The Office 365 Administration got a small update to provide a simpler Setup blade. Instead of showing up as a main section with 3 administration sub blades (see below), the new Setup menu is now a single configuration blade showing up all setup tasks and their status which then allows you to navigate through the
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As you already know, the Roles page on Office 365 administration portal (https://admin.microsoft.com/) allows you to manage Office 365 roles assigned to your users. Well, you can now define your favorites administration roles (aka the one you use/manage the most) to filter the available roles to only those ones. To set an administration role as
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For those who still use OneNote 2016 and still do not have moved to the OneNote Windows 10 app (I am one of them ) – probably because there is still to much gap between OneNote 2016 and OneNote app, here is a good news. Despite what was announced in 2018, Microsoft is reversing and
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You may be already aware of Cloud Shell, a feature introduced with Azure allowing you to run PowerShell commands directly from the web browser (https://shell.azure.com/), which then has been extended to allow you to also connect to Exchange Online. Well, now it is the turn of Office 365 as Cloud Shell just makes his appearance
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As just announced at the Microsoft Ignite 2019 Conference, Azure Multi Factor Authentication (Azure MFA) will now be enabled by default for all new Azure AD (and Office 365 or Dynamics as they rely on Azure AD) tenant and will be also free for existing customers with the Microsoft Authenticator app (available on Android https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.azure.authenticator
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When you are moving to cloud services (in this case Office 365 and/or Azure Active Directory/Azure), it is important that the authentication process is working seamlessly when you are moving away from federated authentication services (AD FS, Okta…) to cloud authentication. This means you need to be able to test and validate the process. Until
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As you are aware, properly configured inbound connectors to Exchange Online is very important to ensure proper and secure mail flow (including capability to fight against spam and phishing emails). While the trusted source is usually identified as the IP address(es), in complex scenario – such as third party hygiene solution, Exchange Hybrid implementation or
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This was a missing role since the beginning of Office 365 and Exchange Online to allow the delegation of the administration of the quarantine. Before you had to create your very own Exchange Role with the correct permissions – Mail Recipient, Message Tracking, Transport Hygiene and View-Only Configuration (which was not easy to find as
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As you already know, Office 365 provides a service dashboard helping you to be aware of any service issue. That said, this service dashboard may be unavailable when the issue is affecting the authentication process (either authentication itself or MFA services). Well, you can now have email notification when some services are degraded or are
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As you may know, the Microsoft Teams client is self-updating itself on a regular basis (documented as every 2 weeks). That being said, it may be possible (and obviously it seems to be the case) that the Teams client is not being updated for a long period of time. To ensure end-users are always running
