I have been working with Microsoft SharePoint for a long time and have encountered many moments where I thought “SharePoint drives me crazy!” I know I'm not the only one and recently I had the opportunity to join the Microsoft Intrazone podcast to share my story. Two other guests joined the podcast with me: Joanne Klein, SharePoint and Microsoft 365 consultant – Microsoft MVP – and founder of NexNovus Consulting Ruven Gotz, Director, Workplace Experience Lead at Avanade. All three of us have experienced frustration with the product or with situations where SharePoint was a key component. We also have had great success with SharePoint and enabled our clients to…
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SharePoint, Microsoft Lists, list rules and notifications – #173
This week on the 365 Message Center Show Get notifications when items change in a list that you contribute to. When items are updated or added in Microsoft Lists and SharePoint lists, visit the list to find out what has changed. Basic rules for lists open up a number of interactive possibilities for monitoring and actioning information. In this episode: – List rules make it easy to set up notifications of changes – Configuring list or library forms for Microsoft Lists and SharePoint – Introducing SharePoint Portal Launch Scheduler – Managing Q&A and comments in Yammer live events – Updates available for Microsoft 365 Apps for Current Channel – The…
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Add Microsoft Teams to your SharePoint team site – #172
This week on the 365 Message Center Show Teamify your SharePoint site but with a difference. Now you can add tabs to some of the content from your team site as you create the Microsoft Team. Pin useful and familiar lists, pages and libraries to the General channel of the team get off to a good start. Also this week: – New immersive experience for Yammer live events attendees – Secure by Default – Honoring EOP/ATP detonation verdicts – Use SharePoint tab to add pages, lists or document libraries to a channel in Teams – Introducing intelligent file recommendations for Planner – SharePoint site header updates – Add Microsoft Teams…
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Updates to Microsoft Teams meeting chat membership – #171
This week on the 365 Message Center Show Your access to Microsoft Teams meeting chat will depend on how you are invited to the meeting. Those invited part way through a meeting will only see the conversation for the duration of the meeting. Why is that important? Watch this weeks episode to find out why. Also this week: – Full screen support in new meetings experience – Microsoft Teams: Accounts – Office Client Service health communications – Updates to meeting chat membership – Exclude specific files from OneDrive sync – SharePoint spaces: Touch device support Join Daniel Glenn and Darrell as a Service Webster as they cover the latest messages…
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Announcing Forms polls in Microsoft Teams meetings – #170
This week on the 365 Message Center Show Who doesn't love a good poll in an online meeting? Results will be shared live during this episode of the 365 Message Center Show, as we discuss polls coming to Microsoft Teams meetings with Microsoft Forms. In this episode: – Extending the temporary limit increase for live events – Announcing Forms polls in Microsoft Teams meetings – OneDrive: Bookmark for OneDrive for iOS – New feature: Adding personal accounts in Teams coming soon on desktop – Microsoft 365 admin center: Simplified admin experience – New: Microsoft Lists undo and redo commands Join Daniel Glenn and Darrell as a Service Webster as they…
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M365 Chicago Virtual Conference 2020
M365 Chicago 2020 is occurring Friday November 13th, 2020! The event will be virtual, and it will feature so many great sessions and speakers! M365 Chicago 2020 My session, Using Your On-prem Data in a Cloud World, will showcase how you can use your data in Microsoft 365 no matter where it lives. The list of sessions is amazing with so many great speakers and sessions! Check out the registration page to get signed up! Check out all the great sessions and speakers on the event page. Resources Using Your On-prem Data in a Cloud World – Daniel Glenn Chicago 2020 (Slides) Power Apps Community Plan
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Workshop: Protect & Externally Share Your Data in Teams, SharePoint, & OneDrive
On Tuesday, November 10th 2020, Drew Madelung and I will be giving a half-day workshop on sharing. It is titled Protect & Externally Share Your Data in Teams, SharePoint, & OneDrive, and it will be an afternoon of learning and fun! The ability to safeguard your data when sharing externally is possible and we will show you how to: Control & manage external sharing and guest access in your tenant The elements of the Microsoft Information Protection Preventing data exfiltration from Teams, SharePoint, and OneDrive By the end of this workshop you will know what you can do to secure your data and allow your company to collaborate better and…
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New Scenes for Together Mode in Microsoft Teams – #169
This week on the 365 Message Center Show New scenes for Together Mode bring meeting attendees together with different backgrounds. Four new scenes for displaying video from up to 50 attendees and two scenes of a new 5-attendee size. Don't worry if you haven't chosen the right size. Other attendees will display below the scene and you can change to a different scene if the meeting size increases. In this episode: – Teams support for 3×3 recordings – Announcing Teams public preview for end users – Introducing new scenes to Together Mode – Upcoming changes to topics and hashtags in Yammer – Microsoft Productivity Score soon to be generally available…
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Reducing background noise in Microsoft Teams meetings – #168
This week on the 365 Message Cent0er Show Microsoft Teams will soon offer AI powered background noise suppression. We've seen it in demos. How will it work in reality? How will it perform in an open floor office? A café? Or is it meant to help remote workers who have to work in shared spaces at home? In this episode: – Increasing team membership to 25,000 members per team – Microsoft Teams: Increasing the org-wide team limit from 5,000 to 10,000 – Play My Emails in Outlook for iOS and Android launching internationally – Reducing background noise in Microsoft Teams meetings – Introducing commenting in Microsoft Lists – Outgoing screen-sharing…
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Microsoft Teams Virtual Breakout Rooms – #167
This week on the 365 Message Cent0er Show Improve the level of interaction between meeting attendees with virtual breakout rooms. Limitations of audio technology mean only one person can speak and be clearly heard at one time in an online meeting. Teams breakout rooms provide a smaller, isolated place to converse, collaborate and create. In this episode: – Sharing links that block video file download – Outlook on the web, Project Moca preview – Microsoft Teams – Virtual Breakout Rooms – Modern capability to add custom content types in SharePoint – Meeting chat moderation settings – Transfer Teams meeting between devices or add another device Join Daniel Glenn and Darrell…
