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Skype for Business – Cloud Connector Edition 2.0 is now available in GA

The new release (version 2.0) of the Skype for Business Cloud Connector Edition is now available in general availability. For those who do not know what is CCE, this is a virtual appliance to connect your on-premises PBX with your users hosted in the cloud. So if you are already using CCE, the auto update

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Exchange Online – New options available to schedule a migration

An update has been deployed on Exchange Online which introduces 2 new options for the migration to Office 365 / Exchange Online using ECP These options allow you to schedule when the synchronization will start and when to autocomplete the migration. The corresponding PowerShell parameters are –StartAfter and –CompleteAfter; to be honest, I’m not sure

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Office 365 – Workplace Analytics, get more insights on how your collaborate

Microsoft Workplace Analytics has been delivered in GA (general availability) on July 6th. Workplace Analytics is available with Office 365 E5 subscriptions and as an add-on for some other subscriptions. Workplace Analytics use the power of Delve (and other services) to gather data and metadata on how your organization collaborates to highlight potential collaboration improvements.

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Office 365 – Visio Online is now in public preview

After being in private preview for few weeks/months, Visio Online is now available in public preview. After getting GA later this year, Visio Online will require a paid license to create new Visio file; the viewing experience will be free. This will be available on per user basis. To start using Visio Online preview you

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Office 365 – You can now pin Apps to the navigation bar

An update is currently being deployed (as usual First Release tenant first) to let you pin your Apps from the App Launcher directly to the navigation bar To do so, just open the App Launcher and right click (or click on the ellipsis …) to get the contextual menu and choose More\Pin to nav bar

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SharePoint Online – A new tenant setting to block downloading infected file

I noticed a new setting available at the tenant level in SharePoint Online called “DisallowInfectedFileDownload”; you can check thanks to the Get-SPOTenant PS command The setting name is quite self explanatory – the idea is to block downloading any infected file from SharePoint Online. For once I disagree with the default value set by Microsoft

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Office 365 – New Users section in the administration portal; Guest Users

I have noticed on my Office 365 Administration Portal a new section within the Users section: Guest users. This section returns all users which have been invited to access your tenant data – mainly from a SharePoint share link If this is not yet available to your tenant, it will come soon (mine is enabled

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Office 365 – You can mark actions from Secure Score as managed by third party

As you may know Office 365 Secure Score is a tool to help you securing your Office 365 tenant by checking your configuration and compare against best practices and recommendations. Microsoft has updated the Secure Score to allow you define recommended/proposed actions as managed by third party. This will help by keeping the recommended action

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Yammer – Integration with Skype for Business

Starting now for first release tenant and then mi July, Yammer is integrating with Skype for Business. Finally Microsoft is really integrating Yammer with his own product and start replacing duplicate features with the best. So the Yammer IM chat is going to be removed and you will get the Skype icon in the navigation

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Azure AD Connect – You can now update ADFS certificate, change the Source Anchor and grant SendOnBehalf permissions

After installing the latest version of Azure AD Connect (1.1.553.0), you will have the ability to update use it to update your ADFS Certificate (if you use AAD Connect to configure ADFS) as well as the ability to change the Source Anchor without having to reinstalling. Also a good news for Exchange Hybrid configuration, the

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