Connected accounts are being deprecated in Office 365

The Connected accounts feature basically works as an email client, which connects to and fetches messages from Gmail, Yahoo or any other IMAP/POP account. While Connected accounts have certainly never been the most popular feature, they were useful for scenarios where you wanted to keep messages from all your email …

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Bulk disable specific services via the Azure AD PowerShell module

When it comes to bulk operations for Office 365 licenses, for years I have been recommending the approach used by Tino Donderwinkel, a Microsoft PFE. You can find a sample script over at his blog, and the reason why I’m recommending is the way it handles any individually enabled/disabled services in a given SKU. Now, …

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Role Group membership is now exposed in Outlook’s Address book cards

If you are using Office 365/Exchange Online, you might have noticed that the group membership tab (“Member of”) of the Address Book entry for a particular user now exposes the Role Groups said used is a member of. In other words, you might be seeing the following: The highlighted entries …

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Recent improvements with handling of Group and Inactive mailboxes for ExO PowerShell cmdlets

While Office 365 change management is slowly getting better in terms of notifying the customers about any new or improved features, it’s not uncommon for some minor changes to still go under the radar. In this article, we will go over few such recent improvements, which will certainly make the …

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Azure AD directory settings templates expanded to cover password protection, object names and more

Learn how to use PowerShell to work with Azure AD’s directory settings templates objects, which control functionalities such as Guest access for Groups, or password protection settings. …

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