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As you know, you can check you sign-in activities using the My Sign-Ins portal (https://mysignins.microsoft.com/).

If you are using Microsoft Office 365 apps (aka Office) and have the ‘Coming soon’ (see https://t.co/1ZuhCEEkFk) enabled, you can turn on now an updated interface which is matching the one on the web.

The Office 365 apps (version 2011 build 13426 or later) can now apply your system theme.

Introduction

COVID-19 has caused the entire world to rethink the way we work; whether it is at the office, in an open field such as for construction or mining, or working from home (to name a few). With the latter, the lack of in-person face-to-face interaction has reciprocally increased our online meeting time by 500%!! (source: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/blog/2020/03/05/our-commitment-to-customers-during-covid-19/).  In other words, if you spent 30 minutes per day in a meeting pre-COVID, you are more likely to spend about 2.5 hrs today on average. In addition, if you spread these 30 minute slots throughout the day and add other types of distraction such as phone calls, deliveries, preparing lunch or simply making yourself a snack, you might find yourself in a situation where you simply cannot focus on anything specific; especially when studies show it takes up to 20 minutes to recall where you’ve left off before being distracted. Cue right (purposely) Microsoft Outlook Insights!

We all know the pain of having multiple Outlook windows opened (email, draft, reminders…) and loosing them when Outlook restart for various reasons (application crash, user action…)

By now you may already know Microsoft Forms and Microsoft Forms Pro, the survey/pool service from Office 365.

This is a reminder as this has been announced in September 2019 (https://www.microsoft.com/microsoft-365/blog/2017/04/20/office-365-proplus-updates/), Office 2013 clients will no longer be supported to access Office 365 services (Exchange Online, SharePoint Online or OneDrive for Business) starting October 13th 2020.

If you use Outlook on Windows 10 and have notifications enabled (for at least Outlook), you will now have the possibility to quickly delete, flag or dismiss the message directly from the notification.

By now, you are aware of the @mention feature in Outlook, allowing you to mention/tag a person or a group in the body of your email while also adding it in the TO field.

As you know, content sharing in SharePoint Online and OneDrive for Business is managed by policies at the tenant level and then at the site level by administrators.