Microsoft Delays June 2021 Cumulative Update for Exchange Server
Microsoft has delayed the release of the June 2021 cumulative updates for Exchange Server for two weeks to integrate the Windows Antimalware Scan interface.
June 12, 2021
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Microsoft Teams Rooms
How Outlook’s Room Finder Uses Metadata from the Places Service
The Outlook Places service uses metadata stored for conference rooms and room lists to help users find suitable meeting places.
June 9, 2021
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PowerShell Microsoft Graph
Moving on from Send-MailMessage: Sending Email from PowerShell using the Graph API
Many PowerShell scripts use the Send-MailMessage cmdlet to send mail. That's fine, but if you want to remove basic authentication to improve tenant security, you need to stop using Send-MailMessage.
June 8, 2021
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Exchange Online Powershell
Getting Exchange Online Distribution List Membership Counts with PowerShell
It's important to know if a tenant has any very large distribution lists as these might be the source of reply-all mail storms. An old article explains how to report the membership counts for distribution lists.
June 7, 2021
Microsoft Teams
Deploying Custom Teams Group Policy Assignments
Microsoft Teams uses an array of policies to control the features available to end users. Group policy assignments make it easier to assign packages of policies to groups of users.
June 3, 2021
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Azure AD
How to Block User Access to Microsoft 365 Accounts
A variety of methods exist to block access to Microsoft 365 accounts (Azure AD) from a complete block to a conditional access policy.
June 1, 2021
Upgrade Your Exchange Online Scripts to Use the Get-EXOMailbox Cmdlet
Many Exchange Online scripts use the old Get-Mailbox cmdlet to fetch mailbox data. It's time to change these calls out and replace them with Get-ExoMailbox. The new cmdlet is faster than the old and more resilient in its ability to handle server glitches. There's no reason to continue using the old Remote PowerShell cmdlets unless you like slowness and errors.
May 26, 2021
Microsoft Teams
Talking Teams with Rish Tandon
Tony Redmond sat down (virtually) with Rish Tandon, Corporate VP for Microsoft Teams Development, to discuss how Teams has evolved over the last few years.
May 24, 2021
Microsoft Extends Teams Retention Policies to All Licensed Office 365 Accounts
Microsoft announced a bunch of changes for Microsoft 365 records management on May 19. The most interesting changes are allowing all licenses Office 365 accounts to use Teams retention policies.
May 20, 2021
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Sensitivity Labels
Microsoft Updates Outlook to use Advanced Settings for Sensitivity Labels
Updates to Outlook clients (desktop, mobile, and OWA) respect the advanced settings in label policy which previously needed the deployment of the unified labeling client.
May 19, 2021
Microsoft Updates Viva Insights App with Wellbeing Features
A new version of the Microsoft Viva Insights app for Teams includes some of the promised wellbeing functionality designed to help stressed users get through the work day more easily.
May 14, 2021
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Powershell New-DistributionGroup
New-DistributionGroup: A PowerShell Cmdlet Which Gets No Respect
The New-DistrubtionGroup cmdlet has been in Exchange since 2006. It creates a new distribution list that is easily populated with a few commands.
May 12, 2021