Contemplating Commsverse
Paul Robichaux provides insights from the independent Microsoft Teams conference, Commsverse, that just took place last week at Mercedez-Benz World outside of London.
September 21, 2021
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For Heaven’s Sake, Just Turn on MFA Already
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!
August 12, 2021
Office 365 10-Year Anniversary Series: The Arrival of Cloud Voice
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.
June 29, 2021
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Taming Teams Notifications
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.
June 4, 2021
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Three Ways to Improve Meetings in Teams (Which You Can’t Have) And One Which Might Maybe Help a Little (Which You Can)
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.
May 10, 2021
Hafnium Exchange Server Exploits: Q & A with Exchange and Security Experts
Microsoft Exchange and security experts answer the top seven questions around compromise and mitigation for the HAFNIUM Exchange Server 2010, 2013, 2016, and 2019 exploits. The Q&A was pulled from an intense, hour-long panel discussion that covers this topic in-depth.
March 19, 2021
End to End Encryption (E2EE) in Microsoft Teams—What Does It Mean To You?
Microsoft announced at Ignite in March 2021 the coming availability of end-to-end encryption (E2EE) for Teams, starting with 1:1 Teams calls. Learn what this means to you and your users.
March 9, 2021
Microsoft Announces Viva, a New “Employee Engagement” Suite—What Does It Mean to You?
Read Microsoft MVP Paul Robichaux's take on Viva, Microsoft's new "Employee Engagement" suite, and what it means for you.
February 5, 2021
Basic network monitoring for Office 365
In this article, MVP and Co-Chief Editor, Paul Robichaux, writes about basic network monitoring for Office 365.
November 4, 2020
Welcoming Paul Robichaux to the Practical 365 Team
Practical 365 welcomes new Co-Chief Editor, Microsoft MVP Paul Robichaux to the team. Find out more about Paul in this blog.
September 15, 2020
How To Improve Office 365 User Adoption Rates
If you followed the news from Ignite this year, you probably noticed one of the key areas Microsoft is focusing on is increasing Office 365 user adoption.
November 19, 2019
Bandwidth Pyramid Block
MVP Paul Robichaux discusses bandwith and choosing the right way to communicate when starting your next conversation in your organization or at home.
May 15, 2019