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How End-users Can Bypass Exchange Online Protection

Thijs Lecomte — Tue, 24 Oct 2023 10:00:00 +0000

Most think that the safe senders list does not override the anti-spam policies configured in Exchange Online, but the opposite is true. In this blog, we discuss how this happens and how to fix it with PowerShell.

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Microsoft 365 Copilot feature focus, SharePoint and Exchange announcements: Practical 365 Podcast S3 E27

Steve Goodman — Fri, 12 May 2023 17:41:03 +0000

In this episode of the Practical 365 Podcast, we dive into new details on Microsoft Copilot, new Microsoft Loop features, and SharePoint has some useful features on the way!

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Bridging the Gap Between Microsoft Teams and Email

Tony Redmond — Tue, 25 Jan 2022 07:43:00 +0000

Teams is mostly an internal communications platform while email connects billions of people around the world. Inside Microsoft 365 tenants, you might need to connect Teams and email together. In this article, we discuss the out-of-the-box features available to link the two and describe some of the positive and negative points of each. You can certainly bridge the gap between Teams and email, but maybe Microsoft could grease the connection just a little more...

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Teams Chat Becomes Fluid (or Lively)

Tony Redmond — Tue, 27 Jul 2021 07:32:00 +0000

Teams is the first major Microsoft 365 application to ship support for Fluid components. Teams chats can include components like a task list, checklist, table, or paragraph. When a live component is sent to other chat participants, everyone involved in the chat can edit and update the component. It's a new way of collaborative working which challenges traditional approaches. Fluid components will also find their way into applications like OneNote, Outlook, and Whiteboard. Looks like a good thing, but how do these components work in practice?

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Three Ways to Improve Meetings in Teams (Which You Can’t Have) And One Which Might Maybe Help a Little (Which You Can)

Paul Robichaux — Mon, 10 May 2021 12:56:44 +0000

Having Teams meeting fatigue? Could the meeting have been an email instead? In his latest blog Paul Robichaux explores some tongue-in-cheek options for better regulation of Teams meetings, while also proposing a realistic solution to efficiently manage your time, your Teams meetings, and your sanity.

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How to report on suspicious emails in Office 365 – Part 1

Tony Akers — Fri, 25 Jan 2019 03:00:00 +0000

In part one of this two blog series, Tony Akers writes on how to improve the end-user reporting of phishing attacks and how to deploy the correct tools.

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Managing Outlook Cached Mode and OST File Sizes

Nathan O'Bryan — Wed, 30 May 2018 10:22:00 +0000

How to manage Outlook cached mode settings and OST file sizes using Group Policy and registry settings to improve performance and the end user experience.

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You Might Want to Turn Off Outlook Sync of My Tasks in Microsoft Planner

Paul Cunningham — Tue, 08 May 2018 14:43:05 +0000

Synchronizing Microsoft Planner tasks with Outlook is now available as iCalendar integration. But should you turn it off?

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Solving the Email Signature Problem for Exchange Mailbox Users

Paul Cunningham — Thu, 15 Mar 2018 23:58:35 +0000

Want better email signature controls in Exchange Server and Exchange Online? Add your vote to the UserVoice, and show Microsoft how much demand there is for this feature.

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Microsoft is Changing the Groups Behavior to Stop Senders Receiving a Copy of Their Own Message

Paul Cunningham — Mon, 27 Feb 2017 12:33:38 +0000

Office 365 Groups will no longer send a copy of each message to the sender, even if the sender has subscribed to receive copies of emails sent to the Group.

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