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Azure / Office 365 – New version of Azure AD Connect now available

A new version of AAD Connect – Azure Active Directory Connect – is now available. This new version introduces new features such as: Automatic update – currently only for previous installation using Express Settings Support for MFA for administrator account during the installation Change of the sign in method for end-user after installation – to […]

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Office 365 / Skype for Business – PSTN Conferencing is being launched in 18 new countries

Following a first launch of this Skype for Business PSTN Conferencing some months ago, 18 new countries – Austria, Brazil, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, Greece, Hong Kong, Ireland, Japan, Luxembourg, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, and South Korea – will get the capabilities of using the cloud service to host conferencing with dial-in

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Office 365 – You can now assigned a storage quota to Office 365 Groups

As you may know, Office 365 Groups have been introduced some time ago already. We can view this feature as the replacement of the Mailbox site. That said, when you create an Office 365 Group it creates a distribution list and a SharePoint site to store the files associated with. As this site is a

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Outlook – Install and use the junk mails reporting tool

Microsoft has updated his junk mail reporting add in for Outlook. This new version is now compatible with Outlook 2016. When you report a message, the report is being sent to Microsoft for further analysis. You can download the add-in here https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=18275 Then just select the version you want to install Close Outlook and follow

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Office 365 / Sway – Sway now have a recycle bin

Since the introduction of Sway and the integration with Office 365, Sway is frequently evolving. This time, one of the most important thing when you work with content has been delivered: a recycle bin. Starting now, you are now able to recover deleted Sway during the 30 days retention period since the deletion – as

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Office 365 / Yammer – You can now manage the Yammer license

Since the integration of Yammer with Office 365, the Yammer license was always automatically enabled and there was no way to disable this license. While the integration of Yammer with Office 365 is going forward (see http://blog.hametbenoit.info/2015/11/25/yammer-enforce-office-365-identity-in-yammer-and-yammer-dirsync-stops-working/ regarding the change for identity management), the ability to manage the license for Yammer is now available  

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Office 365 / Sway – Administrators can now manage third party add-on to be used with Sway

Office 365 administrators are now able to manage which add-on are allowed for use with Sway To enable/disable these add-on, connect to the Office 365 administration portal (https://portal.office.com/Admin/) and go to the Service Settings\Sway section  

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Office 365 / SharePoint Online – Shared with everyone folder will no longer be created automatically

Since August 1st, all NEW OneDrive for Business site (so called MySite) will be provisioned without the Shared with everyone folder. It seems it took longer than expected as my tenant was not updated to support this new configuration. Now it is done, here is how you can request to continue to get the Shared

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Office 365 / SharePoint Online – Updated FROM email address for mail sent by SharePoint Online

Starting now (and scheduled to be completed by the end of January), Microsoft is updating the FROM address for email sent by SharePoint Online. The new email address will be no-reply@sharepointonline.com. This change is to address issues with such emails which could frequently being marked as spam and so either received in the Junk folder

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