Office 365

Office 365 – Office 365 Admin Universal App is GA

The Office 365 Admin Universal App has reached general availability.             If you have been running the beta version (Office 365 Admin Universal Beta) you need to install the released version. If you have been running the ‘old’ version of the Office 365 Admin app on Windows 10, the app will be updated - 

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Skype for Business – Getting MAPI unavailable message after switching to UCS

If you have configured you Skype for Business infrastructure to use UCS (Unified Contact Store) or if you have requested to get it enabled on Office 365 (yes, you do not have UCS activated by default on Office 365 and you need to open a SR to get it), you may face the following issue.

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Azure / Office 365 – Conditional Access is now available in preview

Azure AD Conditional Access policies for Office 365 (Exchange and SharePoint Online) is now available in preview; additional services may be supported (see at the end of this post). This will make it easier to request multi-factor authentication when accessing Office 365 services. Until then, either you had to manage it at the ADFS level

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Office 365 / Exchange Online – You can now define the attachment types you want to block

An update on Exchange Online is now allowing administrators to define attachment types policy to define what they want to block or authorize. To update your configuration, open your Exchange Online ECP (https://outlook.office365.com/ecp/) and go to the the Protection section to access the Malware filter options. Then either edit the exiting policies or create a

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Office 365 – Admin mobile app is updated

The administration mobile app for Office 365 has been updated (or will be within the next few weeks for iOS) This new version provides a new UI, simpler to use, plus new functionalities like resetting password (if you are not using ADFS or if you are using AADConnect with Password synch and password write-back), having

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Office 365 / Skype for Business – Get usage data using PowerShell

Skype for Business Online has been updated to provide usage data using PowerShell. If you want to get usage data, you need to have the Skype for Business Online PowerShell modules installed (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=39366) Then you need to connect to your tenant and use the Get-CsUserSession cmdlet Connect to your tenant – NOTE if your are

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Office 365 – SharePoint Sites has been redesigned and is now called SharePoint Home

Microsoft is deploying an update to SharePoint Online to redesign the so called SharePoint Sites page – known as the SharePoint directory managed by administrators to push SharePoint sites and SharePoint workloads to propose you other sites to follow – to a new SharePoint Home. Accessing this new SharePoint Home is easy, administrators and end-user

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Office 365 – Monitor Office 365 with Operation Management Suite

As you may know, Microsoft is providing a cloud based service to monitor your infrastructure called Operation Management Suite (OMS) which can work as a standalone solution (even if it is not yet at the same level than SCOM) or integrated with SCOM. Now, you can also monitor your Office 365 tenant with OMS. When

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Office 365 – Skype for Business now better integrated with OWA

An update is being deployed on Outlook on the Web (formerly Outlook Web Access) to provide a better integration with Skype for Business. This update will allow you to start IM conversation from the web interface and not only just managing your IM status The first thing is you need to check if you have

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