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Azure AD Connect – More flexibility with synched duplicate attributes

UPDATED 30/03/2017 – Adding notification email notifying the activation of the feature Starting April 19th, a new feature will be available to eliminate frictions caused by duplicate synched attributes.   This feature called Duplicate Attribute Resiliency will authorize objects synchronization and provisioning on Office 365 even if there is a duplicate UPN or ProxyAddresses.   […]

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Office 365 Groups – Automatic Office 365 Groups creation based on manager

Starting April 13th, direct reports Office 365 Groups will be automatically created for managers. If managers do not have permission or if you have turned off the ability to create Office 365 Groups, these direct reports groups will not be created. If you want to disable this auto provisioning, you need to turn off the

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SharePoint Online – Postpone the public website deletion

If you are an early customer of Office 365, you probably are using the public website. As you are (or should be) aware, public website are no longer offered with Office 365 and existing public sites are going to be deleted. That said you can postpone this deletion until March 31, 2018 – giving you

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Azure / Office 365 – Group based licensing is now available in preview

This has been a long waited and requested feature: being able to automatically assigned licenses to user based on their group membership. Good news, this is now available in preview To try the preview you will need to have an Azure EMS trial but when it will become generally available it will be included with

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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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SharePoint Online – Copy files from a site to another

After rolling out the Copy/Move button on OneDrive for Business,the feature is now getting available also on SharePoint Online sites (if using the Modern UI). You can select multiple files or folders from a SPO site and copy/move the content to another SPO sites  

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SharePoint Online – Download multiple files at once is finally here

Following the announcement of an incoming update for SharePoint Online and OneDrive for Business to allow multiple files download at once, I’m happy to announce this is finally here. As usual,First Release tenants are getting it first Nothing to do on your side – except may be some end users communication. Then you just need

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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 – Microsoft Teams is now user based licensed

When Microsoft has introduced Microsoft Team, this was only manageable at the organization level. Now, Microsoft Teams is now user based licensed; meaning you can now enabled/disable it on a per user basis   And if use a PowerShell script to automate (or bulk update) licensing options, the service plan is TEAMS1

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