Office 365

Yammer – The network name (and default domain) will now be managed by Office 365

An update on Yammer will link the network name (company network) as well as the default domain with Office 365. This means if the Office 365 tenant name (not the URL xxx.onmicrosoft.com) will be updated, it will be reflected automatically to Yammer. on Yammer will become from Office 365 Also, when you change the default […]

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Exchange – You can access delegated mailboxes when running in hybrid mode

UPDATE 09/11/2016 Delegated access applies only for full access; send-as, send on behalf or delegation from Outlook do not work. Cross-premises permissions do not work in OWA Details https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj200581(v=exchg.150).aspx   This has been a major limitation of the Exchange Hybrid mode for quite long time. I just noticed that you can now have access to

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Yammer – Improvements in file sharing, now integrated with OneDrive for Business and new document creation options

You can now browse your OneDrive for Business to share documents on Yammer as well as create new Office documents directly from Yammer.   Integration with OneDrive for Business When you want to share a document on Yammer, you used to have 2 options: either upload from your computer or browse an existing file on

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Office 365 – Microsoft Team, the chat based workspace

Microsoft has introduced a new collaboration feature on Office 365 called Microsoft Team. Microsoft Team is built on top of Office 365 Groups, SharePoint, Exchange and OneNote (plus off course Azure AD for the identity/authentication) As part of this introduction, the whitelisted endpoints has been updated – so if you are filtering internet access from

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Office 365 – Secure Score is now in preview

Security is a key point when moving / using a cloud service. Microsoft has made (and still making) lot of investment to ensure data and account security and help customers to get the most of it. A new step has just been done with the release in preview of Secure Score; a toolset integrated with

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Office 365 – You can now see if OneDrive is provisioned for a user using the administration portal

You can now see if OneDrive for Business ‘personal’ space has been provisioned for user, including quota and size limits, from the Office 365 Administration portal. Just logon to the Office 365 Administration portal with a global administrator account, go to the Users\Active Users and select the user you want to check. On the right

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Skype for Business / Office 365 – Troubleshoot your Skype for Business Hybrid configuration

As you know you can setup your On Premises Lync/Skype for Business deployment to work in hybrid mode with Skype for Business Online (as you can do with Exchange). That said this configuration is not always as smooth and easy as it is for Exchange and you may ended with issues. Knowing that Microsoft has

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Office 365 – Preview of the new OneDrive for Business client

It has been announced at the Ignite Conference at Atlanta. A preview of the new OneDrive for Business client is now available. The following are part of the improvements coming with the new version – some have been long waited: Ability to sync SharePoint Online document libraries – until then you were still obliged to

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Office 365 – Be notified when peoples are sharing content with you on SharePoint Online and OneDrive for Business

A new feature is being rolled out (first tenant and then general availability – expected to be completed by the end of the year) which will notify end-user by mobile push notification (same than the one you get when a new email arrived in your inbox) when someone is sharing content with them using SharePoint

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Office 365 – Enable Office 365 CDN for your SharePoint Online tenant

With Office 365 CDN (Content Delivery Network) you can improve the performance when accessing your SharePoint Online tenant by using a geo-distributed caching proxy; only static content (like picture files) is cached. This CDN capability can be a great improvement when accessing content hosted on your tenant when connected from a location far away from

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