Office 365

Office 365 – Multi Factor Authentication (MFA) support for Office client is now in Public Preview

After being announced some months ago and an internal/private beta program, support for Multi Factor Authentication for Office client is now available in public preview. MFA support for Office client means if you are using the MFA feature available through Office 365 to secure access to your Office 365 tenant (or the Azure MFA to

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Lync / Skype for Business / Office 365 – Native support for PSTN will be available in Office 365

After announcing the Skype for Business preview (formerly Lync), Microsoft has announced today that PSTN support will be natively available in Office 365 (starting with US first this summer) See the announcement here http://blogs.office.com/2015/03/18/skype-for-business-is-here-and-this-is-only-the-beginning/ (section The right cloud for communication and productivity in the middle of the page) You can also sign in to be

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Office 365 / Yammer – Change to the integration of Yammer with SharePoint

Microsoft is making some changes in the integration of Yammer with SharePoint; as part of these changes, the Yammer App for SharePoint (2013 and Online) and the Yammer webpart for SharePoint 2010 will be discontinued on March 15th, 2016.   At this date, these applications will stop working completely. The Yammer Embed will be the

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Office 365 – Office 365 Admin mobile application has been updated

It has been a while since the Office 365 admin mobile application (on Windows Phone, iOS and Android) has been published. Since then, there has been few (not to say no) updates while Office 365 services were evolving very quickly. Finally, today, this app has been updated. You still CAN NOT completely manage your Office

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Office 365 – New compliance center is coming

As announced on the Message Center, over the next few weeks a new compliance service/feature will be deployed on Office 365. This new feature is in fact a compliance center which will become the single place to manage compliance across Office 365 services, from Exchange to SharePoint sites. At the time of writing this post,

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Office 365 / OneDrive for Business – Microsoft will remove the OneDrive for Business app from the store

As you may know, OneDrive for Business is the personal space of each user on Office 365. When Windows 8 has been released, Microsoft has also published an app to connect to OneDrive for Business. On March 27th, Microsoft will remove this app from the store, meaning already installed app will no longer be updated

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Office 365 / SharePoint Online – New option available on the contextual menu on OneDrive for Business

As you may already know, Microsoft is frequently introducing new features and services to his cloud services. As part of these new features/services, an update on the contextual menu in OneDrive for Business now allows user to copy/move items within his own space(at this time, this option is ONLY available on OneDrive for Business, not

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Office 365 – Exchange Hybrid Configuration Troubleshooting tool

Microsoft has announced and delivered a tool to help in the Exchange Hybrid Configuration troubleshooting process. As you may know, the Exchange Hybrid Configuration allows a simple way to move mailboxes between on premises Exchange and online, share the free/busy details between online and on premises, mail flow security with antispam/antimalware (if going through Exchange

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Office 365 / Azure AD – Force a synchronization with Azure Active Directory Connect

As you may already know, Microsoft has released some time ago a new tool – AAD Connect for Azure Active Directory Connect – to manage on premises Active Directory with Office 365 and Azure Active Directory tenants. This tool is intended to replace the existing Directory Synchronization (DirSync) tool for Office 365 in a few

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Yammer – Finally Yammer is using Office 365 authentication

It has been announced some time ago, and now the roll out seems in a good progress. Yammer is finally now using your Office 365 tenant authentication scheme – be careful this will not work if you already have a federation with Yammer. This means when a user try to sign in to Yammer using

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