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Office 365 – Event driven retention

While most of the data retention requirement is usually set on a time based (keep until xx after creation/update), there is still some retention requirements which are set based on activities or events, such as departed users, expired products or contracts…. Now, with the Office 365 Security and Compliance portal you can also define the […]

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Office 365 – Microsoft Whiteboard is going in GA soon

Few months ago, a new service appears on Office 365 called Microsoft Whiteboard, a digital whiteboard to help users collaborating and sharing ideas. The service is going to be generally available within the next few months – except for government or in Germany. The corresponding Windows 10 application will be available for download from the

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Office 365 – Microsoft Training Services starting in preview late July

Microsoft is introducing a new service for Office 365 customers called Microsoft Training Services. The objective is to help customers embrace Office 365 and Windows 10 without having to heavily invest in training content which can be out of date very quickly while providing customized and up to date content, relevant for their business. If

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Azure – New version of Azure AD Connect with quite new capabilities

A new version (1.1.819.0) of Azure AD Connect (the directory synchronization tool for Office 365 / Azure AD) has been released. You can get it from http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=615771 This new version includes new capabilities like: Integration with PingFederate (in preview), allowing you to use Azure AD Connect to configure PingFederate for federation with Office 365/Azure AD

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SharePoint Online – New version of the SharePoint Migration Tool available

After releasing a first version of his own SharePoint migration tool, Microsoft has updated it and has released the v2 of the SharePoint Migration Tool (available at https://aka.ms/SPMT This new version includes support for more SharePoint lists like: GenericList DocumentLibrary Survey Links Announcements Contacts Events Tasks DiscussionBoard PictureLibrary XMLForm GanttTasks Posts Comments Categories MySiteDocumentLibrary IssueTracking

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Exchange Online – A better mail flow dashboard is coming out

Microsoft is deploying a better dashboard to have insight in mail flows. This dashboard will be available worldwide by the end of May from the Security and Compliance center (https://protection.office.com). Thanks to this dashboard you will have some insights for your mail flow, like: how many emails are stuck in queue (on Office 365) for

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Exchange Online – New Message Trace available in the Security and Compliance Portal

An updated Message Trace is now available from the Security and Compliance Portal on Office 365. The Message Trace on Exchange Online is very well known tool to help troubleshooting mail flow issues but had few glitches. With this new Message Trace, you will be able to create custom queries and save them, have a

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Security – The new Azure Information Protection (AIP) client is available

The new Azure Information Protection (AIP) client is now available in version 1.26.6 You can download it from https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=53018 As part of the usual bug fixes, some new features are also available. The first one the integration of the AIP scanner (see https://t.co/RIvT261b7O); this means you do not need to download anymore the specific installation

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Skype for Business – The mobile application for SfB on Windows Phone/Mobile is going to be retired

If we needed another proof that Windows Mobile/Phone is dead, here it is The mobile app for Skype for Business on Windows Mobile/Phone is going to be retired by May 20, 2018. Any Windows Phone with the application installed will continue to be able to use it but no more updates will be delivered and

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Office – Outlook (Click to Run) has a new option to show reminder on top of all other windows

A new option is being deployed for Office Click to Run installation for Outlook. This option is going to set the Reminder pop up on top of all other windows. To get it,you need to use Office Click to Run and have the version/build 1805 / 9307.2004 (or later). And in case you are not

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