A minimum viable version of a Contact picker appears in the new OWA experience

I’ve covered Microsoft’s journey with respect to the new OWA experience in several articles here and over at Practical 365. While the overall impression is a positive one, the lack of some features left a stain on the otherwise polished new version. One of the biggest such missing features was …

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Did you know: NDR messages and Group mailboxes

Here’s a fun fact I didn’t know about – apparently any NDR messages addressed to Office 365 Groups are being automatically deleted. But not before they are actually delivered to subscribers of the Group. Let’s demonstrate this with an example. Select any Office 365 Group in the tenant, then grant …

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Auditing and management improvements for Office 365 Groups

It took Microsoft few years and several back-and-forth iterations, but we can finally manage Office 365 Groups mailboxes via the *-Mailbox cmdlets. Well, I suppose the correct way to formulate this is “we can finally manage the mailbox settings of an Office 365 Group via the Exchange Online mailbox cmdlets”, …

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Microsoft ZAPs Teams notification emails

An interesting incident occurred yesterday in Microsoft land – Teams notification emails suddenly started appearing as containing malware. More specifically, few of the images embedded in the message body were being detected as malicious and replaced by the ZAP feature. A sample message is shown below: As you can see, …

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