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Office 365 – You can now use MFA to connect with PowerShell to Security and Compliance Center

If you use PowerShell to connect to Office 365 services, and also have MFA enabled, you already know there is always some issue to connect with PowerShell to some of the Office 365 services. While Microsoft is improving the situation, you can now have MFA enabled and connect to the Security and Compliance Center with […]

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Exchange Online – Incoming changes in Exchange Online Protection to better protect against phishing

An update, starting rolling out on November 9th, may affect you. This update is changing the way Exchange Online Protection is validating the FROM address. Currently EOP accepts invalid FROM address, undergoing through the spam filtering which then may or may not deliver or mark them as spam. After the update all emails with invalid

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Skype for Business – Modern Auth is now available in preview

As announced during the last Ignite Conference, Modern Authentication is now available in preview for Skype for Business, allowing MFA, Certificate Based Authentication, Conditional Access and Mobile Application Management for Skype for Business users wherever they are homed, on-premises or online. To join the public preview register at http://aka.ms/skypepreview

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SharePoint Online – SharePoint Migration Tool

As announced at the Ignite 2017 Conference, a ‘self’ migration tool is currently in preview to help you migrate files from on-premises environments (SharePoint or file shares) to SharePoint Online. As usual, the migration is just the end state; you still need to assess, plan and prepare to ensure your environment is ready for the

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Exchange Online – Enable Azure Information Protection on OWA

You may have already configured Azure RMS (Rights Management Service) integration with Outlook Web Access (or so called today Outlook on the Web). You can now also enable the same integration with Azure Information Protection; even if you do not have yet enabled Azure RMS integration. To do so you must: have an Office 365

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Office 365 – New voicemail user settings portal

A new voice mail user settings portal is available (not yet integrated through App Launcher or any voice mail settings). Go to https://mysettings.lync.com/ and enjoy a new clear voice mail settings portal From there you can enable/disable voice mail and configure language or Out of Office greetings

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Office 365 – Legacy OneDrive for Business client is being retired

Following the announcement during the last Ignite Conference, the legacy OneDrive for Business client is going to be retired. This means starting October for the monthly channel customer and up to April 2018 for the semi annual channel customers, the legacy OneDrive for Business client (so called groove.exe) will not be installed anymore with the

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SharePoint Online – OneDrive Announcements from Ignite

The following has been announced at the Ignite Conference for OneDrive: Coming on October 17th, Files On Demand. This feature was already announced as part of some Windows 10 Preview build. We now have an official date of delivery Silent Synch Auto Account Configuration, using Azure ADAL (Azure Active Directory Authentication Library), will support automatic

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Compliance – Microsoft has announced a compliance center

With all the cloud services and regulation/compliance requirements, it may difficult to ensure you are indeed matching yours. To help you with that, Microsoft already did a good job by providing documentations and guideline but now it going to go one step further. Microsoft has announced a Compliance Center covering the full Microsoft cloud services,

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Office 365 – New administration features coming up

It has been announced at the Ignite conference, the Office 365 administration experience is evolving. You are going to get: more focused experience as every administrators may not need to have the same information level on a regular basis (user administrators may not need to have the health information while a service administrators may not

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