In this week's episode of the 365 Message Center Show, we cover planned maintenance for Yammer, TLS changes, changes to Shared with me, MAJOR updated to SharePoint and OneDrive forced versioning, and our experience with the OneDrive ‘Known Folder Move'. 03:30 Planned maintenance: Yammer will be temporarily offline – Read announcement MC144352 — Azure is having scheduled maintenance and so Yammer will be down. 05:16 Reminder: We are moving to TLS 1.2 for encryption – Read announcement MC144908 — Just a reminder that you need to move to using TLS 1.2 and fix any apps that are still using TLS 1.0 or 1.1. The deadline has been extended until October 21, 2018. 7:45 Unexpected file…
-
-
365 Message Center Show #55 – Recap
In this week's episode of the 365 Message Center Show, we cover conditional access for Office.com, LinkedIn data being shown inside Outlook for Windows and iOS, enhanced view of files you have shared in OneDrive for Business, SharePoint Online modern page approvals, and automatically logging people out of SharePoint and OneDrive for Business sessions. 03:40 Office.com Conditional Access Policy behavior – Read announcement MC143889 — Clarification and fixing how office.com access works when using an access policy in Office 365. 08:03 Organization Allowed Accounts Intune Policy now in OneDrive on Android – Read announcement MC144063 **Will need Intune in your tenant — Locking down who can use OneDrive in your organization coming to Andoid…
-
365 Message Center Show #54 – Recap
In this week's episode of the 365 Message Center Show, we cover the Message Center Reader role, changes in SharePoint, OneDrive, and Exchange Web Services. Check out the time stamped links below. 02:49 Updated site usage page in SharePoint Online – Read announcement MC143535 — Updates to what usage information we are getting from SharePoint Online. We covered this one pretty well, so check out the video. 10:00 Known Folder Move is now available for OneDrive for Business – Read announcement MC143579 — This update is great for helping your users utilize OneDrive – if not forcing them – without their need to start saving in a different place. 14:35 Multi-Factor Authentication and self-service password…
-
365 Message Center Show #53 – Recap
In this week's episode of the 365 Message Center Show, we discuss major changes in SharePoint, Teams, and Office. Check out the time stamped links below. 03:30 Monthly feature updates for Office 2016 for Office 365 – Read announcement MC142651 — Our monthly update for Office – some exciting stuff, including being able to title your slides with a pen in PowerPoint. 08:26 Office 365 Threat Intelligence Threat Trackers – Read announcement MC143221 — New capabilities for analyzing trends and patterns in your organization. 13:02 Office 365 System Requirements for Client Connectivity – Read announcement MC143230 — Older versions of Office (including Office 2016) will not be able to connect to Office 365 – SharePoint…
-
365 Message Center Show #52 – Recap
In this week's episode of the 365 Message Center Show, we discuss the impact of changes made to sharing and email branding options in OneDrive for Business and SharePoint Online, controlling your email domain and sender rewriting scheme, auditing Exchange mailbox actions, the changes to the amount of storage in SharePoint Online, and Outlook add-in deployment. > 03:06 Changes to external sharing in OneDrive for Business and SharePoint Online – Read announcement MC142082 > 06:19 Branding of sharing emails for OneDrive for Business and SharePoint Online – Read announcement MC142154 > 10:27 Sender rewriting scheme for auto-forwarded and relayed emails in Exchange – Read announcement MC142243 > 13:44 New Exchange mailbox actions to audit – Read announcement MC142244 > 15:10 SharePoint…
-
Power and Simplicity – Changes to Office UI
Microsoft this week announced changes to the user interface (UI) for its Office products. Read the announcement here: Microsoft Office gets a makeover. Those changes, although no too drastic, will have an impact on users and their workloads. A few of the crew at @REgarding365, Sarah Haase, Loryan Strant, Darrell Webster and I, decided to get together to discuss the upcoming changes and what the impacts might be. Enjoy the video:
-
Do you need an intranet? Are they still relevant?
On Thursday 4/19/2018 3pm Central time, the REgarding 365 crew and some special guests will tackle the question: Are Intranets still relevant? Join me, Liz Sundet, Sarah Haase, Tracy van der Schyff, Alistair Pugin, and Sébastien Levert as we dive into this very important discussion. If you can join us live, make sure you join the chat and ask your questions, get your word in! More info on the event can be found on the REgarding 365 blog. You can tune into the debate using the video below (or check the recording if you aren't able to jump in live).
-
Talking Microsoft Teams adoption with Erica Toelle
I had a chat with Erica Toelle [Twitter] at SharePoint Saturday (SPS) St. Louis and we talked about Microsoft Teams adoption. The video and some key highlights are below: 01:10 User categories for adoption 01:33 Erica's number 1 tip for adopting Microsoft Teams 01:56 Video in Teams can be that ‘sticky' feature 03:24 I ask: Is Teams flexible enough for all users in an organization 04:25 Teams can work organically with your working group
-
Planning is key for all migrations to Office 365
I had a chat with Mike Maadarani [Twitter] at SharePoint Saturday (SPS) St. Louis about SharePoint migrations and his strategies for helping organizations moving to the cloud. The video and some key points are below: 00:48 Big challenge when migrating SharePoint 01:15 Unlocking the new features in SharePoint & adoption 02:08 For SharePoint migrations, clicking the button is the easy part 03:43 First thing to do before migrating… 04:37 What are users often confused about with Office 365
