Tag: Teams

Cloud.Microsoft Domain Changes, Viva Goals Retirement & Copilot Updates: The Practical 365 Podcast S4 E33

• Post author:By Steve Goodman

In this week's episode, we dive deep into Microsoft's latest announcements and changes that will impact your organization in 2025 and beyond. We examine the reasoning behind the cloud.microsoft domain rollout, what the retirement of Viva Goals means for organizations invested in OKR solutions, and discuss the implications of the forced transition to the new Outlook for Windows by 2026.

• Podcasts

December 20, 2024

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Practical 365 Review of 2024

• Post author:By Tony Redmond

In our 2024 review of Microsoft 365, we consider some of the major technical advances that occured in Microsoft's cloud ecosystem in 2024 together with some upcoming changes that have the potential to affect tenant operations. As always, our choice of what's important and what's not might not match yours, so feel free to comment and voice your opinion.

• Microsoft 365

December 19, 2024

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Microsoft Places, Teams Features and Copilot Confusion: The Practical 365 Podcast S4 E32

• Post author:By Steve Goodman

In this Episode of the Practical 365 Podcast, Paul and Steve explore Microsoft's ever-expanding Copilot strategy, debate the complexities of Microsoft Places licensing, and discuss whether every AI feature really needs Copilot branding.

• Blog

December 4, 2024

Practical Teams: What’s New for Task Publishing

• Post author:By Adam Deltinger

Task publishing in Teams has been around for a number of years, but Microsoft recently introduced several major updates. In this installment of Practical Teams, we review these new additions and explain how they are useful.

• Blog

November 19, 2024

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Practical Teams Phone: Microsoft Teams Shared Calling

• Post author:By Thorsten Pickhan

In the first episode of Practical Teams Phone, Thorsten Pickhan reviews Teams Shared Calling, how it works, and some practical use cases.

• Teams

September 23, 2024

A trio of Security Bugs in Exchange and New Azure AD sync features: Practical 365 Podcast S3 E19

• Post author:By Steve Goodman

In this week's Practical 365 Podcast, Steve and Paul Discuss new security updates for Exchange Server, what you should do if you are still on Exchange Server 2013, Azure AD Cross Tenant Sync arrives in the roadmap for imminent release, and much more!

• Podcasts

January 18, 2023

Skills you need this year and top Microsoft 365 security, AI & productivity features from 2022: Practical 365 Podcast S3 E18

• Post author:By Steve Goodman

Join us for the first Practical 365 podcast episode of 2023 - with Paul and Steve discussing what skills you need for the upcoming year - and does it matter if you learn skills you never use?

• Podcasts

January 5, 2023

9 Must-Read Practical 365 Posts from 2022

• Post author:By Tony Redmond

Here’s to another year of practical advice on all things Microsoft! Practical 365 is wrapping up the year with a whopping 200+ articles, focusing on topics such as PowerShell, Exchange, Azure AD, Teams, and much more. This article shares 9 must-read posts, recommended by Steve Goodman, Tony Redmond, and Paul Robichaux.

• Blog

December 22, 2022

Games in Teams and Fun Times Patching Security Bugs in Exchange: Practical 365 Podcast S3 E15

• Post author:By Steve Goodman

On this week's show, Steve and Paul get together while Paul's on the road and discuss the biggest news worth discussing in the world of Microsoft 365. We chat about the new Games feature in Teams - and come up with some use-cases for where it might be appropriate to use - and debate the latest Exchange Server updates and Microsoft's change to Exchange servicing.

• Blog

November 23, 2022

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Native Cross-Tenant Migrations, Exchange 2019 upgrades, New Teams client & Azure AD: Practical 365 Podcast S3 E14

• Post author:By Steve Goodman

This week on the show, Steve and Paul are joined by Sigi Jagott, long-time MVP and Exchange Server expert, to discuss best practice when upgrading on-premises servers to Exchange 2019, Native Cross-Tenant Migrations, Azure AD resiliency, and more!

• Blog

November 8, 2022

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Exchange Online Powershell

How to Set Auto-Reply for Group Mailboxes with PowerShell

• Post author:By Tony Redmond

Microsoft recently added the ability to set auto-reply for group mailboxes. In this article, we explain why you'd want to do such a thing and go through some PowerShell code to show how to set appropriate auto-reply messages for team-enabled Microsoft 365 Groups.

• Teams

June 22, 2022

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Five Practical Actions to Control Guest Accounts for Microsoft Teams

• Post author:By Tony Redmond

The number of guest accounts in Azure AD keeps growing, largely due to usage in Microsoft Teams. In this article, we describe five basic management steps to control where guests come how, how they connect, what they can do and access, and removing inactive guests. It's the kind of thing all Microsoft 365 tenants should do.

• Azure Active Directory

February 11, 2022