Office 365

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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Office 365 – New controls for Microsoft Teams

New controls are being deployed to let administrators define the authorized interaction between Microsoft Teams and applications. It will give administrators the ability to allow application and define which one(s) will be authorized for use with Teams To manage it go to your Office 365 Administration portal and reach the Settings\Services & add-ins section Select

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Microsoft Teams – You can create a Teams meeting with Outlook

If you are using Office 365 Pro Plus (meaning Office Click to Run) and using Microsoft Teams, the latest updates have added an add-on to Outlook to let you create a Teams meeting You also have this option when creating a ‘classic’ meeting or with an appointment   When using this add-on, your meeting is

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Office 365 – New scheduling assistant is coming….

A new scheduling assistant is coming to you; apparently this may replace the Outlook add-in ‘Find Time’. This is using Cortana. Setup This new scheduling assistant is currently in preview; so first thing you have to do is to connect to https://calendar.help/ and request an invitation You will need to grant the permission to the

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Office 365 – You can now manage domain guest access for Groups

An update is being rolled out to let you manage allowed/blocked domains for guest access to Office 365 Groups. After allowing guest access to Groups, Microsoft now helps securing this access by allowing administrators to define a list of allowed/blocked domains. This feature is not available (yet?) using the Office 365 administration portal but with

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Office 365 – New sign in experience

A new sign-in experience to logon to Microsoft cloud services (Azure / Office 365) is being rolled out. The next time you will logon to Microsoft cloud services you may notice this notification on the top right If you click on the Try it now link you will then get the new login experience or

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SharePoint Online – Easily getting back to Modern Experience

As you may know, SharePoint Online now has 2 end-user experience: Modern Classic Until then it was easy to from Modern to Classic experience but it was a little bit less easy to get back from Classic to Modern Now, it is becoming easier; an update is being deployed to provided a shortcut to get

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Yammer – The Yammer application is now available

The new Yammer application for Windows is now available The next time you logon to your Yammer network, check the bottom right of the window to get the application (you can also go directly here https://aka.ms/yammer_desktop_ia32) Once installed the application will start automatically and may ask you to logon; a desktop shortcut and in the

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Microsoft Team – Recover a deleted Team

As you may know Microsoft Team is “chat-based” collaboration tool part of Office 365. So if you are using Microsoft Teams, you may have as an administrator to recover a deleted Team. As for many recovery process with Office 365, this all start with PowerShell. Prerequisites First you need to have the preview of AzureAD

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SharePoint Online – The ‘Sync’ button will now use the new OneDrive sync client

Starting mi-August, the synchronization option available on SharePoint Online library will be updated to use the new OneDrive sync client. Currently the ‘Sync’ button is still pointing to the previous OneDrive for Business sync client. If your users are still using the old sync client at this time, the next time they will be upgraded

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