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Steve is 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. Steve helps customers plan their digital transformation journey and gets hands on with Microsoft Teams, Exchange and Identity projects.

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How and When to Use Breakout Rooms in Teams

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

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…

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How Azure AD and a Load Balancer Can Simplify App Delivery

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

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…

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Getting Started with Custom Templates in Teams

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

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…

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How To Enable Advanced Teams Audio Features Including Hard Mute

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

Microsoft Teams has advanced audio controls and here is how you can use them during your next meeting or presentation.

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Teams Education Drops Support for Cloud Recording in Stream for A1 Customers

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

A surprising change from Microsoft arrived at the end of August and it has caught many schools returning for the new term by surprise and prevented some from using cloud recording features.

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How To Broadcast Teams Meetings Like a Pro with NDI and OBS

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

Looking to use Teams with OBS and broadcast your video streams? This is how you can accomplish that task.

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How to Identify Unsupported Teams Devices using Endpoint Manager

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

If you need to understand how to find older devices that will no longer work with Teams, here is how you can identify those assets.

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How to Configure Lobby Meeting Options in Teams

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

In the midst of the many updates for Microsoft Teams, you could be excused for missing one interesting option that began rolling-out this month that is aimed at making it easier for people to manage their meetings.

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Choosing the Right Free Version of Teams

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

If you are signing up for a free account to use with Microsoft Teams, you might see a few options available. This might seem confusing compared to Zoom and similar apps, but there’s a good reason for it.

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Understanding the New Teams Meeting Features and Experience

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

Microsoft’s updated Teams meeting expereince is rolling out but to get the most out of the new UI, here’s what you need to know.

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Understanding the new Granular Permissions for App Access to Teams data

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

Microsoft announced in the message center this week that resource-specific content will roll-out to tenants, beginning mid-August. This opens the door for installing richer applications than you would have previously considered approving and allows self-service installation by Team owners. Teams applications based on the Graph API to read and write content within a Team, such…

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Understanding the New Teams Search Functionality

Last Update: Sep 04, 2024

Microsoft has improved contextual search in Teams but its implementation can be hard to understand.

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