Office 365

Office 365 / SharePoint Online – Shared with everyone folder will no longer be created automatically

Since August 1st, all NEW OneDrive for Business site (so called MySite) will be provisioned without the Shared with everyone folder. It seems it took longer than expected as my tenant was not updated to support this new configuration. Now it is done, here is how you can request to continue to get the Shared […]

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Office 365 / SharePoint Online – Updated FROM email address for mail sent by SharePoint Online

Starting now (and scheduled to be completed by the end of January), Microsoft is updating the FROM address for email sent by SharePoint Online. The new email address will be no-reply@sharepointonline.com. This change is to address issues with such emails which could frequently being marked as spam and so either received in the Junk folder

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Office 365 / Exchange Online – You can now previsualize messages put in quarantine

As you know, with Office 365 and Exchange Online, emails potentially identified as spam but not 100% identified as is are put in a quarantine. End-users can release these mails and set it as false positive as well as the Exchange Online administrators. A recent update on Exchange Online has introduced a new (and very

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Office 365 / Exchange – Find time a new add-on to help you scheduling meeting time

We all know it can be quite a challenge some time to schedule meeting with people. Microsoft has released a new add-on called Find Time which works with Outlook 2013/2016 and Office 365 (you must have an Office 365 subscriptions) to help you find the right time to schedule a meeting with someone – ok,

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Office 365 / Skype for Business – Tool to update your Dial In Conferencing numbers

With the availability of the Enterprise Plan 5 which includes lot of premium services, including Dial In Conferencing, Microsoft proposes a tool to update your dial in conferencing number if you have enabled the Skype for Business PSTN Conferencing license You can get the tool from http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=47729 (32 bits version) Then deploy the package (very

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Office 365 / Skype for Business – Critical actions for Skype for Meeting Broadcast

As you may know, some time ago Microsoft has announced a new Skype for Business service to host large meeting called Skype for Meeting Broadcast. This has been in preview since July 2015. Now, as the service is scheduled for production very soon, preview customers need to update their configuration to use Azure CND –

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Office 365 / OneDrive for Business – Disable the new experience for everyone

As you may know, Microsoft has announced some improvements on OneDrive for Business – such as a new synchronization client and a new web UI (see https://blog.onedrive.com/meet-the-new-onedrive-for-business/) If you have enabled First Preview for your tenant (all organization or selected users) you may already have the new web UI available as per below Each user

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Yammer – Yammer SSO and Yammer DirSync are being deprecated and removed

Good news It seems that Microsoft is finally making the long awaited move to consolidate all the identity management stuff for Yammer with Office 365. They already made on step by allowing the configuration to use Office 365 Identity, now it has been announced that the Yammer DirSync will be also (finally) removed. Ok, we

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Yammer – Enforce Office 365 Identity in Yammer and Yammer DirSync stops working

As you may be aware, Microsoft has introduce a new security/identity feature on Yammer to enforce all users to use their Office 365 credentials. It may be one step to get closer for the long waited unified directory synchronization tool for both Office 365 and Yammer, but this is the subject. If you enable this

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Office 365 – Analyze the security settings for your tenant

UPDATE 24/11/2015 – The script has been already updated has some bugs have been found. So please ensure you are always using the latest version by downloading it from the website Microsoft is currently testing (early beta stage) an Office 365 security analyzer to help administrators to understand their current security configuration and potential risks

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