As you may know, before installing Office 365 Pro Plus it is recommended to uninstall previous MSI Office install. While it was already possible to perform this uninstall either manually when running the Office 365 Pro Plus setup or using an XML configuration file, it was not so easy. An updated version of the Office […]
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An update is going to be rolled out (and disabled by default) for Office 365 Message Encryption. With this update administrators will be able to allow/deny the opening of an attachment outside of an Office 365 service (like Gmail or Outlook) were not able to open attachments send using Office 365 Message Encryption. As of
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If you are using Office 2016 or Office 365 you may be impacted when using PowerPoint, Excel or Word. For security reasons new builds of Microsoft Office for Office 365 block activation of Flash, Silverlight, and Shockwave controls. Most users won’t be impacted, but for some users this may cause one of the following issues:
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You can request, through a support request (see below for details), to get your Office 365 tenant enabled for eDiscovery for Teams when you are in Exchange Hybrid configuration. eDiscovery for Teams has been already deployed some time ago across Office 365 tenant; this update will cover the scenario when a user is still hosted
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As you may already know, Exchange (both on-prem 2016 and online) supports the use of OneDrive for Business for file storage (including attaching files from OneDrive for Business). An update is going to be deployed (as usual Targeted tenant first with a completion scheduled for end of September) to allow use of third party storage.
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For those who are using Office 365 (E1, E3, E5 and Advanced ATP), a interesting update is coming on Office 365 Security & Compliance center: alert policies As a first stage deployment, these new default alerts will let you when: an elevation of privileges has been done on Exchange Online emails are being delayed for
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Since Office 365 has been released few years back, the administration portal has been homed within the main Office 365 portal (https://portal.office.com). Within the next few weeks (expected completion is scheduled for end of July, while already available for targeted tenant) the Office 365 Administration Portal is going to have a new home/URL: https://admin.microsoft.com This
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An update is going to be deployed within the next few weeks (scheduled to be completed by mid-June) to enable a new security role on Office 365: the Message Center Reader role. This new role will grant permission to access the Message Center without granting wider permissions (like GA or service admin). In addition, they
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An important change is coming (on July 1st) for Azure Information Protection which may affect users on Office 365 (more specifically the Exchange Online Message Encryption capabilities) If you are using AD RMS (the on-premises digital rights management solution) to protect your data (including for users on Office 365) you must opt out for this
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If you are using Office 365 E5 plan (or if you have the Advanced Threats Protection) you can take advantage of a new capability to help you protect your data on Office 365 called Advanced Threats Tracker This functionality is an advanced dashboard showing you all threats against your organization to help you assess the
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