11 unmissable Practical 365 Posts from 2021
We've had a bumper year on Practical 365. To finish up 2021 here are eleven articles that you can't miss as you break for the holiday season and get ready for 2022.
We've had a bumper year on Practical 365. To finish up 2021 here are eleven articles that you can't miss as you break for the holiday season and get ready for 2022.
In our last episode of the 2021, we've a little Christmas relief (hopefully!) for Exchange admins, more security for the most private of Teams calls - search gets a bit of a boost in Teams, and on the roadmap, we discuss several new features coming to Outlook & Teams that are worth watching.
Teams Connect is coming in early 2022 and there's a lot of buzz about how this will help people work together seamlessly. For larger organizations who need to work together, but can't migrate to a single tenant, could this new functionality enable their plans to migrate?
On the show this week, Steve's having a major case of FOMO whilst Paul's at the European Collaboration Summit, joining us live from the expo floor via Teams. And as well as the news from #CollabSummit, we discuss the latest improvements to Microsoft Lists, Azure AD and Authenticator, Information Barriers, Teams, Compliance and SharePoint.
In this week's Practical 365 podcast it's a bumper show - covering everything post-Microsoft Ignite including what's arrived in Microsoft 365 for you to use right now - plus we firm up some of the dates for new features and changes coming to the suite.
In this week's episode - we're live from Microsoft Ignite 2021 (virtually, for once) talking through the biggest announcements. We'll be updating the episode live as we broadcast too, so be sure to check back after the show to read the best bits.
I promised to share my schedule for Microsoft Ignite 2021, this week 2nd-4th November, so read on to find out my thoughts when I checked out the schedule, and which sessions I chose. And join Paul Robichaux and myself for the Practical 365 Podcast - Live from Ignite. We'll be covering the biggest announcements from the day with full commentary.
In this week's show, myself and Paul meet up at South Coast Summit - a one-day conference in the UK. For the second time in around a month Paul's over in the UK and in this show we walk and talk on a surprisingly sunny October morning, discussing some of the key things we've learnt from the conference, and the benefits of a large independent conference that covers more than just Microsoft 365.
On the show this week, I'm joined by new Microsoft MVP and Practical 365 writer, Mike Weaver as co-host since Paul Robichaux is away this week, and of course Mike does a sterling job providing perspective on the week's news alongside myself. Later in the episode though, Paul dropped in for our chat with Microsoft's Greg Taylor - who is back on the technical side of Microsoft Exchange Online working on solving one of today's most important issues - getting rid of Basic Authentication.
If you've migrated to Exchange Online, make sure you stop publishing your Exchange Servers to the internet. After a standard Hybrid migration, you still might be reliant on Exchange Server and in this article you can find out why and how to move remaining web services to Microsoft 365.
It's often helpful when security researchers like Guardicore shed light on flaws in Microsoft Exchange - however, the Autodiscover protocol isn't flawed in the way they describe. Even though the issue is hard to replicate, it shouldn't distract from the work you need to do to protect your organization from the underlying reason why people want your credentials.
Teams finally arrives in Apple CarPlay touting support for joining meeting and making calls. We road test this new feature to see whether it lives up to expectations.