For quite some time, Windows always came with what is called “companion apps” (Calendar, People…) which were also automatically pinned to the taskbar (unless device is being managed). Well, these companion apps are being retired in December 16th, 2026. This means they no longer be updated and will also stop functioning. While most devices in
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For the past few months, I have seen multiple group based license assignments failing on different tenants. While there is no official communication (Message Center or other communication channels), the only option has been to open a support request to Microsoft to initiate a “back-end” sync. Once this sync has been proceed, the group based
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IT Administrators can restrict new file creation in Word, Excel, and PowerPoint on Windows to Cloud Locations only, enhancing security and compliance. This policy, deployable via Group Policy or Cloud Policy Service, limits saving new files to OneDrive, SharePoint, or third-party Clouds, promoting cloud usage and protection. It is important to properly identify the use
An important change is coming for Chromium-based browsers (Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge) which will impact offline access to Office 365 services using web browser. You need to act before end of September (before Chromium 141 is being rolled out). The change introduced with Chromium 141 is related to privacy settings which will increase restrictions
Copilot has been a big trend for the past few months in Microsoft world. As an M365 service, Copilot can be used across signed in accounts in clients that allow you to sign in with multiple accounts. While you can use Copilot accross different accounts, the Copilot data protection is still applied which restrict data
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As you know, Microsoft has been working on developing a new modern Outlook client matching the UI from Outlook Web Access and aimed to provide the same features and functionalities. While this new Outlook client has been generally available for some time with option for customers to control whether to use the classic or the
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As announced in 2023, Office 365 services are moving under the cloud.microsoft umbrella domain (Office 365 – New unified domain for Office 365 services (hametbenoit.info)). Since then, quite few services have been already moved under the cloud.microsoft domain (Office 365 – Transitioning to cloud.microsoft domain (hametbenoit.info), Office 365 – Continuous move to cloud.microsoft domain; new
As announced in April 2023, Microsoft has been implementing a global umbrella domain (cloud.microsoft) for Office 365 services (Office 365 – New unified domain for Office 365 services (hametbenoit.info)). After moving some services (Office 365 – Transitioning to cloud.microsoft domain (hametbenoit.info) and Office 365 – Continuous move to cloud.microsoft domain; new services moved (hametbenoit.info)), new
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As you are probably aware now, Microsoft has been working on consolidating and moving all its Office 365 cloud services under the same domain umbrella cloud.microsoft (as announced in April 2023, see Office 365 – New unified domain for Office 365 services (hametbenoit.info)). There has been already few services moved under this umbrella – such
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Few months ago (in April 2023), Microsoft has announced that all Office 365 related services will use a unified cloud.microsoft domain (see https://blog.hametbenoit.info/2023/11/16/azure-virtual-desktop-a-new-application-preview/). Well, these services have started to be transitioned to this new unified domain: Microsoft Service Health Status is now https://status.cloud.microsoft/ M365/Office 365 Setup is now https://setup.cloud.microsoft/ M365/Office 365 Administration Center
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