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The Practical 365 Weekly Update: S2, Ep 12 – Microsoft Lists with Mark Kashman One comment

The Practical 365 Weekly Update: S2, Ep 12 – Microsoft Lists with Mark Kashman

On the Practical 365 weekly update, we're joined by Microsoft's Mark Kashman to talk about Lists. We explore when and how to use it, how to launch it to the business and how you can extend and build applications using it. We begin with a quick primer, discuss who should use it, and explore when Microsoft Lists is the right tool to use instead of other Microsoft applications. We explore use-cases and opportunities and Mark gives us great examples when Lists is the perfect tool, and talks about how he uses Lists day-to-day.

February 26, 2021
Benefits and Gotchas of Running a Public-Facing Multi-Track Virtual Conference in Microsoft Teams

Benefits and Gotchas of Running a Public-Facing Multi-Track Virtual Conference in Microsoft Teams

In 2020, the pandemic forced The Experts Conference (TEC) to switch from an in-person to a virtual event. This article dives into the real practical challenges I faced turning a highly engaging in-person event into a successful virtual one using the Teams platform. I'll explain why we chose and how we used Microsoft Teams, the personnel required to pull this off, including the tenant administrator's critical role, an overview of the technical environment, and several of the significant technical/delivery gotchas we had to live with or workaround.

February 26, 2021
Teams Template Policies Now Available in Admin Center 2 Comments

Teams Template Policies Now Available in Admin Center

The Teams admin center now includes the ability to create template policies to control the set of templates shown to users when creating new teams. It's a small but important change that allows organizations to show only the templates it wants to users instead of being forced to show the set of default templates created by Microsoft. New templates are automatically included in template policies.

February 26, 2021
Recent Improvements Rolling Out to Make Teams Meetings Better 11 Comments

Recent Improvements Rolling Out to Make Teams Meetings Better

Microsoft has released several improvements to Teams meetings to make these gatherings more functional and easier to use. The features range from giving video feeds priority in the gallery view to reactions in meetings to allow participants to show what they really think about a presentation. It's all grist to the mill in the battle for corporate online meeting domination between Teams and Zoom.

February 26, 2021
A New Start at Practical365.com

A New Start at Practical365.com

As some of you might have noticed, Tony Redmond has joined the Practical365.com team to write for the site covering a range of Microsoft 365 topics. We're looking for more writers to join the team. People with fantastic knowledge and insight about how Microsoft 365 technology really works. That kind of thing...

February 24, 2021
Intune policies for a user-friendly Edge Chromium deployment 2 Comments

Intune policies for a user-friendly Edge Chromium deployment

With the move from Edge Legacy to Edge Chromium, there are few reasons to use a third-party browser on Windows 10. Despite being the browser of choice for most businesses, Edge, much like OneDrive for Business, needs a bit of configuration to get it right. In this article, Ru explains the different Intune Administrative Templates recommended to make your users’ first run of Edge smooth and appropriate for the enterprise.

February 23, 2021
SharePoint Online and OneDrive for Business are Kissing Cousins and Now Share an Admin Center

SharePoint Online and OneDrive for Business are Kissing Cousins and Now Share an Admin Center

In an utterly predictable move, the SharePoint Online admin center is absorbing the functionality of the OneDrive for Business admin center. Some settings have already moved across and you can expect the OneDrive admin center to go into the great byte wastebasket in mid-2021. This consolidation barely dents the number of admin centers active within Microsoft 365. All of which makes tenant administration more tiresome than it needs to be.

February 23, 2021
Teams Approvals App Delivers Simple Workflow 2 Comments

Teams Approvals App Delivers Simple Workflow

The new Teams Approvals app delivers simple workflow capabilities built on top of Power Automate and Dataverse. The simplicity is attractive and makes the app very easy to use, but maybe it's a little too simple to handle the kind of workflow scenarios proposed by Microsoft. It will certainly be interesting to see how tenants use the Approvals app in their deployments.

February 22, 2021
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