Five Pitfalls to Avoid during a Microsoft 365 Cross-Tenant Migration
This article is a rough collection of rough pitfalls for you to consider when planning your next Microsoft 365 Cross-Tenant migration project.
August 31, 2022
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Migrate Office 365 Inactive Mailboxes and Deleted OneDrives
Retaining inactive mailboxes and deleted OneDrives may be required for compliance; but moving them in a tenant-to-tenant migration can be a challenge. We will discuss how to identify inactive mailboxes and deleted OneDrives, and review the processes available for migration.
August 16, 2022
Microsoft 365 Exchange Online Domain Transfers: Analysis Phase
In this article, we will discuss the Analysis phase of an Exchange Online domain move project. Please refer to our previous post for a brief overview of the five best practices for Microsoft 365 Exchange Online Domain Transfers.
August 9, 2022
Handling Inactive Devices in Microsoft Defender for Endpoint
Managing inactive devices is a confusing concept for an administrator just starting with Microsoft Defender for Endpoint. This article will provide key insights on how organizations can handle inactive devices within Microsoft Defender for Endpoint.
August 3, 2022
Setting up Microsoft Tunnel to control access to Microsoft 365 mobile devices
In this article, you will learn how to implement Conditional Access and Microsoft Tunnel to control and monitor all traffic that has access to Microsoft 356 within your organization.
August 2, 2022
Ten Years After Acquisition, Yammer Continues Searching for a Mission inside Microsoft 365
Ten years ago, Microsoft bought Yammer to get into the world of enterprise social networking. It was a big thing at the time, but less so now, and Yammer's role inside Microsoft 365 is uncertain in the minds of many. Those who like Yammer get value from its use, but it does seem that Yammer has been left behind by apps like Teams.
June 23, 2022
Microsoft 365 and Office 365: Microsoft’s Confusing Branding
The recent 10th anniversary of the launch of Office 365 brought some questions about the demarcation between Office 365 and Microsoft 365. For instance, do I have an Office 365 tenant or is it a Microsoft 365 tenant? Is a feature part of Microsoft 365 or does it belong to Office 365? And why does Microsoft insist on calling its desktop Office apps Microsoft 365 Apps for enterprise? Welcome to the bizarre world of branding, and that’s before throwing Windows 365 into the mix.
July 28, 2021
The Practical 365 Update: S2, Ep 15 – Viva Insights with Kamal Janardhan, plus the latest Microsoft 365 news
On the show this week, we're joined by a special guest from Microsoft, to talk about one of the key pillars of Microsoft Viva - and we discuss new Teams features you might not like quite so much, discuss the recent Microsoft outage and look at three big new features on the Microsoft 365 Roadmap...
April 2, 2021
How to Create a Subscription Tracker with Microsoft Lists and Power Automate
Follow Luise Freese's step-by-step guide as she takes a deep dive into tracking Microsoft 365 service subscriptions and shows how to build powerful lists in Microsoft Lists, extending what’s available in SharePoint Online with Power Automate. She covers specific features, such as adding a new service for each subscription plan bought; specifying the billing term, pricing, and expiration date; automatically counting down the days until renewal; reviewing billing history and total amount paid; as well as sending renewal reminders in mobile notifications.
March 17, 2021
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
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
Hands-on SharePoint Syntex Blog Series – Part I
This blog series will examine and test-drive SharePoint Syntex, a powerful new Microsoft 365 service announced by Microsoft at Ignite 2020. SharePoint Syntex consists of Content understanding, processing, and compliance services that provide the ability to capture and scale expertise using advanced AI and machine learning.
January 20, 2021