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Azure AD / Office 365 – 3 new administration roles available

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In the way to limit the need and use of the global administrator role, 3 new administration roles have been made available: Groups administrator to delegate groups (Azure AD security groups, Office 365 Groups, Teams or Yammer) management, covering naming convention, expiration policy or even AAD security group restoration Office apps administrator allows you delegating […]

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Exchange Online – Outlook on the Web (aka OWA) is now providing a room card

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As you know Outlook on the Web (aka Outlook Web Access) is getting frequent improvements. The latest one is the rooms are now getting a card providing all relevant details, including a map. This card is only available when using Outlook Web Access. Off course this requires you have set all the relevant room details.

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Office 365 – A new administration role is available to delegate administration of Kaizala

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You may know Kaizala has been the youngest and latest service added to Office 365, providing phone-based collaboration capabilities. Until then, to manage Kaizala you had to be an Office 365 Global Administrator; well, not anymore, a new administration role is now available to delegate administration of Kaizala without granting global administration: Kaizala admin

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Office 365 – Apply client policy to your Office installation from Office 365

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You may not be aware but you can create user policies for Office 365 Pro Plus and apply them from your Office 365 tenant using Office Client Policy Service (OCPS). Policies created with OCPS are user settings only (for now, machine settings will come some time next year) and are roaming with the user account,

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Office 365 – A new attack simulator scenario is now available

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As you may already know, about a year ago, Microsoft has introduced a security tool to Office 365 called Attack Simulator to help administrator and security teams to simulate attacks to their Office 365 tenant to find vulnerable accounts before a real attack occurs. Well, the Office 365 Attack Simulator has been updated to include

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Teams – Linux users can use Teams

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As announced sometime ago (see https://t.co/M8hBbz50n4), the Teams client for Linux operating system is now available at https://aka.ms/get-teams-linux The Teams client is the first Office 365/Microsoft 365 application coming to Linux OS. With this release, all operating systems (Windows, MacOS, Android, iOS and now Linux) have a Teams client available.

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Forms – You can now use a file upload field

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As you may know, Microsoft Forms is one the lightweight form capability available on Office 365. A new question type has just been added to Microsoft Forms (roll out is expected to be completed by end of December 2019): file upload With this new field type, you can let respondents to upload file when answering

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Office 365 – You can now use templates when creating new users

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This has been a long awaited features which is now available in Office 365: the ability to use templates when creating new user accounts. When using this feature you will be able to create new user account based setting from existing accounts. This applies only for user accounts you are creating from the Office 365

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Exchange Online – You can now get a recommended configuration for Advanced Threat Protection

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As you may already know, Office 365 Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) helps protecting Exchange Online against any security threats. That said, configuring a correct ATP protection for Exchange Online can be a little bit challenging. To help you in this process, Microsoft has released a new PowerShell module to generate an Office 365 Recommended Configuration

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Office 365 – New simplified Setup blade

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The Office 365 Administration got a small update to provide a simpler Setup blade. Instead of showing up as a main section with 3 administration sub blades (see below), the new Setup menu is now a single configuration blade showing up all setup tasks and their status which then allows you to navigate through the

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