I could increase the adoption of various features / apps in Office 365 if I had a URL web link shortener in my tenant.

For example, we recently had some groups working on shared Word documents via OneDrive. In order to help them get up-to-speed, I created a bit.ly link so that they could get directly to the OneDrive where we were all working together.

I am also trying to get people to send links to documents that they maintain versus copies. I have a mnemonic "send a link, helps me think, send a copy, make inbox sloppy."

If the person in charge of the phonelist could sent out a link to http;//mytenant/phonelist the adoption of OneDrive and sharing would be more profound.

First off the help for new-protectionalert -examples should provide more information than "insert example commands for example 1"

Secondly, it does not appear to be possible to edit the default protectionalerts that exist on a new tenant in powershell.

Attempting to get and then set the recipient crashes the powershell as follows.

get-protectionalert | ? {$_.operation -eq 'MailRedirect'} | set-protectionalert -notifyuser noc@nocdomain.com
WARNING: An unexpected error has occurred and a Watson dump is being generated: There is no rule matching identity
'f00ed340-8f84-4eb4-83f3-0075a22b262e\Creation of forwarding/redirect rule'.
There is no rule matching identity 'f00ed340-8f84-4eb4-83f3-0075a22b262e\Creation of forwarding/redirect rule'.
+ CategoryInfo : NotSpecified: (:) [Set-ProtectionAlert], ErrorRuleNotFoundException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : Microsoft.Exchange.Management.Transport.ErrorRuleNotFoundException,Microsoft.Office.Comp
liancePolicy.Tasks.SetProtectionAlert
+ PSComputerName : nam05b.ps.compliance.protection.outlook.com

This was logged in a ticket with Microsoft and the resolution was "it doesn't seem to be possible, add a suggestion to uservoice"

Not being able to script this makes onboarding more of a manual process but also disables the enforcing of this settingsa lot more painful as an administrator has to use a browser/pointy clicky thing to do their work instead of scripting it.

The documentation on policy tips states that the following tips are not currently supported in Outlook 2013 and beyond:

We're currently working on support for showing policy tips for additional conditions. These include:

Any email attachment's content could not be scanned
Any email attachment's content didn't complete scanning
Attachment file extension is
Attachment is password protected
Document property is
Recipient domain is
Sender IP address is

Support for these tips needs to be added, as this makes the policy much less useful (for example, you can't set an "advisory" policy that attachments shouldn't be sent outside the domain as there is no way for someone to override and provide a business case without the policy tip).

SharePoint online and One drive for business is positioned to be used for collaboration with 3rd parties . Features like RMS provide the security for collaboration. In addition, I would like to see if Microsoft can provide the ability to watermark documents ( word, ppt, exchange attachments, excel etc) to maintain the integrity of documents that are shared outside the organization. In particular, if a library or folder is slated for sharing , I would like to have the option to enforce preselected watermarks ( for example :user id, corporate, brand or some id) across all pages of the document to protect and display integrity. Possible work flows
1. On demand : Owner/steward should be able to select a watermark to apply to all documents in folder/library

2. Enforce: based on policy by business rules : watermark is applied on documents in a folder or library based on policy, based on a rms policy

3. Enforce : based on workflow: apply the appropriate watermark based on workflow status 1. when it is being edited
2. when it is published
3. when it is place in specific location
4. based on some event in the workflow

I would really appreciate some attention to this request.

When a firm establishes an Office 365 tenant, they should have the option to allow users to migrate their existing Microsoft Account identities to the company account. This should migrate their existing OneDrive and other consumer data to the corporate account as well as "merge" the identities so access given to other Office 365 tenants' SharePoint and other sites transfers over. Users could also opt not to migrate, in which case they should be required to "vacate" the company domain and migrate to an outlook.com or other consumer branded domain, much like the old Lync/OCS federation process that took place several years ago as the corporate and consumer worlds collided there.

Many industries require the monitoring and retention of communications on sanctioned platforms like teams. Things like the investment advisers act (SEC rule 204-2) require that companies monitor and retain communication channels used by and for the business. Teams is a great communication tool, but lacks the controls to block users from being invited to outside teams (via their corporate sign-on!). Once a user joins another team they are bypassing all of the compliance / retention policies of their corporate tenant where their ID is owned and managed. This is so bizarre! Tenant restrictions do work (blocking sign-in as long as they are behind a proxy), but such a solution is not valid for mobile devices, and therefore there is a gap in retention of communications on the teams platform unless Microsoft creates a way for identity OWNERS to block their identities from being used by third party's within the Azure eco-system. In other words, systems administrators should be allowed to opt-out of the Azure "client-to-client" or "tenant-to-tenant" federation in order to ensure their company is in compliance with retention requirements similar to those stipulated in the investment advisors act. That, or find a way to capture and journal third party teams conversations.