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Azure / Office 365 – The new Azure AD Connect is here

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As announced about a month ago (see https://t.co/OSCGCkdwMl), the new Azure Active Directory Connect (AAD Connect), the directory synchronization tool, is finally here. You can get it from https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=615771 The complete list of new feature and bug fixes as below: New features and improvements Add support for Domain Refresh Exchange Mail Public Folders feature goes

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SharePoint / Teams – Self-Recovery feature on SharePoint and Teams

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After providing ability to restore OneDrive for Business files (we are not talking about the recycle bin here), Microsoft is now providing the same feature for SharePoint Online library and Microsoft Teams. This feature will be relevant in situation like when you suspect your files have been corrupted and/or infected by malware (let say like

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Teams – The Teams PowerShell module is now generally available

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After being in preview for about a year, the PowerShell module for Microsoft Teams is now generally available. If you used the preview module, some PowerShell cmdlets did not make it to GA: Get-TeamFunSettings Set-TeamFunSettings Get-TeamGuestSettings Set-TeamGuestSettings Get-TeamMemberSettings Set-TeamMemberSettings Get-TeamMessagingSettings Set-TeamMessagingSettings These have been consolidated into the Get-Team / Set-Team commands The various cmdlets available

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Exchange Online – Reminder Clutter is going to go away on Jan 31st 2020

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This is a reminder to brink back to your attention that Clutter (the email sorting/classification tool introduced in Exchange Online back in 2017) is going to be turned off for good in January 31st 2020. If you (or your end-users) have been using it, it will then be fully replaced by the Focused Inbox feature.

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Skype for Business Online – 3DES support is going to be retired

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A simple reminder that the 3DES cipher support for Skype for Business Online (SfBO) is going to be retired starting July 10th. If you are still using client using 3DES cipher (hopefully not) to connect to Skype for Business Online – like Lync 2010, Lync Phone Edition or Lync Mac 2011 – you will not

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SharePoint Online – The new experience administration portal is becoming the default admin portal for SharePoint Online

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As you may be aware a new SharePoint Online (SPO) administration portal has been on preview for quite some time now. This new administration portal experience for SPO is now going to become the default administration portal for SharePoint Online. You will still have the ability (for some time??) to switch back to the previous

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Office 365 / Azure AD – New administration roles available

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As Office 365 and Azure AD are evolving, the need for more granular administration role is more and more important. 2 new administration roles have been introduced to reduce the need for more elevated privileges: Information Protection Administrator: to grant all Azure Information Protection (AIP) administration aspects without granting global administrator permission. This covers Azure

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Office 365 – A new service is coming in Office 365: Kaizala

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You may already have heard about Kaizala (https://products.office.com/en/business/microsoft-kaizala), a simple chat solution for work – allowing communication between people inside and outside of your organization directory using mobile phone and phone number-based identity. This has been first released to selected marker (mainly India). Now, it is becoming an integrated member of the Office 365 family

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Azure AD Connect – A new version is coming

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A new version (1.3.90.0) of the directory synchronization (Azure AD Connect) tool for Office 365 / Azure AD is going to be release soon (https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=615771) This new version of Azure AD Connect is not only resolving few issues (SQL reconnect logic for ADSync service, issue where installation of Azure AD PowerShell on a server could

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Exchange Online – You can now unblock restricted users

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As you may know, with Exchange Online you can (and should have) set a policy an outbound spam policy to block users for sending email if they have been compromised. This has now been moved to the Security & Compliance Center (SCC) in the Alert section In addition of this move, administrators have now the

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