Tag Archives: Office 365

Office365 violates GDPR in schools

Posted on 2019-07-15 by guenni

[German]The Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information in the German state Hesse, declaring that Windows 10 and Office 365 is not compliant with the GDPR for use in schools. Advertising

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Privacy: Microsoft with Windows 10/Office 365 under pressure

Posted on 2019-03-05 by guenni

[German]Microsoft comes again under pressure in the USA and Germany due to privacy concerns about Windows 10 and Office 365. The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has launched a “Fix It Already!” campaign, in which Microsoft also appears with Windows 10. … Continue reading →

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Microsoft 365 is coming for consumers

Posted on 2019-01-20 by guenni

Microsoft’s CEO Satya Nadella indicated last week in an interview with journalists that Microsoft 365 will also be available for consumers (i.e. outside corporate environments). Advertising

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An undocumented Office 365 REST api for Outlook activities

Posted on 2018-07-09 by guenni

[German]It’s an interesting discovery for administrators. Microsoft Office 365 has an undocumented API that allows administrators to read the activities of Outlook email accounts. Advertising

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Office 365: Zero-Font bypassing weakens email security

Posted on 2018-06-20 by guenni

[German]Cyber criminals are currently using a well-known zero-font bypassing technology to trick Office 365’s Microsoft security filters on emails and smuggle spam onto systems. Advertising

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PSA: EOL for TLS 1.0/1.1 support in Intune and Office 365

Posted on 2018-06-06 by guenni

[German]Short information for administrators managing Windows systems with Microsoft’s Intune. Microsoft is phasing out support for TLS 1.0 and TLS 1.1 (for security reasons) in the fall of 2018. Home and end users are not affected by this change, and … Continue reading →

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Office 365 Home/Personal: better ransomware protection

Posted on 2018-04-06 by guenni

Microsoft promises its private Office 365 Home and Personal subscribers enhanced ransomware protection by providing a file recovery feature on OneDrive. Outlook.com also introduces additional email protection features. Microsoft announces details about its plans for advanced protection for Office 365 … Continue reading →

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Expiring Links for OneDrive with Office 365 subscription

Posted on 2017-05-20 by guenni

Microsoft has added quietly a new feature to OneDrive. Sharing files allows now to set an expiring date for the shared links. But this feature is only available for OneDrive for Business. Advertising

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Office 365 apps comes to Windows Store

Posted on 2017-05-02 by guenni

Microsoft has announced on it’s #MicrosoftEDU event, that it has finished its Microsoft Office 365 apps and will bring it ‘soon’ to the Windows Store. This will allow Windows 10 S devices to install Office 365 apps (as full desktop … Continue reading →

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Pitfall: Free Office 365 Personal or University subscription

Posted on 2015-01-09 by guenni

Do you use a Office 365 Home subscription? It grants you, to use Office on multiple computers. Glad, you bought a new Windows 8.1 machine with a free one years Office 365 Personal (or University) subcription? Take care, what you … Continue reading →

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