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Today, I was approached by a peer with a particularly interesting situation–blocking a particular type of system-generated message from hitting the mailbox. In particular, a voicemail.
Voicemail messages in Exchange Online / Teams Phone world are delivered via email to the recipient’s mailbox and generally include the voicemail as an audio attachment in addition to a transcription of the message. … [ Continue reading ]
Last week, while I was working with a customer to on-board OneDrive and Teams, we started a discussion around governance. I had an older template that I had put together a few years ago for another government customer, but I decided to revisit it and update it with current controls.… [ Continue reading ]
And it’s a wrap! Thanks to our great team for working tirelessly to make this an exciting and complete book covering the entire Teams experience.
Thanks to everyone on our scoping, authoring and review team (Yura, Grant, Angel, and Alan) who helped get this book over the finish line. … [ Continue reading ]
Earlier today, I was working with a customer to begin enabling Viva Connections.
One of our prerequisites is ensuring the root site is the home site and that it is configured as a modern Communications site. For customers that provisioned their SharePoint environments several years ago but never really invested time in it, it the default SharePoint site may still be a legacy classic team site.… [ Continue reading ]
Apologies for the delay–but with the advent of Operator Connect and a few other new features, we wanted to make sure we brought you the most up-to-date desk reference for configuring Microsoft Teams. We’ve also included a great flow chart on the number porting process, which we think will be really helpful to organizations starting up with cloud voice!… [ Continue reading ]
Greetings!
While working with a new customer this week, I was reviewing the Azure AD Connect prerequisites, and it turns out we have updated the prereq list as well made some information public about what the installation wizard checks for.
As such, I have updated the tool.… [ Continue reading ]
Recently, while working on a book, I needed to take screenshots. I was moving across multiple devices and working with other authors on this project, so it was important that all screenshots be taken from the same window size.
As long as you close all of your Edge browser windows, you can fire up a new instance with command line parameters that will configure it for you.… [ Continue reading ]
For folks who want to get started on bringing your intranet into Teams, here’s a quick take on configuring Viva Connections, including screenshots, tips, and the ever popular “what happens to the end users” question answered.
Buckle up.
Viva Connections, from our marketing material, is “a desktop and mobile experience that brings together relevant news, conversations, and resources in one place for your organization.”… [ Continue reading ]
Hi, everyone!
In a previous post, I built a function on how to get an MD5 hash from a file stored in memory. I had a particular need this holiday season to compute a hash of a text input string, so I thought I would share my solution with you:
Function Get-HashFromString($String)
{
$md5hash = New-Object -TypeName System.Security.Cryptography.MD5CryptoServiceProvider… [ Continue reading ]
Seeing as how we’re just a few days away from the launch of another title, I wanted to release a teaser chapter for our updated and upcoming MS-900: Microsoft 365 Certified Fundamentals exam prep guide.
This was another great team effort with Yura Lee, Marcos Zanre, and the entire Packt publishing team (Romy Dias, Aamir Ahmed, Prachi Sawant, Vaidehi Sawant, and Shazeen Iqbal). … [ Continue reading ]
Earlier this evening, a former peer asked me about trying to bulk delete items from the Drafts folder on a customer’s Exchange Server 2010. While Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 reached end of support in October 2020, it still will work (though we certainly don’t recommend keeping it around, as it’s no longer receiving regular maintenance, support, or security updates).… [ Continue reading ]
It’s well-known that our Government Community Cloud instance of Office 365 doesn’t support emailing a channel. This can be problematic when you are attempting to schedule a channel meeting and include recipients not on the platform. What ends up happening is the recipient can actually receive an NDR (because they can’t send the meeting acceptance back to the channel).… [ Continue reading ]
Hey!
It’s been a while since I’ve updated this tool. One of my peers, Didier Akakpo, pointed out that we have a new endpoint to add for Self-Service Password Reset Writeback.
As such, I’ve updated the tool to include this endpoint under $OptionalResources for Commercial and GCC-Moderate tenants.… [ Continue reading ]
Welp … just a quick post to note here that we wrapped all the writing, editing, testing, re-writing, screenshotting, more updating, and exam item conjuring early, so our latest rev of the MS-900 exam prep guide (covering the updated 2021 exam skills outline) will be available for delivery starting December 30, 2021 (about two weeks early).… [ Continue reading ]
Hey, everyone! Just got the notification that our labor of love, the Microsoft 365 Certified Fundamentals MS-900 Exam Guide Second Edition (man, that’s a mouthful) is available for pre-order!
In this update, Shrek and Donkey are off on another whirlwind adventur–wait, that’s not it.… [ Continue reading ]