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Lack of Migration Tools Can Cause Problems Moving to Teams

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Microsoft Teams is popular now, but if you decide to use it, how can you move content from other applications to Teams. Getting email into Teams can be done individually and moving documents into SharePoint is straightforward, but moving content from other chat platforms is problematic because of the lack of a migration API.

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Microsoft Brings Advanced Threat Protection to SharePoint Online

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Microsoft launched Advanced Threat Protection for SharePoint Online, OneDrive for Business, and Teams on December 5. It’s good to have extra anti-malware capabilities, but ATP requires Office 365 E5 or an extra add-on, so it might be out of the reach of some tenants. And it’s all about SharePoint – Teams is just there because Teams can store documents.

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Protecting Office 365 Documents with Conditional Access Policies

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Azure Conditional Access policies can be used with Azure Information Protection (AIP) to secure protected documents against unauthorized access. If you have already decided to use AIP as part of your Office 365 data protection strategy, adding a conditional access policy is a quick way to frustrate people who try to access documents when they shouldn’t.

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Measuring the Impact of Teams on Email Traffic

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Email or Teams It is natural that when someone like me who has been involved with email for so long argues a case like “Teams won’t replace email,” people will say “well, he would say that, wouldn’t he.” After all, we all show some form of personal bias in the technology choices we make. But […]

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Teams Won’t Replace Email but It Can Reduce Email Traffic

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Some observers say that Teams will replace email. Well, Teams won’t because email still has so many advantages over what Teams offers. But Teams has its own capabilities that will lead it to take some of the traffic currently carried by email. Because of its internal focus, the traffic that moves to Teams is in-house chats, and Teams is a good place for those conversations to be.

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Managing GDPR with Teams, Planner, and Compliance Manager

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Microsoft’s Compliance Manager is intended to help cloud tenants cope with regulations like ISO 27001 and GDPR. The Compliance Manager has a nice dashboard, but it is passive and offers very weak options in terms of organizing the work needed to achieve compliance. But Office 365 has Planner and Teams, and it is easy to create the necessary collaboration structure to allow people to work on GDPR controls.

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European SharePoint Conference Swings into Dublin

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The European SharePoint Conference took place in Dublin, Ireland this week. The SharePoint content was top-notch and the conference ran smoothly, but I was a little disappointed at the relative lack of Office 365 coverage despite the claim made in the conference moniker.

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Checking Office 365 Group Membership with Azure AD Access Reviews

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Access Review for Group

A new premium Azure Active Directory feature allows you to force group owners to certify that external members should have continued access. Given that Office 365 Groups and Microsoft Teams now both support guest users, it is wise to check on who can access what from time to time. Whether you will want to pay extra for such a feature is quite another matter!

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Why the PowerShell Module for Teams is Critically Flawed

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Teams PowerShell

Microsoft has released a beta version of the Teams PowerShell module. The only problem is that the module is not very good. In fact, the module is very disappointing because it does not contain the cmdlets that an Office 365 administrator might except to automate operations around Teams. Maybe the 1.0 release will be better. We can only hope!

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Big Brother Watches Your Email with Office 365 Supervision Policies

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Office 365 Supervision Policy 6

Office 365 includes supervision policies to allow tenants to monitor email traffic between selected groups to ensure that they comply with regulations. Supervision policies are easy to set up, but be careful about the workload involved in processing the captured email.

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