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Office 365 – You can simulate an attack on your Office 365 (preview)

UPDATE March 10, 2018 – I have been informed the invitation code to join the preview portal is no longer valid Even if we all know Office 365 is quite secure by design, you may want to evaluate by yourself the security level of your tenant. While you already have the Secure Score (https://securescore.office.com/) functionality […]

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Exchange Online – You can now manage calendar delegation with PowerShell

The MailboxFolderPermission cmdlet for Exchange Online is getting improved with the adding of a new parameter (SharingPermissionFlags) to let you manage calendar delegation. With this parameter, which only applies to Calendar folder when using the Editor access right, you can set the user as a delegate (as you do when using the Delegate Access from

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SharePoint Online – New SharePoint Online administration portal

A new SharePoint Online administration portal is being deployed; as usual available first for First Release tenants. A link (Try the new SharePoint admin center preview – pointing to https://<your tenant>-admin.sharepoint.com/_layouts/15/online/AdminHome.aspx) to the new SharePoint Online administration portal will be shown (when available) from the current SPO administration portal If you want to give a

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Azure/Office 365 – Azure AD is now getting Administrative Units capabilities

An update is currently being deployed (first for First release tenant) to provide Administrative Units (AU) capabilities to Azure AD. AU capabilities are basically the equivalent of the Organizational Unit on Active Directory. This is going to deliver better delegated administration experience, like delegating administration to specific set of users/groups instead of delegating full Azure

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Exchange Online – Get notified when users report Junk/Phishing emails

If you are using Exchange Online, you may already know the ‘Report message’ add-in to report junk or phishing emails But as an administrator, do you know where to get these reports, and do you know you can also get notified? I’m sure not, so here it is: Access Users Reported Message first, you can

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OneDrive for Business – Self service OdB recovery

It has been announced some time ago, and now this is starting to be rolled out. If you need to recover your OneDrive for Business space from a previous state, you will have the ability to do it your self by executing the following steps. NOTE this does not replace the recycle bin for deleted

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Teams – Flows is now integrated with Teams

You are now able to integrate Microsoft Flows in Microsoft Teams. To integrate Flow in Teams, open your Teams client and go to the Store Then search for Flow (if not highlighted first) Then you can install the Flow application in Teams From there you will be able to manage your Flows (personal and team)

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OneDrive for Business – ODfB client now synching RMS protected SharePoint libraries

The latest version of the OneDrive for Business client (17.3.7294.0108) now allows you to synchronize SharePoint Online RMS protected libraries. To take advantage of this new functionality, just ensure you are running at least the referenced version (17.3.7294.0108) of OneDrive for Business client. If not, just get it from https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/p/?linkid=844652 (only if you do not

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Exchange Online–Clearing for good previous mailbox information

This update will be very interesting for migration context to Exchange Online – may be other situation too but can’t see it right now. Microsoft is introducing a new parameter to the Set-User command to permanently remove previous Exchange Online details. Imagine the following scenario: User have Exchange On Premises mailbox You have Azure AD

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Exchange Online – Real preview of quarantine emails

As you may already know, you had the ability to have a preview of a quarantine email before deciding what to do. But this preview was basically raw data (plain view), meaning if the email was in HTML format you basically got the HTML code displayed, making it complicated to review it. An update has

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