As announced last year by Microsoft, Office 365 now allows any user in your organization to purchase a license for Power BI Pro. As Message Center post MC193609 announced, Power BI Pro is available for self-service purchase beginning on January 14th, 2020. The current price for a Power BI Pro license with annual agreement is $9.99 USD. The other Power Platform tools, Power Automate and Power Apps, will be available for self-service purchase by your users on January 28th, 2020. Watch the video below for step-by-step instructions! Why not allow self-service? There are a few reasons why you might want to disable the ability for your users to purchase licenses…
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Office ‘What’s New’ Management #126 – 365 Message Center Show
The What's New feature in Office displays short notifications and links to help for new features arriving in Office for Windows. This management feature is now in preview. Also in this week's show: – Updated Kaizala administration roles – Discover Office files in Outlook for Android – Updated Consent flow for custom Kaizala Action – Microsoft Teams Priority Notifications promotion extended to April 1 – eDiscovery for Yammer – Announce when dial-in users join/leave a Microsoft Teams meeting – Lobby control for dial-in attendees in Microsoft Teams – Updated FindTime back-end service (bumped again for visibility) Join Daniel Glenn and Darrell Webster as they cover the latest messages in the…
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Change Microsoft 365 Message Center Email Settings
Microsoft 365 Message Center Email Keeping up with changes in the Microsoft 365 Message Center is important for administrators and technology adoption specialists within your organization. The Message Center provides a subscription type service so you can receive messages delivered to you on the schedule you desire. Message Center Roles To access the Message Center, you will need to have at least one of the following roles assigned to you: Global admin Global reader Message Center privacy reader Message Center reader Once you have at least one of these roles, you will be able to access the Message Center by navigating to admin.microsoft.com and selecting the Message center link under…
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SharePoint Conference North America Discount Code
The discount code for SharePoint Conference 2020 is: GLENN - register with the code GLENN to save $$$ on #SPC20.
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Email notifications for comments & @mentions in Office #125 – 365 Message Center Show
On episode 125 of The 365 Message Center Show, we'll discuss all 14 new updates in the Microsoft 365 Message Center. – Office 365 Video to Microsoft Stream migration – retirement date and timelines – New features coming to the Office 365 app launcher and Office.com – Outlook on the web, new mobile browser experience – FindTime, updating back-end service – Outlook on the web – Files view – Office 2016 for Mac end of mainstream support – Teams meeting policies update – Custom search results pages for SharePoint sites – Image resizing in the modern SharePoint experience – SharePoint page difference visualization – Global reader experience in new SharePoint…
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SQL Saturday Nashville 2020
My first event of the year will be one of my favorites – SQL Saturday Nashville on January 18th, 2020. The day will be filled with learning and networking – the sessions span many categories: BI Architecture & Management Database Administration PowerShell BI Analytics and Visualization Cloud Database/Application Development & Deployment Data Science Database & Application Development Professional Development My session will focus on keeping up with all the changes that are happening in Office 365. Make sure you register soon before the event fills up! Sponsorships are also available!
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Teams-Outlook Email Integration #124 – 365 Message Center Show
There's 6 new Teams-Outlook email integrations coming. On episode 124 of The 365 Message Center Show, we'll discuss all 6 and the other messages from this past week's delivery. – Clutter for Outlook retirement – Microsoft Search Change to suggested Q&As – Microsoft Teams coming to existing installs for Semi-Annual Channel customers – Fluid Framework Preview for creating Fluid documents – Teams-Outlook email integrations – Retention labels, proof of disposal for records – A new account management experience in the Admin Center Join Daniel Glenn and Darrell Webster as they cover the latest messages in the #Microsoft365 Message Center. We’d like to thank our sponsor – Valo Intranet. Like us,…
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Updated SharePoint start page experience #123 – 365 Message Center Show
This week, we're live from SharePoint Fest Chicago #SPFestChi. The SharePoint start page will be tidied up, organizing featured and suggested sites into tabs. This makes room for more featured links, your recent documents and saved for later pages. Does this make the SharePoint start page more functional? Daniel and Darrell discuss this and more this week: – Handling repeated phishers in #Microsoft Forms – Meeting chat notifications in #MicrosoftTeams – Retirement of #SharePoint classic and #Delve blogs – Add participants to Teams meeting chat – File upload for Forms – Commercial Cloud Trial updates for Microsoft Teams Join Daniel and Darrell as they cover the latest messages in the #Microsoft365 Message…
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Save Money by Easily Analyzing Azure Spending
I have a subscription in Microsoft Azure that I use for hosting virtual machines, SQL data, and a few Azure functions. A few months ago, I went over my normal amount of spend for the period and I didn't know why. I am very consistent with my usage and have the same bill pretty much every month. Finding Help In my investigation to find what caused the spike in Azure costs, I was introduced to the new product from ShareGate called Overcast. You may know ShareGate from doing migrations of data into SharePoint and Office 365. However ShareGate has introduced new products recently, and Overcast promises to simplify cost management…
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SharePoint list Modern settings #122 – 365 Message Center Show
Enable and disable column totals in the modern user list experience. Create a document view for list data featuring column formatting. Daniel and Darrell discuss this and more this week: – Windows Server 2008/R2 and 2012/R2 end of support for Office 365 Pro Plus. – Power BI planned maintenance December 14th – SharePoint list Modern Settings – Office 365 Message Encryption (OME) updates to enhance email authenticity – SharePoint team sites ‘Next steps' panel We also respond to a discussion on Twitter about #MSIgnite feedback. “We don't want to hear the opinions of others” and want to hear Microsoft tell them what to do in MSIgnite sessions. https://twitter.com/_achu/status/1200593596409425922?s=20 Join Daniel…
