Office 365

Office 365 – Message center can now sync with Planner

By now, you should know the Message Center in Office 365 Administration portal, the service used by Microsoft to announce updates, improvements or new services / capabilities for Office 365 services. Well, the Message Center can now sync with Planner, helping task automation for action. When you setup the Message Center integration with Planner, you […]

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SharePoint Online – File delete lockout overwrite in SharePoint Online

SharePoint Online has now a file delete lockout overwrite feature. This capability will allow you to overwrite the file deletion lockout from the SharePoint Online document library when the document(s) you are trying to delete is/are already in use by somebody else (either by using Office client or Office on the Web). You will notice

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Stream – you can now enable noise suppression on uploaded videos

A noise suppression capability has been added to Microsoft Stream, the enterprise video streaming from Microsoft available with Office 365. Stream is also used by Microsoft Teams to save recorded meetings. You can now enable noise suppression to automatically remove all background noise. NOTE this option is not available for recorded Teams meeting because the

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Office 365 – Office 2013 clients will no longer be able to access Office 365 services

This is a reminder as this has been announced in September 2019 (https://www.microsoft.com/microsoft-365/blog/2017/04/20/office-365-proplus-updates/), Office 2013 clients will no longer be able to access Office 365 services (Exchange Online, SharePoint Online or OneDrive for Business) starting October 13th 2020. If you are still using Office 2013 clients to access Office 365 services you have to plan

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SharePoint Online – SharePoint 2010 Workflow is being retired

SharePoint Online has been there since the start of Office 365, initially based on SharePoint 2010, and then has evolved. Because it started with SharePoint 2010, SharePoint Online has been providing some capabilities and features from SharePoint 2010, such as workflows. Well, the SharePoint 2010 workflow capability is going to be retired with the following

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Office 365 – Edge Chromium is going to be pushed and replace Edge ‘Legacy’

As you know Microsoft has introduced a new browser earlier in 2015 for Windows 10 and then being made available to iOS, Android and MacOS devices to replace the old Internet Explorer web browser. Since then, Edge has evolved to move to another browser engine with a new version called Edge Chromium. So at this

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Office 365 – You can now have a consolidated view of all products and services

With more and more services, integration and features available from Office 365 it can be become a little bit difficult to stay on top of what is being used through your Office 365 tenant. Well, a new Your products section has appear below the Billing section of the Office 365 administration portal (https://admin.microsoft.com/) From there

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Office 365 / Office – A new protection capability has been added to Office 365 ATP: Safe Documents

As you already know, Office clients always open ‘unsafe’ documents (email attachment or downloaded from the Internet) in the well-known Protected View (https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/what-is-protected-view-d6f09ac7-e6b9-4495-8e43-2bbcdbcb6653?ui=en-us&rs=en-us&ad=us) to block all active content (like links) or edition mode. That said, we all know also that end-users quickly turn off the Protected View without even checking if this action is safe.

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Exchange Online – Cortana Email, new automatically generated briefing email

A new automated generated email feature is being introduced to Office 365/Exchange Online called Cortana Email. This new feature provides incoming meetings and outstanding tasks summary to end user. At this stage, this Cortana Email is going to be sent to users: which are part of the Targeted Release – either individually assigned or tenant

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