Tag: Teams

Scheduling Channel Meetings with the Microsoft Graph PowerShell SDK

• Post author:By Tony Redmond

Channel meetings are a type of meeting specifically intended for channel members to attend. Creating normal meetings is easy, but can you create channel meetings with the Graph API? As it turns out, you currently cannot. The suggested workaround is to create a normal (private) meeting and then post the details of that meeting in the channel for channel members to see. That doesn't make the meeting show up in the channel calendar, but at least you can meet.

• Teams

January 27, 2026

Practical Teams: Call Queue and Call Back Feature

• Post author:By Thorsten Pickhan

This article provides an overview of the general feature, explains how to enable it in the Teams Admin Center, and outlines what is crucial for a Teams Administrator to ensure the feature works as expected.

• Blog

October 21, 2025

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Practical Graph: Creating a Multi-Workload User Activity Report

• Post author:By Tony Redmond

Microsoft 365 comes with many usage report API covering different workloads. This article explains how to use PowerShell to extract usage data for multiple workloads to combine together to create a holistic view of user account activity within a Microsoft 365 tenant.

• Microsoft 365

October 20, 2025

Copilot Chat for Everyone, AI Agents Everywhere in Teams, and Fighting “Workslop” – Practical 365 Podcast S04E44

• Post author:By Steve Goodman

On this episode of the Practical 365 Podcast, Steve and Paul discuss Copilot Chat integration into Office apps, AI generated workslop, and why many pilot programs for AI (including Copilot) don't get off the ground.

• Podcasts

October 8, 2025

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Second Generation of Private Channels Scales Up to New Heights

• Post author:By Tony Redmond

Boasting a 20-fold increase in scalability and a cloud mailbox to hold a channel calendar, Microsoft is giving Teams private channels a significant revamp in an update that will roll out in late September 2025. The new mailbox is the new home for compliance records for private channels, which means that Microsoft 365 retention policies need a review to make sure that conversations are retained as desired.

• Teams

August 25, 2025

Deleting Teams Chat Files Automatically Using Purview

• Post author:By Joanne Klein

Many organizations view Teams chats stored in OneDrive for Business as potential compliance risks. Without proper retention policies, this data can be lost, deleted, or retained too long. In this blog, we dive into managing Teams chat files automatically with Purview.

• Microsoft Purview

July 28, 2025

Microsoft Teams Direct Routing: Phone Number Inventory

• Post author:By Thorsten Pickhan

In this article, Thorsten Pickhan covers how to add Direct Routing phone numbers to the internal Teams Phone Number database, how to remove phone numbers, and the benefits of doing so.

• Blog

July 21, 2025

Practical Teams: App Management In Microsoft 365

• Post author:By Adam Deltinger

In this installment of Practical Teams, we explain what App-Centric Management is, how Integrated Apps work, and how Unified App Management differs from earlier methods.

• Microsoft 365

July 16, 2025

Practical Teams Phone: How Emergency Calling Works

• Post author:By Thorsten Pickhan

Emergency Calling is one of the most important aspects that organizations should consider when deploying a new phone system. In this Episode of Practical Teams Phone, we discuss how Emergency Calling works and some considerations when deploying.

• Teams

March 11, 2025

Practical PnP: Automating Teams Creation using Templates

• Post author:By Sean McAvinue

In this installment of Practical PnP, Sean McAvinue dives into how PnP PowerShell can help to improve automated Teams provisioning using templates and preset structures.

• Blog

February 25, 2025

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