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Slack and Teams: Complaint is Weak and Filled with Leading Statements

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Microsoft Launches Workspaces, Then Pauses for Reflection

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Microsoft dodged the opportunity to fire a bullet into their own foot when they pulled back plans to launch “workspaces” in Exchange Online. Announced on Monday and withdrawn on Tuesday, Workspaces are a new form of room mailboxes, the difference being that room mailboxes are used to reserve traditional conference rooms while workspaces seem to […]

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Sensitivity Labels Exert More Control Over SharePoint Online Sites

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Expanding the Control of Sensitivity Labels In a Teams live event to brief customers on July 14, Microsoft revealed details of how they plan to evolve the container settings in sensitivity labels to exert more control over SharePoint Online sites. Microsoft also plans to improve the flow of creating new sensitivity labels to create “label […]

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The Problem with Guest Accounts (Going Outside Your Tenant)

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Listing the tenants where a user has a guest account
Listing the tenants where a user has a guest account

Good Visibility Over Guest Activity for Host Office 365 Tenants From a host tenant perspective, Microsoft has done a great job with Azure B2B Collaboration, the foundation for guest user access for applications like Teams and Planner. External people can be invited to join groups and teams or share documents and folders (including now through […]

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What the Teams Meeting Enhancements Mean to the Enterprise

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Large gallery view shows 49 people in a Teams meeting (image credit: Microsoft)
Large gallery view shows 49 people in a Teams meeting (image credit: Microsoft)

Microsoft has a very competent PR engine that is skilled at pumping news out that’s designed to thrill and excite people. We saw this happening in full flood on July 8 when Microsoft announced a set of improvements for Teams meetings. Now that the fuss surrounding the announcements has calmed down, it’s time to take […]

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Working with Planner Data Through the Graph

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Viewing plan information with Out-GridView
Viewing plan information with Out-GridView

PowerShell has its Limitations I like using PowerShell to work with Office 365 data, but sometimes PowerShell isn’t the right tool. It might be too slow, or a PowerShell cmdlet isn’t available to work with some data. Planner is a good example. People have asked about reporting the plans available to a user or the […]

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Exchange Online and Teams Get Important PowerShell Updates

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Teams Preview module 1.1.3 in the PowerShell Gallery
Teams Preview module 1.1.3 in the PowerShell Gallery

PowerShell Critical for Office 365 Although the Microsoft Graph is gaining popularity as the method for automating administrative processes for Office 365 workloads, there’s no doubt that PowerShell remains the most common automation tool. The two approaches can be mixed to create solutions when neither is quite good enough and Microsoft is still working on […]

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Teams 7×7 Gallery View for Meetings Goes to Preview

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Teams large gallery view
Teams large gallery view

The Joy of Seeing Everyone In June, Brad discussed the need for Teams to match the 7 x 7 grid view supported by Zoom. It’s a competitive need not to be perceived as a laggard in the video conferencing space at a time when home working makes remote conferences a necessity. Simply put, it’s cool […]

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Teams at Home Might Not Convince Potential Users

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A user receives an invitation to join Teams at Home
A user receives an invitation to join Teams at Home

Melding Teams at Work with Your Personal Life On June 22, Microsoft launched the preview of the much-awaited consumer iteration of Teams, which you can access through the Teams iOS and Android apps. Microsoft’s hope is that the millions of people who use Teams at work will make the leap to embrace Teams for their […]

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Native Mode Yammer Networks Generate Office 365 Compliance Records

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A post to a Yammer community

Slow Progress Towards Office 365 Compliance and Data Governance For years, I have been mildly to harshly critical of Yammer’s inability to march in the same step as the rest of Office 365, particularly in data governance and compliance. Much has been promised, but the delivery has been slow, even in Microsoft’s self-proclaimed “Year of […]

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