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Deploying the Microsoft Teams Desktop Client
Microsoft Teams is now generally available for Office 365 customers, and for those of you who are planning to use it you may be looking for a way to deploy the Teams client to your user’s computers....
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How Secure is Sending Emails to Microsoft Teams Channels?
One of the features of Microsoft Teams is the ability to send email to Team channels. When a channel receives an email, a new discussion thread is started, and the Team members can discuss the topic...
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How Important Are Important Security Updates?
I’ve seen a lot of customer environments that have a Microsoft security patching policy that could be summarized as: Critical patches deployed ASAP Everything else can wait The idea is that the most...
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Making Sense of Automatic Group Creation in Office 365
Last week a new message appeared in Message Center to let Office 365 customers know about an upcoming change: To help managers collaborate more effectively with their employees, we will automatically...
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March 2017 Updates Released for Exchange Server
Microsoft has announced the latest round of quarterly updates for all supported versions of Exchange Server. Cumulative Update 5 for Exchange Server 2016 (download | UM language packs) Cumulative...
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Help Shape the Fourth Edition of Office 365 for IT Pros
As announced earlier this month, work has begun on the fourth edition of Office 365 for IT Pros. For those of you who are not familiar with the history of this book, here’s a quick summary. The first...
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Restricting OneDrive Sync to Domain Joined PCs
For some organizations there is a concern when deploying OneDrive for Business that users will access corporate data from their personal computers. If the personal computers are not well secured, such...
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The Debate Over Enabling New Office 365 Features by Default
The recently announced Office 365 feature that will automatically create Groups based on manager/reports relationships in Active Directory reignited the debate about new features being enabled by...
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Restoring Deleted Office 365 Groups
Microsoft is rolling out the long-awaited capability to restore a deleted Office 365 Group. When Groups are deleted they are now retained for 30 days by default in a “soft deleted” state, and...
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What’s New in Office 365 for March 2017
March has been a huge month for Office 365 Groups. We kicked things off with a change to the email sending behavior for Groups, which immediately confused people who were used to seeing their own Group...
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DirSync and AADSync Support is Ending, Time to Upgrade to Azure AD Connect
Microsoft has provided a variety of directory synchronization tools to customers over the years, most recently Azure AD Connect (AADConnect). Previously, customers could choose from DirSync or Azure AD...
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New Pluralsight Course – Managing Exchange Mailboxes and Distribution Groups...
I’m pleased to announce that my latest Pluralsight course, Managing Exchange Mailboxes and Distribution Groups in PowerShell, has emerged from the production cycle and is now available to watch. I...
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First Steps: Configure Office 365 First Release Settings
Signing up to a cloud service like Office 365 means you’re on board for whatever changes the vendor deploys to customers. That is one benefit of cloud services, but some customers see it as a risk and...
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Removing an Auto-Mapped Mailbox from Outlook
A customer asked about a situation in which they’re unable to remove mailboxes from users’ Outlook profiles. In this case they were shared mailboxes and appeared in the left pane of Outlook. Although...
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Test-ExchangeServerHealth.ps1 Has Been Updated to V1.16
A new version of Test-ExchangeServerHealth.ps1 is now available for download. This update contains the following fixes and improvements: Shadow redundancy queues are no longer included in the transport...
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Reporting Office 365 Admin Role Group Members
Office 365 allows organizations to delegate administrative privileges in a granular fashion. There is an over-arching “Global Administrator” role, as well as a series of lower privilege roles for...
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Mailbox Permissions vs Mailbox Folder Permissions
When you are granting access for one user to access another mailbox, whether that be another user’s mailbox or a shared mailbox, you can configure the access using either mailbox permissions or mailbox...
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First Steps: Configuring Office 365 Groups Settings
Groups are a collaboration feature of Office 365 that allow teams to work together using a shared mailbox, calendar, SharePoint file repository, and OneNote notebook. Office 365 Groups are also a...
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What’s New in Office 365 for April 2017
Office 365 for IT Pros, 3rd Edition is continually updated with new information, changes and corrections. Customers who bought the book from this website can download the updated files from their...
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Managing Office 365 Licenses with the Azure AD V2 PowerShell Module
In Office 365 we have three methods of managing license assignments for individual or multiple user accounts. Using the Office 365 admin portal Using Azure AD group-based license management Using...
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