You can soon set up your ‘Out of Office’ from within the Teams Mobile App itself on iOS and Android. That is today’s #MicrosoftCloudQuickFix !!!
Previously you could only set your ‘Out of Office’ using the Teams Desktop / Web client or switch over to the Outlook Mobile App. With this capability users can now make this change on the go within the Teams Mobile App itself with configuration found under the same menu to set your availability status!
Screenshots of Teams Mobile Out-of-Office configuration
This is available in both the iOS and Android version of the Teams Mobile App. As always make sure your regularly updating your mobile app to have the latest version to get access!
This capability is already being deployed worldwide with an expected completion by late October 2023.
Today’s #MicrosoftQuickFix is that Microsoft has enabled in Microsoft Defender for Office 365 intra-organizational email protection by default for high-confidence phishing messages containing malicious or spam-based URLs!
This new feature in the Windows Defender for Office 365 Anti-spam policy controls whether spam filtering and the corresponding selected action for the spam verdict is applied to internal messages (email sent between users in your Exchange Online organization).
The deployment of this feature is complete for intra-organizational messages with the default value of High confidence phishing messages selected which will quarantine the message. This feature is available in all Microsoft Tenants worldwide!
If you don’t want to utilize this feature on intra-organizational messages it can be disabled by modifying the Anti-spam Policy setting for ‘Intra-Organizational messages to take action on’ to none.
You can also modify the Anti-spam Policy setting to apply to other spam filter verdicts.
This one is personally topical – Microsoft is about to rollout improvements to meeting scheduling in Outlook for users collaborating across multiple time zones and that is today’s #MicrosoftCloudQuickFix !
Coordinating the scheduling of meetings across different time zones can be a challenge. Figuring out which attendee is in which time zone, east coast end of day, west coast start time, and what about if some attendees are located in between! This can make for a scheduling nightmare.
With this new feature when scheduling a meeting with attendees from different time zones a Tool Tip will be displayed to the organizer and the Scheduling Assistant will provide time zone information for each attendee. Organizers can quickly identify suitable meeting times that work for everyone!
This feature is currently only available thru Outlook on the Web. Deployment has begun and is to be completed by late October 2023 and will be available in all Microsoft Tenants worldwide!
For more information see Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 170783
Your Microsoft Teams users will soon have a more reliable calendaring experience. That is today’s #MicrosoftCloudQuickFix !
This update is intended to streamline calendar management helping users keep track of their schedules consistently across Outlook and Teams.
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Contained within Microsoft 365 Roadmap ID 138248 is an update where #Microsoft will enable calendar updates made in Outlook to be available in near-real time in your #MicrosoftTeams calendar in the Desktop and Web versions of Teams and vice-versa.
This feature has begun rolling out in September 2023 with a completion by mid-October and will be available Worldwide!
Today’s #MicrosoftQuickFix is that the new #MicrosoftTeams meeting add-in for Microsoft Outlook now supports the ability to switch between multiple tenants and accounts to schedule Teams meetings. This a long awaited capability. Have you ever needed another reason to switch to the New Microsoft Teams Client!!!
If the user has the new Microsoft Teams client installed, the user will have the ability to switch between their tenants or accounts to schedule a Teams meeting through add-in in Microsoft Outlook.
Now their are some limitations namely:
This capability isn’t supported in Outlook Web or Outlook Mac
The account selected in the Teams meeting add-in dropdown in Microsoft Outlook must match one of the signed-in accounts in Teams before a meeting can be scheduled.
The account selected in the Teams meeting add-in dropdown in Microsoft Outlook must match the signed-in accounts in Teams before the organizer or the co-organizer/s can access that Teams meeting options.
If the user has multiple scheduling windows opened in Microsoft Outlook, it will honor the account selected in the Teams meeting.
If the user accidentally used the wrong account to schedule the Teams meeting they must use Don’t Host Online ribbon option to remove the existing meeting information. Simply deleting the information will result in a broken meeting scheduling experience.
This feature is available today as part of the the New Microsoft Teams Client!
Last week’s Microsoft Build was awe-inspiring but what’s next? Today’s #MicrosoftCloudQuickFix is that registration is open for the next premium immersion event from #Microsoft called Microsoft Inspire!
Microsoft Inspire is an annual event organized by Microsoft and serves as a platform for Microsoft to connect with its partner ecosystem, share the company’s vision, and provide insights into its product roadmap.
The event offers attendees the opportunity to engage in networking, attend keynote presentations, participate in breakout sessions, and explore the latest innovations and technologies showcased by Microsoft and its partners.
At Microsoft Inspire, attendees can gain valuable knowledge about Microsoft’s latest products, services, and solutions. They can also learn about industry trends, best practices, and strategies to enhance their businesses. At last years event there was a heavy focus on security. I would suspect this years will be heavily focused on AI offerings.
Microsoft Inspire is an important event for Microsoft and its partners, serving as a platform for knowledge sharing, collaboration, and building strong relationships. It plays a significant role in shaping the future of Microsoft’s partner ecosystem and driving innovation in the technology industry.
