Technology Writer for Petri, focused on Microsoft Teams and UC news. A nine-time Microsoft MVP, author of several Exchange Server books and regular conference speaker, including at Microsoft conferences including Ignite, TechEd and Future Decoded.
Steve has worked with Microsoft technology for over 20 years beginning and has been writing about Exchange and the earliest iterations of Office 365 since its inception. As Principal Technology Strategist at Content+Cloud, Steve helps customers plan their digital transformation journey and gets hands on with Microsoft Teams, Exchange and Identity projects.
In the first four parts of my occasional series on Microsoft 365 backups, I've been fairly cynical. In my final part in the series, I'm looking at Microsoft 365 backup solutions from an angle that provides value; self-service restore. Firstly, as a quick recap if you missed the first four parts: Microsoft 365 doesn't have a… Read More
If you are aiming for a roll-your-own approach to creating a backup of your data in Microsoft 365, the options are not great for a build-your-own solution. However, when it comes to the configuration of your tenant, there are good options. Even if you’ve bought a backup product for Microsoft 365 or are relying on… Read More
In the last two articles in this series, I’ve pointed out some of the flaws in the arguments put forward by backup vendors for why you’ll back up Microsoft 365. There’s actually a good reason for using a backup product that they don’t often suggest, and it is the one that actually matters most on… Read More
So, you’ve decided to jump straight into the deep-end and backup your data in Microsoft 365. But first, what does that even mean? Are you planning to back up user’s workstations to OneDrive or embrace the way Microsoft 365 is architected to provide similar or better capacities than a traditional backup product could provide? If… Read More
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When people talk about the security of data in Microsoft 365, invariably phrase you’ll hear – and I don’t know who coined it – “the cloud is just someone else’s computer”. When someone says it to me, I literally have to stop myself from saying “…but actually” before we both explode into memes. Microsoft 365… Read More
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Unless you have been living under a rock for the last week, you could not have missed that the Microsoft 365 world has been abuzz with worry after Exchange Server 2010-2019 succumbed to zero-day exploits, believed to being used by a group known as HAFNIUM. These exploits are allowing an attacker to compromise Exchange and… Read More
FileWall for Exchange is designed to work using Microsoft’s Graph API and integrates directly with the service
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If you don’t use something often, then you might even forget it exists. When I read that reactions in Outlook are rolling out soon, I had to go and check that the like button, which launched in 2015, still existed in Outlook on the web. The like button still exists and was one of the… Read More
Microsoft has done well to ensure that Teams provides a consistent experience across the desktop client, web browser, or mobile apps. However, the web version of Teams lacks several desktop features for meetings, in particular the ability to see the video feed for more than one person at a time. New features are launching in… Read More
Two new features arrive in Microsoft Teams in January and will roll out over the next week or so.
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Microsoft is finally bringing Presenter view to Teams when you share a PowerPoint deck.
Shared Calendars are available in Teams but there are a few limitations, here is how to get started.
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In a move that mirrors in-person meetings, Microsoft has released breakout rooms for Microsoft Teams. Breakout rooms were originally expected to arrive in October and after a delay, they have finally arrived in December. It is a wise assumption that the delay was to listen to feedback from customers who were using the feature in… Read More
This post was sponsored by Kemp Microsoft’s offering in the single sign-on space for several years has been Azure Active Directory, which serves as the underlying directory service for Microsoft 365. This service is also widely used as the SSO and provisioning service compatible with most third-party SaaS applications such as ServiceNow, Salesforce, Atlassian, and many more. In a surprising turnaround from… Read More
Announced back in May 2020, Team templates arrived in Microsoft 365 tenants over the last couple of weeks. Teams templates allow administrators to define the basic information architecture (IA) of a Microsoft team, including the channels and application tabs, along with relevant information in the template to help users understand each team’s purpose. The key… Read More