Category Archives: Skype for Business

Office 365 Snippets — October 20, 2016

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Some interesting announcements during the last week informed us about Yammer getting better at compliance and a new Office 365 connector. I’m not so hot on the bots, though. In other news, MyAnalytics has an unexplained love for Internet Explorer and the topic of password trimming and the Office 365 maximum password length caused some confusion – at least for one administrator! And some news about an interesting Exchange 20th anniversary video and a VDI collaboration project between VMware and Microsoft for Skype for Business rounds out the week.

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Office 365 Snippets — October 14, 2016

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Ignite is two weeks gone, but there’s still lots of work to reveal all the sessions that I missed. The OneDrive roadmap was one such session, and it included some interesting figures for OneDrive usage. The Grand Exchange on-premises or cloud debate is also online and I also listened to how the dedicated team at Microsoft has lovingly assembled a profanity list for you to use. Finally, some reflections on transforming distribution groups to Office 365 Groups and what this means for mail contacts.

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Yammer and Office 365 Groups Connect

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Yammer and Office 365 take two very different approaches to collaboration, but both exist inside Office 365. Although slow in coming, Microsoft has finally given details about how Yammer and Office 365 Groups will connect to each other. AAD is the glue and SharePoint, notebooks, plans, and calendars are the common functionality available to both types of groups.

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Skype Business Server 2015 Planning Tool Conferencing Values

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Whenever I see a customer going through the Skype for Business Server 2015 Planning tool I always pause for a moment and make sure that there are not changing too many default options in the user profile section; one of those areas in particular is t… Continue reading Skype Business Server 2015 Planning Tool Conferencing Values→

Microsoft’s Blunder: Upgrade to Office 2016 and Lose Skype for Business

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For some customers that use Office 365 or Office 2013 and try to upgrade to Office 2016 apps, they may lose Skype for Business.

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Skype Meetings Offers Free Video Conferencing for SMBs

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Those without a subscription can get a taste of Office 365 capabilities

Microsoft opened up its Skype Meetings software to help convince SMBs on the fence about Office 365 to give it a try. The company announced that starting today, anyone in the U.S. with a “business email address” can use Skype Meetings for free.

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Skype for Business Online with Intune Now Includes Mobile Application Management

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Microsoft has now added Skype for Business to their suite of apps available for mobile app management through Microsoft Intune.

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