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Teams – Audio Conferencing available in preview in Microsoft Teams

Microsoft Teams is evolving again by adding Audio Conferencing capabilities. Users licensed for Audio Conferencing (formerly called PSTN Conferencing) will automatically have the dial in feature available in their Teams. You can learn more about it here https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/MicrosoftTeams/audio-conferencing

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Exchange Online – FindTime is getting easier to use with Outlook on the Web

You may know an add-in has – called FindTime – been developed for some time already to help organizing meetings by settings a pool to get availability from participants (especially external ones). Now FindTime is getting easier to use with Outlook on the Web (or OWA) by getting available directly (without using the add-in) when

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Microsoft Teams – New audit logging

As Microsoft Teams is growing up, Microsoft is adding new functionalities or features. This time this is about audit logging to be updated. With the update currently being deployed, administrators will have the ability to audit additional Teams events in the compliance portal. This covers: Adding/Removing a bot Adding/Removing a tab Adding/Removing a connector Adding/Removing

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Exchange Online – Shared Calendar is coming on mobile devices

This has been long waited request: getting shared calendars available on mobile device. An update is currently being rolled out to Exchange Online which will make available on mobile shared calendar. Even better, the update is coming to support all type of permissions (read, edit or delegate). All new shared calendar invitation sent and accepted

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Microsoft Teams – Guest access is now available

Microsoft Teams has been updated to allow guest access with external users. The guest access is working for anyone which has an Azure AD account (any other Azure AD or Office 365 tenants), no Microsoft account. The Guest access for Teams is not enabled by default.   Managing Guest access As usual Office 365 administrators

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Azure AD Connect – You can now re use existing AAD Connect database

A new version of Azure AD Connect has been released with an interesting new feature: you can now re use existing AAD Connect database. As you may know, the previous version did not allow you to re use existing database when deploying a new instance. With the new version (1.1.614.0) you can now re use

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SharePoint Online – Setting default permissions when sharing

An update is currently on his way (deployment starting September 2017 to be completed by end of October) which will allow Office 365 administrators to setup a default permission when end-users are sharing SharePoint Online/OneDrive for Business content. There has been already an updated to define the default sharing link type (direct, internal, anonymous), this

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Exchange Online – You may see a question mark in place of the photo

As explained in a blog post on MSDN, if you use Exchange Online (or Outlook.com) you may start seeing a question mark (?) in place of the photo/initial on received emails. Do not worry, this is an additional information level provided to end-user to protect themselves against spam or phishing. Microsoft is adding this additional

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Exchange Online – You can delete mails from the quarantine

As Exchange Online administrator, you should review from time to time what is being put in the Exchange Online Protection quarantine. Now, in addition of the usual Release and Release & Report to release inappropriately quarantined message, you can Delete it. If you use the Ctrl or Shift key you can delete multiple quarantined email

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Exchange Online – Reminder: RPC over HTTPS is being deprecated

It has been announced some time ago already but a reminder is worth it as the date is approaching. RPC over HTTP connectivity to Exchange Online is being deprecated and replaced by MAPI over HTTP on October 31, 2017. If you are using an old version of Office/Outlook (2007, 2010 or 2013) you need to

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