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Tony Redmond has written thousands of articles about Microsoft technology since 1996. He covers Office 365 and associated technologies for Petri.com and is also the lead author for the Office 365 for IT Pros eBook, updated monthly to keep pace with change in the cloud.

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Exiting Office 365 with Your Encrypted Messages and Documents

The Azure Information Protection team recently published an interesting post about making a “cloud exit.” In other words, how to move your encrypted data out of a cloud service like Office 365. As it turns out, this is feasible if you plan. But how many organizations have even thought about how they might decrypt protected content?

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Slack Uploads from Outlook and Other Office Integrations

Slack released some integrations for Office (365) on April 9. I took a look and discovered some interesting things about how the Outlook add-in for Slack works (and doesn’t work sometimes). If you use Slack, you’ll probably be interested in a tighter connection between it and Office, but if you’re invested in the Office 365 ecosystem, Teams is a better choice.

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Teams Supports Office 365 Data Loss Prevention Policies

Microsoft Teams supports Office 365 Data Loss Prevention (DLP) policies, which means that you can check for the sharing of sensitive data like credit card or passport numbers in personal chats or channel conversations. Quite why someone would want to share their credit card number with someone else in a chat is beyond me, but there’s no accounting for human taste.

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Teams and Kaizala = Teams+?

On April 4, Microsoft announced that Kaizala, their mobile chat application, is now available to all Office 365 commercial customers and will be integrating with Teams. On the surface, the two applications target very different user types: Teams takes care of corporate users with Office 365 licenses while Kaizala uses phone numbers as identities. We don’t know how the two will meld, but the process will be interesting.

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Office Apps to Get Native Support for Office 365 Sensitivity Labels

Microsoft says that the Office desktop Windows apps will have native support for Office 365 sensitivity labels in the second half of 2019. Native support means that users won’t need to install the Azure Information Protection (AIP) client to apply labels. However, if they want to continue using the AIP client (because it is more functional), they need to deploy a system registry update.

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[Sponsored] Managing Teams Deployments for Better Outcomes

Teams is on a roll at present with the number of organizations using the app accelerating past 500,000. Good planning and forethought help enormously to ensure the success of any deployment and Teams is no different. Whether you’re running a migration from Skype for Business Online or a greenfield deployment, thinking before deploying is always a good thing to do.

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How Retention Impacts Office 365 Storage

Office 365 retention policies help organizations keep information for as long as needed. But retention consumes storage. This isn’t a problem for Exchange Online, but it is for SharePoint Online, because files held in the Preservation Hold Library are charged against the tenant storage quota. This isn’t a reason to not use retention policies, but you should be careful.

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Microsoft Responds to Dutch DPIA with Privacy Control for Office ProPlus

Microsoft has announced that version 1904 of Office ProPlus (click to run) for Windows includes new privacy controls to allow organizations limit the data sent back by the Office apps. There’s no word about when they will deliver similar controls for Office for Mac, Office mobile, and the Office 365 server apps. Privacy is a real challenge in a world where cloud apps gather so much telemetry to measure performance, reliability, and other aspects, but it’s good that organizations will now be able to control how much they share with Microsoft.

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Office 365 Supervision Policies Now Include Teams

Good news for those who like to know what’s going on in email: Office 365 supervision policies now support Teams personal chats and channel conversations in addition to email. And you can now use sensitive data types to find communications worth reading. Seriously, supervision policies are important to a certain section of the market, so it’s good that Teams messages now surface for review.

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Stick or Stay: Should I Upgrade to Exchange 2019?

Exchange 2019 has been around for six months. It’s a good time to consider if on-premises organizations should upgrade or stick with the version of Exchange they run today. Exchange 2019 is a solid release, even if Microsoft’s engineering efforts are largely focused on the cloud these days. Of course, moving to Exchange Online is an option too, but perhaps not for the dedicated on-premises deployments.

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