(s). With Exchange we all know (or should know) the recall feature but

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Office 365 / Exchange Online – IMPORTANT – Connecting to your Exchange Online mailbox will require MAPI over HTTP

Starting October 31, 2017 (in about a year), accessing your Exchange Online mailbox with Outlook client on Windows will be made using MAPI over HTTP. This means that all client which do not support MAPI over HTTP (Outlook 2007 [by the way you should already have moved on as this is not supported anymore]) will

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Office 365 Groups / SharePoint Online – You can define if an Office 365 and a classic SharePoint site is created

As you know, sometime ago Microsoft has introduced Office 365 Groups as new collaborative services. You can now define on SharePoint Online Administration portal if an Office 365 or a classic SharePoint site can be created.   This administrative option is available from the SPO administration portal, below the Settings section under the Site Creation

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Exchange – You can access delegated mailboxes when running in hybrid mode

UPDATE 09/11/2016 Delegated access applies only for full access; send-as, send on behalf or delegation from Outlook do not work. Cross-premises permissions do not work in OWA Details https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj200581(v=exchg.150).aspx   This has been a major limitation of the Exchange Hybrid mode for quite long time. I just noticed that you can now have access to

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Exchange Online – Manage Save sent items into the Sent Items folder and Automatic Reply of the Shared Mailbox from the admin portal

As you know, it has been possible to save all sent items to the Sent Items folder of a shared mailbox instead of the Sent Items folder of the user sending since Exchange 2013 CU9. Off course, this is also available on Exchange Online but for both (On Premises or Online) you had to use

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Office 365 / Exchange – Convert your distribution lists to Office 365 Groups

A new feature is being rolled out to allow you to convert your distribution lists to Office 365 Groups.   What can be converted to Office 365 Groups The following table defines what can be converted (as of today – August 5th, 2016) Distribution Group Types Eligibility Mail enabled security group. Not eligible On-premise managed

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Office 365 / Exchange Online – You can now define the attachment types you want to block

An update on Exchange Online is now allowing administrators to define attachment types policy to define what they want to block or authorize. To update your configuration, open your Exchange Online ECP (https://outlook.office365.com/ecp/) and go to the the Protection section to access the Malware filter options. Then either edit the exiting policies or create a

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Office 365–Office 365 Groups now support multi domain and ability to update privacy type

Microsoft has deployed (or currently being deployed) an update to the Office 365 Groups feature to allow customer to use multi domain in Groups as well as the ability to update the privacy type (public and private) AFTER the creation.   Multi Domain Support The multi domain support is added and available only through PowerShell.

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Exchange Online – Additional safety tips in Outlook and Outlook on the Web

As you may know, Exchange Online is already protected with Exchange Online Protection (protection you can improve with the E5 license and Advanced Threats Management). That said, the EOP security is already quite good and performing well, but even with this, sometime when a message is being put into the Junk Email folder, the end-user

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