Paul Robichaux, Author at Practical 365

About Paul Robichaux

Paul Robichaux, an Office Servers and Services MVP since 2002, leads product development for the Microsoft Platform Management group at Quest, the world leader in Office 365 migration, automation, reporting, and security products. Paul's unique background includes stints writing Space Shuttle payload software in FORTRAN, developing cryptographic software for the US National Security Agency, helping giant companies deploy Office 365 to their worldwide users, and writing about and presenting on Microsoft’s software and server products. Paul’s an avid (but slow) triathlete, an instrument-rated private pilot, and an occasional blogger (at http://www.paulrobichaux.com) and Tweeter (@paulrobichaux).

Contemplating Commsverse

September 21, 2021 by Paul Robichaux Leave a Comment

Paul Robichaux provides insights from the independent Microsoft Teams conference, Commsverse, that just took place last week at Mercedez-Benz World outside of London.

For Heaven’s Sake, Just Turn on MFA Already

August 12, 2021 by Paul Robichaux 1 Comment

Microsoft has recently made major strides to improve the capability and resiliency of multi-factor authentication in Azure AD; however, this article highlights the four practical ways in which you can take advantage of MFA in your Microsoft 365 estate, and just turn the darn thing on already!

Office 365 10-Year Anniversary Series: The Arrival of Cloud Voice

June 29, 2021 by Paul Robichaux Leave a Comment

Microsoft MVP Paul Robichaux shares his personal experience getting to the cloud with Office 365 after the Exchange Labs dogfood program; Lync and SfB, and the eventual advent of Teams.

Taming Teams Notifications

June 4, 2021 by Paul Robichaux Leave a Comment

There are several areas where Microsoft could improve the way Teams handles out-of-office and away-from-work scenarios. Are the default “quiet hours” reasonable? Should there be a global setting for quiet hours or do-not-disturb? While there may be good reasons to leave some of these as a tenant-level settings, you don’t want to forget about the extra steps you must take to truly escape from Teams for a bit.

Three Ways to Improve Meetings in Teams (Which You Can’t Have) And One Which Might Maybe Help a Little (Which You Can)

May 10, 2021 by Paul Robichaux 2 Comments

Having Teams meeting fatigue? Could the meeting have been an email instead? In his latest blog Paul Robichaux explores some tongue-in-cheek options for better regulation of Teams meetings, while also proposing a realistic solution to efficiently manage your time, your Teams meetings, and your sanity.