Microsoft has a great evolving story line for empowering Firstline workers, from feature set to security, that is only getting better and better. Here is an update that brings new features for the Firstline workers…Retail/ Manufacturing/Fabrication customers, please take note. I like the SMS sign-in with one-time code, Shared device sign-out, Off-shift access controls for […]
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Licensing for MS Flow and PowerApps changed on October 1st. I was not sure how my clients are going to be affected by the changes and had to do a little digging. These changes were apparently discussed during Inspire 2019, back in July 2019. The licensing page previously displayed the version packaged with Office 365
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Come March 20th, it will be springtime for those of us in the Northern Hemisphere. This is an exciting time with new possibilities and opportunities, and it excites me to bring some of the features in the Microsoft 365 Roadmap to you. The ones shown below were handpicked based upon feedback I get in the
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Recently, I was asked for possible solutions to enforce VPN connection to access Office 365. This seems odd at first, for this is against one of the tenets of Office 365, accessing service from anywhere and on any device. But then there is always a certain use case that needs to be addressed. In
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As a hands-on practice area lead, I get to deliver projects both directly as an architect, and indirectly as an Engagement Manger. In one recent project, one of my Higher Ed clients wanted to setup attribute-based filtering. The matter got escalated to me and I helped the client in setting this up. I documented the
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Hi, hope you enjoyed the last bit of Summer. It was a busy few months with a lot of things happening. There was good bit of updates in the Microsoft 365 world as well. Back in September I had mentioned of a few of the Microsoft 365 interesting and much discussed features among my clients (“Highly
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Here is an announcement from MSFT regarding file template management. Just checked my tenant and I do not see it yet so cannot give a firsthand experience. But going through the blog, it looks like the “Edit New menu” and “Add template” are new. With this, it is possible to add document templates to SharePoint
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Privileged access management in Office 365, would be a pretty good feature for that organization needing to meet compliance requirements. Currently, I am helping a client to understand the security possibility in O365 so they can implement and enable secure sharing through ODFB. This new capability, when available, will basically bring a process/feature used by
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Some Office 365 features that are in dev/testing cycle as of 9/2/2018 that are interesting and quite often discussed with clients: Rich Yammer feeds in SharePoint New web part to add a fully functional native Yammer feed to any modern SharePoint site. Advanced anti-spoofing protection for external domains in Office 365 Extending coverage of Advanced
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SAML, for Security Assertion Markup Language, is an XML based open standard for exchanging AuthN and AuthZ. SAML helps with SSO, Federated and Web. It was perplexing why SharePoint 2013 would not support SAML 2.0 while ADFS 2.0 released few years ago as a download for Windows Server 2008, did support SAML 2.0.Recently I was
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