Practical Teams Phone: Microsoft Teams Shared Calling
In the first episode of Practical Teams Phone, Thorsten Pickhan reviews Teams Shared Calling, how it works, and some practical use cases.
September 23, 2024
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A trio of Security Bugs in Exchange and New Azure AD sync features: Practical 365 Podcast S3 E19
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!
January 18, 2023
Skills you need this year and top Microsoft 365 security, AI & productivity features from 2022: Practical 365 Podcast S3 E18
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?
January 5, 2023
9 Must-Read Practical 365 Posts from 2022
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.
December 22, 2022
Games in Teams and Fun Times Patching Security Bugs in Exchange: Practical 365 Podcast S3 E15
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.
November 23, 2022
Native Cross-Tenant Migrations, Exchange 2019 upgrades, New Teams client & Azure AD: Practical 365 Podcast S3 E14
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!
November 8, 2022
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How to Set Auto-Reply for Group Mailboxes with PowerShell
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.
June 22, 2022
Five Practical Actions to Control Guest Accounts for Microsoft Teams
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.
February 11, 2022
How to Use Office 365 Audit Data with Microsoft Sentinel
Microsoft Sentinel is Microsoft's log aggregator. Along with other data, Sentinel can ingest events from the Office 365 audit log. Once ingested, we can visualize the data through workbooks. If you have an Azure subscription, it's surprisingly easy to take advantage of the 31-day trial to see if Sentinel can do a job for your organization. Follow our steps and you'll be visualizing quickly.
January 13, 2022
Join us for Practical 365 Live from Ignite, plus – what’s in our session schedule?
I promised to share my schedule for Microsoft Ignite 2021, this week 2nd-4th November, so read on to find out my thoughts when I checked out the schedule, and which sessions I chose. And join Paul Robichaux and myself for the Practical 365 Podcast - Live from Ignite. We'll be covering the biggest announcements from the day with full commentary.
November 1, 2021
Ignite 2021 is Next Week. Here’s What I Anticipate for Microsoft 365
Microsoft Ignite 2021 happens (virtually) on Nov 2-4. There are tons of sessions scheduled and in this post we consider some important Microsoft 365 topics that we hope Microsoft will cover to help technologists plan tenant development over the coming year. Above all, we're looking forward to being able to attend conferences like Ignite in person so that we can learn from experts from inside and outside Microsoft.
October 26, 2021
Support for Apple CarPlay Arrives in Teams – Was it worth the wait?
Teams finally arrives in Apple CarPlay touting support for joining meeting and making calls. We road test this new feature to see whether it lives up to expectations.
September 24, 2021