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Teams – Retention Policies is now available for Teams

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Microsoft is rolling out an update to make retention policies available for Microsoft Teams. Completion is scheduled for mid-April. Please note there is no default retention policy applied to Teams. To create (and apply) a retention policy for Teams, go to the Security and Compliance center (https://protection.office.com) and reach the Data governance\Retention blade Then create […]

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Exchange Online – Meeting with more than 500 attendees can now be updated/cancelled

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As you should be aware, Exchange Online has a 500 recipients limit per message (see https://technet.microsoft.com/en-au/library/exchange-online-limits.aspx#Receiving%20and%20sending%20limits). When sending request meeting to a distribution list, the DL count as 1 recipient but may contains more than 500 members. If each member respond to this request meeting, they are added automatically as 1 attendee, which ultimately may

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SharePoint Online – The Newsfeed is going away

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​As you know, SharePoint Online came with an initial enterprise social feature called Newsfeed. This is (used to be) the default social feature on SharePoint Online but you were able to switch to Yammer. In June 2018, the Newsfeed will be set to read only for existing tenant and will be removed for new tenant.

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Office 365 – New (and better way?) to manage Office 365 services IP addresses updates

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Microsoft has just released a preview of a web service to help (and improve?) customer experiences with managing Office 365 Services IP address upgrades. You already well know the recommendations/requirements/best practices in term of accessing Office 365 Services as well as the public website listing (and providing RSS feed and XML/PAC files) here http://aka.ms/o365ip. Now,

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Teams – MSI packages are now available to deploy Teams

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Since Microsoft has released Microsoft Teams, there has been a need for MSI package to deploy it in enterprise environment using software deployment solution (such as SCCM). Until then, there has been lot of workarounds available on the internet to manage such corporate deployment needs. Now, Microsoft has released MSI packages (both 32 and 64

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Office – An alert is displayed when BCC recipients reply to all

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The Outlook version coming with the Office Click To Run is now showing a notification when a blind carbon copy (Bcc) recipient is reply to all. The notification alerts the user he receive the mail he is replying to as a blind copy and so if he replies to all, all other recipients will know

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OneDrive for Business – Shared by me view

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A new view is being deployed on OneDrive for Business to help you identify all content you have shared. This new view is simply called Shared by me (as you would imagine ) To access this view, logon to your OneDrive for Business space using a web browser and reach the Shared view On top

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Office 365 – IMPORTANT NOTICE – Office documents will now open in Edit mode in the browser

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This is going to be a potential issue. An update is being deployed (already done for First release tenant) which is going to open Office document in Edit mode when you use the web browser (the Office Online license). You need to communicate to your end-users to be careful when opening an Office document with

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Office 365 – Naming convention for Office 365 Groups is available in preview

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We already had a group naming policy available for Exchange security mail-enabled or distribution groups BUT this did not apply to Office 365 Group name. Starting today, and in preview, a group naming policy is available for Office 365 Groups; this will apply to Office 365 Groups AND Teams NOTE this functionality requires to have

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