Though partner centric Microsoft Inspire can be a valuable source of information for customers and I would highly recommend they attend to gain visibility into Microsoft’s vision and product roadmap!
Today’s #MicrosoftCloudQuickFix – #MSBuild may be over 😥 but the Microsoft Ignite Cloud Skill Challenge – Microsoft Build Edition is now open until June 20, 2023!
There are 8 challenges to choose from and once you complete a challenge you choose you earn a 𝗳𝗿𝗲𝗲 exam credit (my favorite price) for a Microsoft Certification exam on your #MicrosoftLearning account!!!
Those of you who know me know I am pretty close to a dollar. With that today’s #MicrosoftCloudQuickFix is how you can get a 50% discount off the cost of a Microsoft certification exam!!!
#MicrosoftLearn is the place to go for all the latest training direct from #Microsoft. It is a free online training platform that provides hands-on, interactive learning for products and services within the #Microsoft ecosystem.
The content is curated specifically for the self-starting #LearnItAll an Information Technology Professionals strives to be. The learning is self-paced and available to you anywhere on any device. There you can ‘build the skills that open doors’.
I have spent hours utilizing Microsoft Learn to ‘skill-up’ on #MicrosoftCloud technologies and utilize it as one of my primary resources for Microsoft certification studies.
One of my favorite ways to absorb this content for my learning style is using the Microsoft Cloud Skills Challenge. It’s a fun, free, and interactive program that provides you with access to Microsoft resources and will help you skill-up on Microsoft Cloud Technologies via a gamified experience utilizing Microsoft Learn content!
There are several learning paths to choose from and once you complete the challenge you select within the 30-day window you will earn a 50% discount voucher toward the cost of a Microsoft certification exam!!!
Today’s #MicrosoftQuickFix is that #Microsoft will soon begin sending DMARC Aggregate Reports as part of the #DMARC standard and as the owner of a domain you can request reports be sent to wherever your DMARC DNS record RUA setting points to. Is it time to revisit your #Microsoft365 domains DMARC, DKIM and SPF security settings?
Phishing attacks are getting more sophisticated and most organizations have implemented email security measures like SPF (Sender Policy Framework) and DKIM (DomainKeys Identified Mail) to help mitigate these risks.
Unfortunately SPF and DKIM alone do not provide 100% protection against email attacks or nefarious hackers spoofing a companies domain regardless of SPF and DKIM implementation.
DMARC (Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting) works with SPF and DKIM to authenticate your mail senders. With a DMARC record configured you’ll get reports that provide the status of your email authentication so you can improve it if needed. This helps you detect malicious emails that claim to be from your domain.
Note: DMARC reports are in XML format and contain a lot of technical data. There are several DMARC report analyzer tools available as well as third-party vendors offering DMARC reporting capabilities.
Using DMARC with SPF and DKIM gives organizations more protection against spoofing and phishing of email. DMARC also helps receiving mail systems decide what to do with messages from your domain that fail SPF or DKIM checks thru the actionable DMARC policy you specify.
DMARC Aggregate Reports will be available for all Exchange Online Protection customers beginning in late February 2023 with expected rollout to complete in late March 2023.
For more information about DMARC in Microsoft 365 see:
Have you every accidently sent an email that wasn’t ready? Sent it to the wrong person? Something you regret? Rage quit? 🤨 Any combination of the above but to a Distribution List? Or are you an Exchange Admin watching this unfold knowing what comes next… Well Microsoft is FINALLY fixing the Message Recall feature and that is today’s #MicrosoftCloudQuickFix !
For several years #Microsoft has been working on a new cloud-based Message Recall feature for Exchange Online. This week it was announced that it is finally ready and has begun rolling out to all #Microsoft365 tenants – Still need a business case for migration to #ExchangeOnline ?
The classic #MessageRecall feature was hit-and-miss at best. It was client-based requiring the recipient to have Outlook for Windows open, clunky, didn’t work if the message had been read or moved, filled the requestors mailbox with recall status email notifications, and had a success rate of about 50%.
The new Message Recall feature has a greater then 90% success rate, occurs within the Exchange Online mailbox and is no longer client based, is fast regardless of how many recipients got the message due to scale of cloud resources in Exchange Online, provides a new single status report per recalled message, and can even recall read or moved messages!
After a Message Recall request is executed the next time the recipient’s email client syncs, regardless of client now, with their Exchange Online mailbox the message should be gone. Now you can breath again…
See a feature comparison below:
Capability
Classic Message Recall
New Message Recall
Average recall success rate
40%
> 90%
Recalls are performed in the cloud
No
Yes
Recipients can use any email client to be eligible for recalls
No
Yes
Can recall read messages
No
Yes
Can recall messages from sub-folders (except Draft and Sent Items by design)
No
Yes
Single recall status report for all recipients
No
Yes
Note: Message Recall has always only been available if both you and the recipient are in the same email organization. You can not recall messages sent outside to other companies, even if they use Microsoft products, or to Gmail, Hotmail, etc.
For more information about Message Recall or how to perform one see:
