With a little over 6 weeks to go until Ignite and the Business Application Summit last month we are sure to be getting some new features and enhancements galore over the next couple months. As an FYI: Microsoft has made most of, if not all the Business Applications Summit sessions available on demand. If you’re thinking about how your organization can take advantage of the Microsoft Power Platform (Power BI, PowerApps, Flow and Dynamics 365) it’s worth looking through the sessions.
Author: Duane A. Odum
Office 365 Architect
MS Teams and Skype for Business transition is coming: Are you ready?
Administrators of Office 365 be warned…the Teams/Skype for Business migrations are going to be coming and you need to start being proactive sooner rather than later. Most of us have already got the “Teams & Skype” admin center but we can still utilize the Services & add-ins section to manage tenant wide settings we don’t have access to in the new admin center. As you may have already guessed that’s going to be changing, quickly. Continue reading “MS Teams and Skype for Business transition is coming: Are you ready?”
What’s New In Office 365 (July 2018)
It’s been another busy month for Office 365 updates. Many of the updates that rolled out 
were ahead of schedule which can be nice for folks that were waiting on a specific update to implement a solution. However, it’s nice when the Office 365 Roadmap is accurate😊.
Microsoft 365 Admin Center
This one’s been in the pipeline for some time but if you haven’t checked it out yet be prepared for some changes. Content is still very similar so it’s not a terribly difficult adjustment but anything with Administration rights in Office 365 should get familiar with the new layout sooner rather than later at https://admin.microsoft.com. Continue reading “What’s New In Office 365 (July 2018)”
SharePoint Conference 2018 Day 1 Recap
I was watching the SharePoint Conference North America 2018 Keynote (#SPC18 on Twitter) and I must admit, I “geeked out” a little bit about SharePoint Spaces and started to contemplate how I could convince the executive team to sign off on a Commercial HoloLens. If you are not familiar with SharePoint Spaces head over to the GeekWire article on SharePoint spaces by Nat Levy. Essentially Microsoft is using Office 365/SharePoint Online to bring mixed reality creation to the masses. The astute reader will notice that you don’t need the HoloLens but to you good reader, I say phooey…go big or go home. If you or your organization want to get in on the private preview you can nominate your organization using the SharePoint Spaces Form (love that they are using MS Forms for this😊). Continue reading “SharePoint Conference 2018 Day 1 Recap”
What’s New in Office 365 (May 2018)
Keep an eye on your Office 365 Admin Message Center over the next couple months. As Microsoft is getting ramped up for SharePoint Conference North America May 21st – 23rd in Las Vegas, NV we can expect to see more updates and enhancements rolling out than normal. Below are some of the highlights of the announcements from April:
Office 365 Organization Theme Update
- Intend to rollout in June 2018 and while it’s not a major change it is something to be aware of….
It’s a No Code/Low Code World in Office 365
Time to come clean…I have a love/hate relationship with Office 365. A majority of my work life for the past 3 years has been dedicated to Office 365 and while I see the excellent value it provides it’s taking away something I really enjoy, code. While I was assisting a client with a OneDrive for Business rollout last week I had an epiphany. In the past 5 months I have probably written around 1,000 lines of code for work and it has mostly been JavaScript, TypeScript or PowerShell. I’ve not done a single line of C# code this year for work. Some of the other folks in our group have so it has not been a total annihilation of managed code but it kind of has been for me and I do miss it. Continue reading “It’s a No Code/Low Code World in Office 365”
External Users Access Change in Office 365
If you receive the Office 365 Message Center Update Notifications you know that it’s rare to see a “Major Update Notification” that you must act upon quickly, but that is exactly what we received on Saturday February 24th. Starting on March 23, 2018 external users will no longer belong to the following groups in SharePoint Online: Everyone, All Authenticated Users and All Forms Users. While this does not directly impact any of the Office 365 customers we are engaged with on a regular basis I am sure it will impact some organizations in a major way.
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