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A very simple use case let us give up our Distribution lists. This article discusses why and how we did it and delivers tips how to improve your experience with Office 365 groups. How can you replace “old” distribution groups from a synced environment with “new” Office 365 groups? And how to add, delete or modify email addresses to an Office 365 group? This article shows the steps. After we replaced all distribution lists with Office 365 groups, we got some questions, like ...

Office 365 Groups provide a bunch of useful features for collaboration. In some cases, users want to send emails from an Office 365 group as sender. Here’s the “HowTo” to accomplish “SendAs” permissions to an Office 365 group for users. By default, users do not have any permissions to send from an Office 365 Group. So, if you try to send an email with such a sender address, you will get a reply similar as here. ...

In many of my Office 365 projects customer want to limit the self-service of Office 365 groups creation. Gladly, this is possible in Office 365, with the definition that just specific users are able to create Office 365 groups. Since the launch of Microsoft Teams in March 2017 customers asked me several times if this policy also affect the creation of Microsoft teams? Well, let’s take a look. In a previous blog post, we described how to setup Office 365 Groups policies, check out Management capabilities for Office 365 Groups. Since Microsoft Teams depend on Office 365 groups, we document this scenario step-by-step. ...

Recently, the Microsoft MVP Award Program Blog published my three-part series about “Working With Office 365 Groups And Connectors”. Read the articles online in the MVP blog here: Part 1 - Working with Office 365 Groups and Connectors Part 2 - Working with Office 365 Groups and Connectors Part 3 - Working with Office 365 Groups and Connectors Also, thanks to Richard Hay for posting the summary at windowsitpro.com: Learn more about Office 365 Groups and Connectors. ...

The goal was administer an Office365 tenant as delegated partner. But, currently I had difficulties to access another Office365 tenant in the Microsoft Partner Portal. When selecting a partner and opening the Office 365 admin center, not the partner tenant was opened but instead my own tenant. I didn’t figure out why this no longer was working. Anyway, I tried to use PowerShell instead… The red marked links opened the Microsoft Partner Portal, but not on behalf of the partner tenant, but only showing my own Office 365 tenant… ...

Today, just a short info for Azure Active Directory guys: #AzureAD PowerShell V2.0 is now GA! In this blogpost, Alex Simons and Rob de Jong inform that the PowerShell Azure AD v2.0 cmdlets are now generally available (GA). See the details at the Technet Blog and at Azure Active Directory V2 PowerShell Module - General Availability Release 2.0.0.33. Prerequisites Azure Active Directory V2 PowerShell Module can be installed on Windows starting with versions of Windows 7 SP1 and Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 and up. ...

As Jeffrey Snover ,Technical Fellow at Microsoft Enterprise Cloud Group, announced recently, PowerShell is open sourced and is available on Linux! It’s interesting to see that PowerShell - as a command-line shell and scripting language which is based on the Microsoft .NET Framework – now is available on Linux. This is possible because of the new .NET Core system running on Linux. In our modern times, when “Microsoft loves Linux”, such things are possible – and seem logical! ...

MailTips in Exchange Online können für unterschiedliche Dinge verwendet werden: gibt es eine DLP Policy, die den Benutzer warnt, bevor er sicherheitsrelevante Nachrichten versendet oder dies sogar verhindert oder auch einfache MailTips, die vor allem dazu dienen sollen, den Nachrichtenverlauf zu verbessern. Beispielsweise könnte ein MailTip dazu dienen den Absender zu informieren, dass er gerade an eine Verteilerliste mit mehr as 25 Empfängern sendet. Heute möchte ich einen MailTip vorstellen, den es schon eine ganze Weile in Exchange Online gibt und er dabei helfen soll, Mailbenutzer daran zu erinnern, dass Sie externe Empfänger in Ihrer Adressatenliste haben. ...

Skype for Business Online ist ein wichtiges Service von Office 365 mit dem professionelle Teamarbeit und Online Besprechungen sowie Web-und Videokonferenzen möglich sind. Im Unternehmensumfeld müssen die Berechtigungen und Features gut geplant werden, sehr oft werden dort andere Anforderungen an eine Implementierung gesetzt, als in der Standardkonfiguration vorgesehen sind. Beispielsweise kann es im Unternehmen nicht erwünscht sein, dass via Skype for Business Online Dateien und Dokumente ausgetauscht werden. Oder es soll das Recording von Videokonferenzen unterbunden werden. Oft wünschen sich Kunden auch, dass Video unterbunden wird, während Audio erlaubt ist. Sie sehen also, eine Reihe von Anforderungen, die hier umgesetzt werden sollen. Skype for Business bedient sich dazu sogenannter Conferencingpolicies, die einzelnen Benutzern zugewiesen werden können. ...

Policy tips in Exchange Online can be used for a lot of things: warnings if a user sends confidential information to someone outside the organization if a proper DLP policy is in place or other useful things. One simple and effective MailTip is available for a while now and helps to raise user awareness in writing e-mails. Nothing special happens, only due to the fact that the MailTip is here the sender probably thinks twice: are all my recipients correct? ...