Subscribe to a Calendar in Outlook To stay informed with the happenings of your community group or sport club, you can subscribe to an internet calendar in Outlook. This will allow you to keep up with the schedule, but also any changes that happen to the calendar. Simply importing calendar entries will not accomplish the task. Don't Import Your Calendar Importing a calendar via an .ics file, for example, will most certainly give you the meetings in your calendar. However, if the creator of the calendar makes changes to the meetings in the calendar, you will not receive the updates. Outlook Makes Subscribing Easy Outlook provides a easy method of…
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Publish Outlook Calendar to the Internet
Why Publish an Outlook Calendar to the Internet? Before asking how to publish an Outlook calendar to the internet, we should know why one would want to. Many civic, sports, and community groups need a way to keep their members informed of events. Groups can invite their members to meetings to accomplish that task, but that requires keeping track of every email address needed for invites. Pull, Not Push Instead of using a push method – sending invites to members – groups can enable a ‘pull' method. Publish a calendar on the internet and have members subscribe to it. This allows for the refreshing of calendar entries and those changes…
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SharePoint stock images - with Vlad Catrinescu special guest #142 – 365 Message Center Show
This week on the 365 Message Center Show *Stay tuned to the end for a special interview with Vlad Catrinescu (Twitter), Author & Microsoft MVP, concerning the new Power Platform Data Loss Prevention features.* Resource mentioned during interview: Power Apps Center of Excellence We all have our go-to sources for stock images. But soon, you won't need to leave SharePoint to find stock images to brighten up your modern pages. Also on the show: – Yammer app for Microsoft Teams – Third party online meeting providers in Outlook for Android – Continuous Access Evaluation (CAE) – New and updated usage reports in Microsoft 365 admin center – Prepare for update to the new…
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3 by 3 video layout in Microsoft Teams Meetings #141 – 365 Message Center Show
This week on the 365 Message Center Show The meeting layout in Microsoft Teams will soon show 3 by 3, or 9 active participants. It will alter the number based on your available bandwidth to maintain high quality audio and video experience. But now you can keep an eye on more of your team mates and audience. Also on the show: – Updates to Outlook for iOS and Android – Teams enhanced meeting and admin controls, and security enhancements – Update to Office 365 ProPlus – Rich-text editor for text fields with SharePoint lists – Updated Yammer Conversations web part for SharePoint – Native mode alignment tool for Yammer –…
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Modern experience for managed metadata services #140 – 365 Message Center Show
This week on the 365 Message Center Show The SharePoint Online managed metadata services finally gets a modern SharePoint makeover. Term store manager, content type gallery and tagging / filtering options are all in line for modernization. Also on the show: – Basic Auth and Exchange Online update – Microsoft Teams: Raise your virtual hand in Teams meetings – Microsoft Forms eDiscovery export format change – End-user spam notifications missing phish mails – Streamlining the recipient experience for links shared with specific people – Content query web part performance banner – New service plan, common data service, added to enable future Office features Join Daniel Glenn and Darrell as a…
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Microsoft Teams background effects arriving mid April #139 – 365 Message Center Show
This week on the 365 Message Center Show Only the most anticipated feature while we all work from home… change our backgrounds in Microsoft Teams so we don't look like we're working from home! Also on the show: – Sharing behavior for non-Office resources – Secure by default: Junking domains that fail authentication – Outlook on the web, new editor capabilities (Microsoft Editor) – Licensing and enforcement deadline extensions for Dynamics 365, Power Automate, and Power Apps – SharePoint and OneDrive command bar reorganized for Power Automate features – SharePoint Spaces Preview: It's actually arriving! – Yammer uses your Office profile (and steps up consistent exp). – Yammer All Company feed…
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Microsoft 365 temporary feature adjustments #138 – 365 Message Center Show
This week on the 365 Message Center Show To reduce load on Microsoft 365 services as the World works from home, some features are reducing functionality, sync frequencies reducing and meeting recordings render in lower resolution. It's only a temporary move. Microsoft were planning to increase capacity, but not as suddenly as has occurred in recent weeks. Keep safe. Stay home. Flatten the curve. Also on the show: – Syncing files used by local computer in OneDrive – Structural navigation caching in SharePoint – Update for Office 365 ProPlus – New authentication method for OneDrive on MacOS – Kaizala API usage limited to only org-mapped groups – Microsoft Teams increases…
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Multi-Window Chat for Microsoft Teams #137 – 365 Message Center Show
This week on the 365 Message Center Show Multi-Window chat for Teams is just around the corner, beginning deployment early April. Pop out chat conversations into separate windows. Just in time to manage those multiple conversations as you work from home during #covid19 Also on the show: – SharePoint mobile app to support customized themes – Audience targeting in site, footer and hub navigation – Device Management support for Collaboration Bars in Teams – End User Spam Notification messaging updates – Updated SharePoint start page experience – Notifications in Outlook to obtain Outlook for iOS and Android on mobile devices – Navigation update in desktop and mobile browsers Join Daniel…
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Edit metadata from within the SharePoint Document Library and List #136- 365 Message Center Show
Listen to the podcast as we discuss throttling of Microsoft Teams and more! This week on the 365 Message Center Show Your end users will soon be able to edit SharePoint metadata in a file or list directly from the web part. Users will now have the ability to open and edit file or list item properties directly from the document or list view web parts. Also on the show: – Forms Activity Reports in the Microsoft Admin Center – Outlook mobile updates the roll out of Privacy Settings – Microsoft Secure Score improvement action updates – Native Mode Alignment Tool for Yammer now available – Awareness of Microsoft 365…
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Multilingual Publishing in SharePoint
Multilingual News and Pages in SharePoint In episode 135 of the 365 Message Center Show, I interviewed an expert to discuss multilingual news and pages in SharePoint. If you haven't taken a listen, please go listen to the interview with Sébastien Levert – featured at the end of the episode. I have added an episode player at the bottom of this post for your convenience. Who Needs Multilingual? You need to identify which sites actually need multilingual capabilities. Sébastien suggested that collaboration sites don't necessarily need this capability and you should focus on your Internet communication sites. It doesn't mean you can't have multilingual capabilities on your collaboration sites, but…
