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Using PowerShell to Check Group or Team Membership

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PowerShell is great at getting lots done for Office 365 administrators. As an example, here are a couple of ways to check the membership of an Office 365 Group or a Microsoft Team to find out whether a specific user is already present. You might never need to use this tip, but then again, it’s always surprising when PowerShell comes to the rescue.

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Microsoft Releases Exchange 2019 Preferred Architecture

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Meeting the commitment given at Ignite 2018, Microsoft has published the preferred architecture for Exchange 2019. As you’d expect, the architecture is highly influenced by the cloud. The fingerprints of Exchange Online are all over the document, but at least it’s nice to see some technology (the MetaCache) being transferred from the cloud to on-premises customers.

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Using the Office 365 Audit Log to Track Retention Labels

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Office 365 Classification Audits
Office 365 Classification Audits

Office 365 allows users to apply classification labels to SharePoint and OneDrive documents and to Exchange messages. But after you’ve done the work to create a nice set of classification labels as part of your data governance framework, it’s good to know that people are using the labels. Here’s how to find out.

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Outlook Click-to-Run Optimizes AutoDiscover for Office 365

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Microsoft has optimized the Click-to-Run version of Outlook for Office 365. There’s nothing startling about that, but the Outlook team didn’t communicate the change well and they weren’t very kind to people who asked them to reconsider the change in UserVoice. That’s not good.

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Analyzing the Numbers for Different Office 365 Workloads

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Office 365 with Teams
Office 365 with Teams

Microsoft says that Office 365 has 155 million monthly active users. That’s an interesting statistic, but how many people use Exchange, SharePoint, Teams, Yammer, and Planner? Microsoft never gives firm numbers, only clues to what might be happening, so we have to do some analysis to tease out what might be happening behind the Office 365 curtain.

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Outlook Mobile Gets a New Architecture

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Microsoft has simplified the synchronization architecture used to connect Outlook mobile clients to Exchange. The new approach sets the scene for some new functionality, like support for S/MIME and access to shared mailboxes. It’s all good and it marks the continued progress of Outlook mobile since the Acompli acquisition in 2014.

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Rights Management, Protection, and Email AutoSignatures

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Given the increased ways to apply rights management protection (encryption) to Exchange Online messages, the volume of encrypted traffic should rise. That’s good for users because their email is protected, but it’s not so good for ISVs who must deal with encrypted email. One such example is autosignature products, where server-based components can’t touch protected email to add their text.

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Using Office 365 Sensitivity Labels

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Office 365 with Teams
Office 365 with Teams

Sensitivity labels allow Office 365 tenants to encrypt messages and documents very easily. That is, as long as you have applications that understand labels. A preview version of the AIP client integrates a Sensitivity button in the Office desktop applications, but we must wait for native integration across desktop, web, and mobile clients.

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Good News for Office 365 as Microsoft Acquires FSLogix

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Maximizing VDI - Virtual Classroom
Maximizing VDI - Virtual Classroom

Microsoft announced on November 19 that they had acquired FSLogix, a developer of software aimed at easing the pains of VDI deployments. The news is good for Office 365 tenants because if there’s one suite that needs to have some VDI pain eased, it’s Office 365.

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Unifying Office 365 Sensitivity Labels with Azure Information Protection

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Sensitivity Labels
Sensitivity Labels

The new sensitivity labels available in Office 365 bring marking and protection functionality for Exchange and SharePoint that was previously only available with Azure Information Protection. In this article, we consider how to migrate AIP labels to Office 365 so that users can encrypt their way to happiness.

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