Microsoft removes the Team’s and Manager’s Calendar Groups from Outlook

In their never-ending quest to dumb down Outlook’s interface, the folks at Microsoft has decided to get rid of yet another feature. This time around, the impacted functionalities are the Team’s and Manager’s Calendar Groups in Outlook, or in other words the ability to quickly access all your direct reports’ or …

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Permanently disable a mailbox in Office 365

One of the differences between on-premises Exchange and Exchange Online is the way user mailbox objects are provisioned, or de-provisioned. In the on-premises world, this is of course dependent on the underlying AD, but as long as you have the necessary permissions you can provision a new user, along with …

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Temporary glitch in the way Exchange Online object identities were returned

The new year greeted us with an interesting glitch, or intentional change, with the way Exchange Online PowerShell displays some properties. As first reported in this TechNet forums thread, suddenly we were seeing different values for properties such as the Retention policy, all of them being prefixed by the tenant …

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Preventing users from attaching files to messages via OWA

This seems like a relatively new addition to the service, but it is now possible to block users from attaching files when composing messages in OWA. To set those restrictions, you will need to use the OWA mailbox policy cmdlets, and toggle the value of the ClassicAttachmentsEnabled parameter. Here’s an example: …

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