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Back in July, Microsoft announced a slew of features that would be coming to the Teams meeting experience. While some of the functionality, like Together Mode, has arrived, there are other features that are still outstanding. One of those features is “reactions” in Meetings and Microsoft is now saying that this feature will start to…

On December 15, Microsoft announced the preview of Yammer support for guest user access through Azure B2B Collaboration. Yammer joins Microsoft 365 Groups, Teams, SharePoint Online, and Planner as the mainline Microsoft 365 applications supporting guest access. Yammer’s External Collaboration Journey Guest access first appeared in Office 365 Groups in September 2016. At the time,…

PowerBI has quickly become a top platform for data analytics within the Office 365 set of applications. With the ability to consume data from a variety of sources, manipulate, visualize, and publish that data, PowerBI stands out as an easy to use and powerful data visualization platform. With the ability to utilize PowerShell as a…

Unless you have been hiding under an air-gapped rock, the entire computing industry was set on fire this week with the announcement that SolarWinds platform had been compromised.

Use PowerShell to create consistent user objects in Active Directory.

Audit and test Microsoft Defender Controlled Folder Access to help protect your organization against ransomware.

Petri’s GET-IT: Azure DevOps 1-Day virtual conference is a day of free learning dedicated to deep technical content aimed at IT Pros and Developers who are looking to enhance their knowledge and skills for developing, deploying, managing, and scaling their operations. Throughout the day you will hear from Microsoft MVPs and industry experts about how to get…

Photos Enhance the Tenant Directory In the past I have written about the desirability of assigning photos to guest users and how to use PowerShell to assign a default photo to guest users. Nice as it is to have photos for guest users, it’s even more important to have photos for tenant user accounts, especially…

Microsoft has announced their first password manager that is being included in the company’s Authenticator app.

Pode is a unique cross-platform PowerShell web server designed to host REST API’s, web sites, and TCP/SMTP servers. Support for templating languages, middleware, authentication, and SSL certificates. In this article, we explore creating a simple web site served via Pode and how a REST API server may be implemented. Installing Pode and Creating the First…

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…

Microsoft has delayed native notifications in Teams and Fluent icons.