After figuring out how to convert a script from using Azure AD licensing cmdlets (due to stop working in June 2022), we move on to create a licensing report for a tenant using cmdlets from the Microsoft Graph SDK for PowerShell. The code is pretty straightforward, but you need to do some up-front work to extract and prepare some input files containing product and service plan codes. Given that Microsoft is increasing its license fees, it’s a good time to report this information…
Introducing the New Microsoft 365 PnP Transformation Framework
The Microsoft 365 Community is introducing a public preview of a new project called “Microsoft 365 PnP Transformation Framework.” The goal of this new project is to help customers and partners to transform existing portals into Microsoft SharePoint Online modern portals.
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.
Why Aren’t You Creating Bots for Microsoft Teams?
Building a bot used to require developer skills – writing complicated code, deploying it to a resource like Azure, and then performing cumbersome configuration steps to ensure it functioned properly. Now, with the Power Virtual Agents (PVA) app for Microsoft Teams, you can create exceptionally powerful chatbots without having to write a single line of code. What’s more, you don’t need direct access to Azure resources to deploy these bots. There’s no reason to not create a bot for your organization today.
Teams Advanced Communications Add-on (Version 2) Ready to Go
After a false start in 2020, Microsoft is coming back with version 2 of the Teams Advanced Communications add-on. The documentation lists four new capabilities. You’ll have to make your mind up whether these features are worth whatever Microsoft asks for in terms of add-on pricing. We probably won’t have that information until the preview phase of the features terminates at the end of 2021. I can’t wait!