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Office 365 Groups (and Teams) can quickly become obsolete, but administrators need some help to find the underused groups. PowerShell comes to the rescue through a mixture of checks against the group mailbox, Office 365 audit log, and Teams compliance records. A nice HTML report is the result – and isn’t that always welcome.

Aidan Finn discusses Microsoft’s recent announcement that Accelerated Networking is now generally available for Windows and Linux virtual machines running in Azure.

Jasper Oosterveld, Modern Workplace Consultant and Microsoft MVP, announced and reviews three new Yammer features.

We can use PowerShell for SPO by using any of the development environments provided by Microsoft. If you ask my recommendation about what tool to use, I would say Windows PowerShell ISE or Visual Studio Code. Finally, there are also third-party tools to run PowerShell scripts and modules for SPO.

Many differences exist between the on-premises and cloud worlds. The Files folder is one of Office 365’s unique features. The folder exists in user mailboxes to hold information about “file-oriented experiences.” As it turns out, apps like Delve, SharePoint, and Office 365 Groups like to display file information to users, but they need a fast and efficient way to get to that data. Files is the answer!

Aidan Finn discusses App Services on Linux, what this service is, how it differs to the Windows Server offering, and what you can do with the Linux alternative.

See how you can handle the biggest disaster risks for small and medium-sized businesses before they impact your business.

You know that Office 365 Groups have a mailbox and that the mailbox holds conversations and the group calendar. But many other folders exist in a group mailbox. Some are used for internal purposes, some by clients. And sometimes you want to look to see what those folders hold, as when some mail might have been misdirected to Junk Email.

As Microsoft continues to evolve its business model, it is frequently compared to IBM but is that such a bad thing?

In this Ask the Admin, Russell Smith explains how this mechanism works and how you can change the way that it works.