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Exchange Relieves Hybrid Deployment Blockers for On-Premises Customers

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Revealed at the Ignite conference, Microsoft plans to make some changes relatively soon to relieve the complexity and overhead of deploying and managing hybrid Exchange organizations. Microsoft also showed how to move mailboxes between tenants. It’s a small part of the tenant-to-tenant migration scenario, but it’s good to see it happening.

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Microsoft Withdraws Plans to Charge for Office 365 Inactive Mailboxes

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A UK-based leak revealed a plan to require Office 365 inactive mailboxes to have licenses. Storage costs, but because Microsoft told people to use inactive mailboxes for purposes such as keeping content for ex-employees, it wasn’t a good idea to suddenly demand licenses. Good sense prevailed and the plan isn’t going ahead.

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Office 365 Multi-Geo Solves Data Sovereignty but not Network Problems

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Microsoft will release Office 365 multi-geo tenants to general availability in early 2018. You can then deploy Exchange Online, OneDrive for Business, and (later) SharePoint Online across multiple Office 365 datacenter regions. It’s good for data sovereignty, but won’t solve network problems.

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Tony’s Office 365 Snippets from Ignite – Day 2

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Day 2 at Ignite featured news about SharePoint, Exchange, Office 365 Groups, and Teams, And on a personal note, I had the chance to speak twice. That was nice, but I;m exhausted and there’s still three days to go.

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Office 365 Admin News from Ignite 2017

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Microsoft made a number of announcements about improvements they are making to Office 365 administration at the Ignite 2017 conference. Here’s a synopsis of what was announced from support for scoped administration using Azure AD admin units to a new “Usage Score.”

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Transitioning Skype for Business Online to Microsoft Teams

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At the Ignite conference in Orlando, Microsoft confirmed that they will transition Skype for Business Online to Teams over the next year or so. Here’s how the transition will happen.

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Office 365 Audit Logging Generates Lots of Data – and Some Odd Entries

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Office 365 audit logging generates a lot of data – sometimes too much. The trick is to know what events are recorded and what applications capture. Some pretty strange audit events turn up in the log, but everyone should relax because they are just traces of the system doing its own thing.

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iOS 11 and Exchange 2016/Online: Not Kissing Cousins

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Apple released iOS 11 and found that the mail app cannot connect to Exchange Online or Exchange 2016. It’s all to do with HTTP2 connections. Apple tries to connect via ActiveSync but doesn’t do so the way that Exchange likes, or something like that. In any case, maybe now’s the time to consider Outlook for iOS.

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Things You Should Know About External Access for Teams

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Now that Microsoft has shipped external access for Teams, it is obvious that they have some work to do to smoothen access and increase functionality. Although access works as long as guest users have accounts in other Office 365 tenants, areas like switching, auditing what external users do, compliance, and blocking deserve some consideration. Here’s what we know from the last week.

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