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Office 365 – You can now control Edge configuration from O365 administration portal

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As you know you can control Microsoft Edge configuration either using group policies (for Active Directory joined devices) or Intune (for both AD or Azure AD Joined devices). Well, a new option is now available to manage Edge configuration: the Office 365 administration portal. This new capability is currently being deployed for targeted tenant, while …

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Office 365 – You can now enable Optical Character Recognition (OCR) in Pureview (preview)

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As you know, Office 365 comes with capabilities to help you protect your data and ensure compliance – namely Pureview Information Protection and Pureview Data Loss Prevention (DLP). Well, good news as you can now enable Optical Character Recognition (OCR) for both features (in preview). After turning it on, compliance policies like DLP and auto-labeling …

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Forms – You can now easily present results

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As you know, with Office 365 you have access to Microsoft Forms for creating surveys and gather answers. Until now, the answers were only accessible from the corresponding Forms responses page or by exporting through Excel. It was not easy to present the results as the responses page includes additional details (such as time to …

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Office 365 – New unified domain for Office 365 services

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As you know, each Office 365 services have its own domain, like .sharepoint.com, yammer.com or powerbi.com. This fragmentation can cause some challenges for end-users and administrators. Microsoft is now introducing a new unified domain for all Office 365 services: .cloud.microsoft This unification under the .cloud.microsoft umbrella will simplify user experience by reducing sign-in prompts or …

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Office – You can now apply Office policies to everyone using Cloud Policy Service

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By now you probably know Cloud Policy Service which allows you to apply policies to your Office applications (https://config.office.com/). Until now, policies would have been applied to specific group(s) of users. Well, good news as now you can apply a policy to all users in your tenant. You can only apply 1 policy with a …

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Office 365 – Bring your own domain for email notifications

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As you know Office 365 products and services – such as SharePoint, Exchange Online… – send from time to time email notifications to end-users, such as for document shared, emails in quarantine… These email notifications have been using Microsoft domains as sender – such as @sharepointonline.com or @planner.com. Sometimes these emails were incorrectly identified as …

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Office 365 – You can now export your Office policy configurations

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If you use Office 365, you are probably aware of the Cloud Policy Service for Office (aka Office App Configuration) portal (https://config.office.com/) you use to create your custom Office installation XML file and Office configuration (similar to the GPO). Well, you can now export your policy configuration in CSV to help you identify and review …

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Forms – Quite a few improvements now available

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Microsoft Forms, the Office 365 survey/quiz capability, just got few improvements. Create Forms using templates You can now create new forms based on ‘professional’ template matching usual business cases (satisfaction survey, volunteer registration, product evaluation or well-being pulse among 20 different template categories). The templates are available straight from the Forms home page (https://forms.office.com/) Create …

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Office – You can now share your Word document in review mode

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If you are using SharePoint Online and/or OneDrive, you already know you can share your Office documents in read or edit mode. Well, good news you can now also share your Word document in review  mode. Sharing in review mode allows Word document sharing with limited edit capability while enabling change tracking automatically. This new …

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Yammer – A new Azure AD administration role for Yammer is available

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  This is probably the last Office 365 workload which did not had an Azure AD administration role available to delegate his administration.   Yammer is now getting an Azure AD administration role – Yammer Administrator.   When you grant users (or groups as you can also now use Azure AD groups to grant administration …

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