I'm excited for the Microsoft Ignite conference this year. In addition to delivering sessions and podcasting, I will also be helping at the Microsoft Teams booth. On Wednesday from 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM, I will be at the Teams booth, specifically the “At my desk” desk, with Loryan Strant. On Thursday, from 11:30 AM to 1:15 PM, I will be at the “Open Collaboration” desk answering questions and helping you learn more about Microsoft Teams! Please stop by and hang out with us! Check out my short video for a preview of my sessions! Here is my presenting and working schedule – join the podcast, attend the sessions, and…
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Microsoft Ignite 2018 Mobile App
The mobile app is now available for the Microsoft Ignite conference! Well, it is the MSFT Events app, but it updated with the Microsoft Ignite content and your schedule. Check out my quick video below on how you can start using it to build out your conference experience. Download the MSFT Events app here: Apple App Store | Google Play
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SQL Saturday Atlanta BI Edition 2018
Please join me on September 22, 2018 in Atlanta Georgia for another SQL Saturday event – this time a business intelligence edition! The day will be filled with sessions covering Power BI, Azure BI, SSIS, and my session: Using Your On-prem Data in a Cloud World. In my session, we will discuss the benefits of using Microsoft Flow, PowerApps, and Power BI, how those benefits translate to being on-prem, and how we can use the data in Office 365 as well. We will setup a data gateway and walk through using it to connect to data wherever it resides! Click here for more details for the #SQLSatATLBI event, including registration and the…
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365 Message Center Show #62 – Recap
In this week's episode of the 365 Message Center Show, Darrell covered SharePoint Online configuration options of library flows, mass delete notifications for SharePoint Online and OneDrive for Business, and more! 03:25 New ways to configure flows in SharePoint Online – Read announcement MC147261 — A new panel for configuring Microsoft Flows in SharePoint libraries and lists 6:45 Update to TLS 1.2 to prevent potential Skype for Business outage – Read announcement MC147276 — Calling out that you will need to make TLS changes in Skype for Business when in hybrid before October 31, 2018. 8:15 Mass delete notification in SharePoint Online and OneDrive for Business – Read announcement MC147280 — Help thwart malicious actions by…
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365 Message Center Show #61 – Recap
In this week's episode of the 365 Message Center Show, we covered Shared with Me coming to mobile apps, prevent forwarding of meeting invites, apply existing site designs when adding sites to a hub, and more! 03:24 Updated feature: Shared with Me in OneDrive for Business mobile apps – Read announcement MC146805 — Microsoft is bringing the Shared with Me functionality they have been rolling out on the web, to the mobile apps. 4:55 New feature: You can now prevent forwarding of meeting invites in Outlook – Read announcement MC146814 — Meeting organizers will be able to block forwarding of meeting invites. If you are using an older Outlook client or a non-Outlook client,…
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365 Message Center Show #60 – Recap
In this week's episode of the 365 Message Center Show, we covered enhanced anti-spoofing coming to all Exchange Online orgs, update on forced versioning in SharePoint Online and OneDrive for Business, the new Microsoft 365 roadmap, and more! 03:10 Extending coverage of enhanced anti-spoofing protection to all Exchange Online organizations – Read announcement MC146520 — Advanced protection for all! We talked about how it is good to always be talking security in your organization! 6:34 Revised versioning settings in OneDrive for Business and in team sites in SharePoint Online – Read announcement MC146556 — The ability to run the command and turn off the forced versioning for your tenant. This will keep versioning settings…
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365 Message Center Show #59 – Recap
In this week's episode of the 365 Message Center Show, we covered editing Office 365 Group email addresses, deleting your stored data in FindTime, new theme option for SharePoint, and more! 04:44 New feature: Edit the email address of an Office 365 Group – Read announcement MC146221 — Previously we weren't able to change the email address of an Office 365 Group. This caused several problems – one of which being that you cannot remove a custom domain that one of your Office 365 Groups was using. 7:28 Users now have the ability to delete their FindTime data – Read announcement MC146273 — In keeping with all the changes allowing you to control your…
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Set the default open behavior for browser enabled documents
I was recently asked how to configure documents that are in a SharePoint document library to open in their native application on the client computer instead of the browser. This question came from a user in SharePoint Online, but the answer is the same for those using SharePoint Server 2013, 2016, and 2019. There is a feature at the site collection level and a setting on every document library that you use to decide how documents get opened. I searched for an official Microsoft document detailing how this can be accomplished, but I could only find a post from 2014 that said it was for Office Web Apps – a…
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365 Message Center Show #58 – Recap
In this week's episode of the 365 Message Center Show, we cover Live Events in Microsoft 365, changes to the Office 365 Group creation process, Microsoft Teams administration, and more! 02:45 New feature: Live events in Microsoft 365 – Read announcement MC145792 — New wave of communications that leverages Microsoft Teams, Stream, and Yammer. The next generation of town hall meetings and broadcasts 🙂 Darrell shows a demo of setting up a new live event! 17:19 Making some changes to the Office 365 group creation process – Read announcement MC145892 — When creating Office 365 Groups you won't be able to select if members will receive Group email in their inbox, if external people…
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365 Message Center Show #57 – Recap
In this week's episode of the 365 Message Center Show, we cover new audit features in Exchange, adding tagging in Advanced eDiscovery, new insights for anti-phishing, and more! 02:47 Updated feature: Audit features in Exchange – Read announcement MC145014 — Logging will be turned on for you and if you want to turn it off, you will need to do so by running Set-OrganizationConfig -AuditDisabled $true 05:47 New Feature: Advanced eDiscovery: Search – Read announcement MC145200 — Adding tagging easily so that you can get what you need and not just a huge collection of info you don't need 06:57 New feature: Enhanced anti-phishing capabilities for Office 365 Advanced Threat – Read announcement MC145205 — New insights…
