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Office 365 – You can now manage ownerless Office 365 Groups and Teams

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By now, you may be familiar with Office 365 Groups and/or Teams (if not have a look here https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/learn-about-microsoft-365-groups-b565caa1-5c40-40ef-9915-60fdb2d97fa2 or https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/office-365-groups). With time, an Office 365 Group/Teams may have lost its owner(s) as part of the work life cycle when peoples are leaving the organization. This introduces a governance issue as you may ended to […]

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Office 365 – A new global idle timeout settings is available (preview)

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As you may already know, administrators were able to set an idle timeout setting for SharePoint Online (see https://blog.hametbenoit.info/2017/11/10/sharepoint-online-configure-idle-session-timeout/) and Exchange Online (see https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/exchange/set-organizationconfig?view=exchange-ps#:~:text=Exchange%20Server%202019-,%2DActivityBasedAuthenticationTimeoutEnabled,-The%20ActivityBasedAuthenticationTimeoutEnabled%20parameter&WT.mc_id=M365-MVP-7836) for quite some time when users use the web browser to access the services. This 2 options are independent with each other and configured by either the SharePoint or Exchange administrators

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Security – You can now configure web content filtering to block access to specific web categories

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This was something missing in the security and device management offers from Microsoft since the move to cloud services; there was no integrated solution to manage web content filtering (you could still buy third party solutions). Well, good news you can now manage web content filtering directly from your Office 365 subscription. I think this

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

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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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Office 365 – You can now have multiple organization themes to apply to Office 365 groups

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As you know, Office 365 allows you to define an organization theme (custom color or logo) to brand your Office 365 services when accessed from the web browser. Well, until now you could only have 1 organization branding. You can now define additional branding themes to apply to your Office 365 groups. To do so,

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Office 365 – Administrators can now review and manage end-users feedbacks

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As you know, Microsoft products provided with Office 365 (Office 365 administration portals and mobile apps, Office clients [including mobile]…) have a feature to provide feedbacks from end-users. If you have configured the policy to allow end-users to provide feedbacks (see https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/admin/manage/manage-feedback-ms-org?view=o365-worldwide#configure-policies), Office 365 administrators can now review and manage these feedbacks. This applies only

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Office 365 – You can add your organization logo to the Safe Links notification page

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As you know, Office 365 provide quite a lot of security feature, one of them – called Safe Links – rewrite URL’s written in Office documents, emails or Teams message. Well, you can add your organization logo on notification and warning pages when suspicious links have been detected and clicked on. To do so, you

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Office 365 – Expiring domain notification is coming

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If you use Office 365 and have associated your public domain name (also known as custom domain in Office 365/Azure AD), a new coming feature is going to help you maintaining your associated domains. This feature, called Expiring Domain Insight, will notify you with an high-severity alert, sent to the tenant administrators, letting you know

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Office 365 – You can connect your Microsoft Rewards with your Azure AD

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You may already know Microsoft Rewards, a loyalty program from Microsoft letting you earn points while using Bing for your web search and participating in other activities like participating to daily challenges. Your reward points can then be converted to gift cards, XBox Live Gold membership or giving to charities. If you don’t know or

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Office 365 – Messages published in Message Center now have tags

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As you know, the Message Center is your one stop shop to be aware about what is coming up on Office 365 services. Until then, you only had the category (Stay Informed, Plan for Change, Prevent of Fix Issues…) to help you identify the type of incoming changes. Well, now messages published on Message Center

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