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

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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

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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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Azure AD Connect – Potential vulnerability in version 1.3.20.0

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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

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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

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

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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

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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

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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

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

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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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