Office 365

Exchange Online – You may see a question mark in place of the photo

As explained in a blog post on MSDN, if you use Exchange Online (or Outlook.com) you may start seeing a question mark (?) in place of the photo/initial on received emails. Do not worry, this is an additional information level provided to end-user to protect themselves against spam or phishing. Microsoft is adding this additional

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Exchange Online – You can delete mails from the quarantine

As Exchange Online administrator, you should review from time to time what is being put in the Exchange Online Protection quarantine. Now, in addition of the usual Release and Release & Report to release inappropriately quarantined message, you can Delete it. If you use the Ctrl or Shift key you can delete multiple quarantined email

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Exchange Online – Reminder: RPC over HTTPS is being deprecated

It has been announced some time ago already but a reminder is worth it as the date is approaching. RPC over HTTP connectivity to Exchange Online is being deprecated and replaced by MAPI over HTTP on October 31, 2017. If you are using an old version of Office/Outlook (2007, 2010 or 2013) you need to

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Microsoft Teams – Integrate Yammer feed with Teams

While Microsoft Teams, the new collaborative tool coming with Office 365, evolves quickly, here is how to integrate Yammer with Teams to get the Yammer feed available. Teams comes with lot of out of the box connectors – or you can also develop you own For this one, I will use the out of the

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SharePoint Online – Excel Surveys is being replaced by Forms for Excel

As you know, sometime ago Microsoft has launched a new Office 365 to create forms simply called Forms. Now, Forms is taking over and is now replacing Excel Surveys on SharePoint Online, and more specifically on OneDrive for Business. Excel Surveys is now Forms for Excel and you will be redirected to the Forms page

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Office 365 – Office 365 Groups mailnickname uniqueness is being enforced

An update is being deployed to enforce uniqueness of mailnickname assigned to an Office 365 Groups and is scheduled to be completed by the end of August. Prior to this update, this was not enforced and then caused potential collisions when you were using AAD Connect groups writeback. Any Office 365 Groups created before this

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Office 365 – You can now get your monthly invoice by email

An update has been deployed to Office 365 which allow you to get your invoice being sent by email. To enable this, just logon to your Office 365 administration portal and reach the Billing notifications section Then Turn on the functionality The next invoice will be automatically sent to all your Global Administrator and Billing

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Office 365 – Shared status indicator in OneDrive for Business

An update is being deployed to add a shared status indication in OneDrive for Business. When the update will be deployed on your tenant, your end-users will see when a folder on their OneDrive for Business has been shared. The following icon will be shown in the navigation bar And when clicking on it, they

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Office 365 – Make Office 365 Groups expiring (preview)

As you know Office 365 Groups is one of the various collaboration features available on Office 365; one available as self-service to end-users. This means you may ended after some time to have quite a lot Office 365 Groups while they are not used anymore as tied to a project or any other temporary need.

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Exchange Online – New functionality to clean up your mailbox

An update has been deployed on Exchange Online (Outlook on the Web [formerly Outlook Web Access]) to help users cleaning up their mailbox and have a view on their folders size (ordered by size – bigger to smaller). They also will be able to apply a retention policy to the folder while having an idea

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