O365

Office 365 – Important Outlook connectivity update

As you know, connecting to Office 365 service using Office client and in this case Outlook requires to use specific version. As part of it, Outlook client older than the below version will not be able to connect to Office 365 services after November 1st, 2021 Outlook 2013 15.0.4970.9999 and older Outlook 2016 16.0.4599.9999 and […]

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Office 365 – Manage your Office 365 Apps directly from the portal

You already know that you have been able to buy, deploy and manage add-ins from the Office 365 administration portal.Well, this has been expanded to allow you to buy, deploy and manage Office 365 Partners apps too. To use this new capability, logon to your Office 365 administration portal (https://admin.microsoft.com/) and access the Settings\Integrated apps

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Outlook–Your signature is being roamed and saved in your mailbox

This has been a very awaited feature: getting your Outlook signature roaming across your devices. In fact it has been waited since the first release of Exchange server. Well, good news, this is now becoming available. The below screenshot shows you the previous interface to manage your signature Now, once you got the appropriate version

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Office 365 – You can now use the Compliance Configuration Analyzer (preview)

As you know, Office 365 comes with compliance capabilities (from retention policies to investigation). Well, you can now use Office 365 Compliance Configuration Analyzer to generate a report which is going to help you to understand your compliance usage and provides recommendations to improve your use of Office 365 compliance capabilities. This is a PowerShell

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Office 365 – You can now filter messages from the Message Center using tags

As you know, the Message Center is your one stop shop for knowing what is coming for Office 365 services. While you have been able to already filter messages from Message Center based on services (Preferences) or by category (changes, prevent issues…), today you are being able to also filter based on tags (admin impact,

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Office 365 – You can now launch simulated attacks targeting your end-users

As working remotely is more predominant, ensuring your end-users are working securely is more important than ever. Few months ago, Microsoft has partnered with Terranova Security to provide end-users training kits for Office 365 customers (see https://t.co/whbjd68YIF). Well, this partnership is now delivering attack simulation scenarios to help maintain/improve your end-uses awareness. This is similar

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Office 365 – You can now hide/show services on the Service Health Dashboard

As every Office 365 administrators know, the Service Health Dashboard is your one stop shop to monitor if Office 365 services are operating. Well, until now, the Service Health was reporting all Office 365 services and you could not hide some because either you are not using them or you are not responsible of supporting/maintaining

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Office 365 – Get ready for end of support for Internet Explorer and Edge legacy

If you are still using Internet Explorer 11 or Edge Legacy (aka the first version of Edge) to access Office 365 services – like Outlook Web Access, Administration portals, Teams web  or SharePoint Online – you will need to prepare to the end of support of these browser. Starting November 30, 2020 the Teams web

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OneDrive for Business – You can now manage user storage limits from the administration portal

As you know Office 365 provides a personal storage space with OneDrive for Business. You also now you can define the storage limit (quota) applicable to all users. Good news, you can now define individual limit for OneDrive for Business directly from the Office 365 administration portal; meaning if you need to decrease/increase limit for

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Office 365 – Manage modern authentication for Exchange Online from the administration portal

As you know Microsoft has been recommending to turn off basic authentication protocols for some time now. Well, until now you had to manage this by implementing an Azure AD Conditional Access policy or by implementing an authentication policies for Exchange Online. Well, you can now manage basic authentication access for Exchange Online directly from

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