Poly has launched a new series of products aimed to up the video and audio experience for home workers, this will ensure no matter where you are you can ensure your video calls and content look and sound professional.
Read MoreWorking with a customer recently, we had made it to the project stage where we were looking to change their Teams coexistence mode to Teams only. Normally a great time to celebrate in a Teams adoption project! However, we ran into an issue. Upon trying to save the change in the Teams admin console, we were greeted with the message below. The message itself wasn’t constructive as it just highlighted the unsaved sections below.
Read MoreI recently had a problem where I needed to reconfigure my security settings, particularly Microsoft Authenticator for my guest / external account within a customers Azure Active Directory. You may have similar accounts if you have invited to contribute in Microsoft Teams within another organisation.
After buying a new phone I needed to change the device I was using to authenticate but had a problem trying to find where to achieve this for my guest account. I found a fix for this as below.
Read MoreMicrosoft has recently launched new functionality that allows applications to interact with meetings within Teams. One application currently available is Microsoft Forms allowing you to create polls within your Teams meetings. This is a feature that has been requested by many customers I have been working with so I am pleased to see that it has now been released.
Read MoreI am someone who has spent a lot of time learning what I can do to maximise what I can achieve during my workday, ensuring that I am always-on-top of things and equally that I am able to relax at the end of the day knowing that everything is in hand. Whilst this will be a constant journey. I have learnt a lot along the way. In this blog post, I want to expand on some key information that I have learnt and how I have implemented some important steps in Microsoft Planner.
Read MoreMicrosoft are busy rolling out a considerable number of updates to Teams and related Microsoft 365 technologies at present. One that I have been waiting on for a few months is Microsoft Teams Templates. Microsoft Teams Templates are designed to help you and your users quickly and easily create Teams based upon standard templates.
Read MoreI spend my whole day in Microsoft Teams, whether that is attending meetings, accessing documents, demonstrating Teams to customers or working on documents with colleagues or customers and this got me thinking is there a gap within Teams around personal productivity?
We all know that Microsoft Teams is your hub for teamwork, but it also introduces many features and applications that can mean it becomes your hub for productivity. One area that I believe is missing is a single area for users to come within Teams to see everything that is important to them, maybe this is an expansion to the notification area or a completely new type of team.
I have been playing around with this idea myself and have found that a Team that I call “My Hub” has become one of my most important goto Teams that I use on a regular basis.
Read MoreWith many people now looking at Microsoft Lists since its GA earlier this year one area I was surprised to see what that versioning was not enabled by default when you create a List. Versioning allows you to view all changes that have been made within a list, this includes when data in a field has been changed.
These simple steps will show you how to enable versioning for all the data within your Microsoft List.
Read MoreMicrosoft Lists was made generally available earlier this summer and is an evolution of SharePoint Lists that have been available for some time. Lists offers enhanced ways to store and query data within Microsoft 365, SharePoint and Microsoft Teams. However, before jumping in and creating a list take some time to review our list of considerations.
Read MoreIf you want to quickly check the settings for all your Teams users with regard to calling you can use the following Powershell command.
Read MoreI recently came across a problem that when voicemails were left for a Teams user they would appear in the user’s inbox, but did not appear within Teams.
Read MoreThe new meeting experiences inside Microsoft Teams are starting to hit tenants now. These new features will allow for a more immersive meeting experience using Together mode to superimpose everybody into an auditorium or for the new 7x7 person view.
Read MoreWhile doing some testing of Autopilot while on the road, I came across a problem where, on first login for the end user, a “Something went wrong” message appeared. The error code was “caa70007”. Time to do some troubleshooting.
Read MoreWhile Microsoft might deem file shares to be old fashioned and prefer you to use SharePoint online, most businesses still use file shares to a greater or lesser extent.
Being able to replicate the files to Azure and back down to other sites is the aim of the newly-launched Azure File Sync.
Read MoreIn this, the second of two blog posts,we will look at the process of installing Azure AD Connect with the new Pass-through Authentication o
Read MoreJust as most of us were getting ready for Christmas 2016, Microsoft announced to relatively little fanfare a new way to configure authentication in Office 365. From a technical point of view this is perhaps one of the most significant Office 365 developments of the year and one that neatly addresses one of the difficult decisions to be made when implementing Office 365.
Read MoreWith most of the big industry events over, the majority of announcements and updates have already been released and the news is a little quiet. However, we have put together the biggest stories of the past week into one place.
Read MoreFollowing one of the biggest mergers in IT history between Dell and EMC, VMware has announced their own strategic partnerships within the cloud. This weeks BizTech Brief covers the latest and biggest news from the past week in the industry.
Read MoreWith changes in Windows 10’s patching options introduced in the Windows 10 1607 (“Anniversary”) release, Microsoft has published a concise summary of the patching options
Read MoreThe season of events and conferences is truly upon us, full of product updates and industry announcements. The season was kicked off by Microsoft's annual ignite conference in London last week.
Read MoreJoin us as we explore the innovative world of Copilot, diving into its various versions, standout features, and the benefits they bring. Consider this episode your guide to integrating Copilot seamlessly into your organisation, equipped with essential tips on data governance and organisation-wide templates.
In this tech-packed conversation, we demystify the intricacies of modern management and unveil the power duo – Microsoft Intune and Windows Autopilot.
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In this episode, we're unravelling the mysteries of the latest Microsoft 365: Loop. Join us as we equip you with all the essential details to transform from a Loop novice to a Loop legend.
Join us as we explore the innovative world of Copilot, diving into its various versions, standout features, and the benefits they bring. Consider this episode your guide to integrating Copilot seamlessly into your organisation, equipped with essential tips on data governance and organisation-wide templates.
In this episode, we're unravelling the mysteries of the latest Microsoft 365: Loop. Join us as we equip you with all the essential details to transform from a Loop novice to a Loop legend.