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The Practical 365 Weekly Update: S2, Ep 11 – Talking Groups, Teams audio, Exchange admin, and Joel Oleson joins us for a deep-dive on SharePoint Syntex

The Practical 365 Weekly Update: S2, Ep 11 – Talking Groups, Teams audio, Exchange admin, and Joel Oleson joins us for a deep-dive on SharePoint Syntex

In this episode of the Practical 365 podcast, Paul and Steve are joined by Joel Oleson to talk about SharePoint Syntex. With the past couple of weeks being slow for Microsoft announcements, no doubt due to Ignite being around the corner and a bonanza of releases at the beginning of Feb, we focus on the most interesting news for Microsoft 365 and Teams features that have arrived on the roadmap.

February 20, 2021
Talking to Microsoft About Group Sprawl 2 Comments

Talking to Microsoft About Group Sprawl

Microsoft currently offers people the opportunity to talk to them about the challenges of managing Microsoft 365 Groups. I spoke to the Groups developers on February 18 and brought five requests to the table from dealing with group creation to cleaning up group debris.

February 19, 2021
Microsoft Adjusts Switchover Plan for Teams Meeting Recordings 2 Comments

Microsoft Adjusts Switchover Plan for Teams Meeting Recordings

Microsoft announced a revised plan to switchover storage of Teams meeting recordings from Stream to OneDrive for Business. The July 2021 switchover will happen for all tenants. In some respects that's a good time of year for a change like this because everyone will be on vacation and much too busy to join and record Teams meetings. At least, that's the plan. What could go wrong?

February 18, 2021
Microsoft Wants to Talk About Group Sprawl (Finally)

Microsoft Wants to Talk About Group Sprawl (Finally)

Nearly seven years after the introduction of Office 365 Groups, Microsoft has finally admitted that tenants might just have a problem with "group sprawl." In other words, tenants have too many underused or unused groups because the groups have been created without oversight and not managed thereafter. Microsoft wants to discuss the problem with tenant administrators. Practical365.com thinks this is a great idea and strongly supports the initiative to get a handle on group sprawl once and for all.

February 17, 2021
How the new wave of libraries from Microsoft 365 PnP will change the way you modernize SharePoint 3 Comments

How the new wave of libraries from Microsoft 365 PnP will change the way you modernize SharePoint

This blog delves into the new wave of libraries that will support cross-platform development; introduces support for Microsoft .NET Standard 2.0 and Microsoft .NET 5.0.; and more importantly, describes how the new libraries will provide the needed tooling to easily modernize your classic solutions so you can create new modern solutions.

February 5, 2021