Office 365

Azure – Group Based Licensing bug

As you may already know you can use security groups to automatically assign licenses to users member of the groups. Keeping in mind this feature is still in preview (so basically beta), there could be some glitch and here is one… So you setup a universal security group synced to Azure AD and then use

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Office 365 – Booking is now available to E plans

UPDATE 23 Nov 2017 – Get the Business Apps (free) to manage user licenses for Booking Booking is an Office 365 initially available to Small Business plan to help managing bookings with external people. Booking is now available also for E plan. NOTE at this stage, Office 365 Administrators just to need to enable the

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Teams – Planner and Who integrated to Teams

Planner (the Office 365 solution to help you manage project plan and tasks) and Who (a Teams app to help you search people within your organization) have been integrated to Microsoft Teams. When I say integrated this does not mean you have to search and add these apps, there are inside the Teams client; just

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Office 365 – New Compliance Center is now in preview

As announced few weeks ago at the Ignite Conference, a new compliance center is now live in preview. You can access the preview from https://aka.ms/compliancemanager. From there you will be to access all relevant information for your compliance – from the trust documentation to compliance and audit reports If you need to grant/manage access you

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SharePoint Online – Configure Idle session timeout

A new SharePoint Online settings is being rolled out to let you configure the idle session timeout. The idle session timeout setting will let you configure how long the system is waiting before notifying and then logging out an inactive user. This setting applies only on web browser session and should not impact OneDrive for

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Teams – PowerShell module is now available for Microsoft Teams

As for all other Microsoft cloud services (Azure, Office 365…) Microsoft Teams now has his own PowerShell module. You can get it by opening a PowerShell prompt (as usual always runas Administrator) and run the command Install-Module -Name MicrosoftTeams If required you will need to install NuGet and trust the repository The current version (0.9.0)

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Exchange Online – New Client Access Rules for Exchange Online

An update is currently under way (scheduled to be completed by end of December) to help you better manage client access to Exchange Online. Client Access Rule for Exchange Online can only be managed by PowerShell. With this new capability, you can define access rules to authorize/block access based on client IP addresses, clients used,

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Office 365 – Share (or do not share) data between Office 365 and LinkedIn

As it has been announced earlier in September, a new functionality is being rolled out to Office 365 users (Exchange, SharePoint and OneDrive) to provide relationship information using LinkedIn (now part of Microsoft). If you want to manage this feature – i.e. enabling or disabling it, you need to go to your Azure AD administration

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Azure AD – New Azure AD Resilience feature coming, update to your ADFS required

New Azure Active Directory (AAD) feature is coming to provide more resilience. If you are using federated authentication, like with AD FS, you must be prepared and update your federation service to use the new endpoints. If you are using AD FS and use Azure AD Connect to configure/maintain it, Azure AD Connect will do

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Exchange – You can now migrate your Public Folders to an Office 365 Groups

If you are thinking to move away from Exchange Public Folders (either on-premises or online), you have a new potential target available: Office 365 Groups. Yes, you have read right; you can now migrated Exchange Public Folders (from Exchange 2010-2013-2016 on premises or Exchange Online) to an Office 365 Groups. Doing so, you will need

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