Microsoft 365

With many companies starting to move to Teams, Matt Wade has a simple suggestion to expedite the user-adoption process.

At ShiftHappens this week, we had a chance to sit down with Pouneh Kaufman and Sara Bush about the steps you need to take to migrate to Teams.

Tony Redmond and Paul Thurrott discuss Teams momentum, Teams as the new Outlook, OneDrive, and hybrid computing at AvePoint’s Shift Happens conference in Washington D.C.

In Washington, D.C, at Shift Happens, Mary Jo Foley and Tony Redmond sat down to talk about Office 365, Teams, SharePoint and what’s next for Office 365.

Do you need to backup Office 365 data? The question isn’t simple because technology changes all the time and it’s hard to backup some applications like Teams and Planner because APIs don’t exist. The important thing is for companies to review what data they use, the features available to them, and then figure out if any gaps exist.

This week’s snippets span the tenth anniversary of PowerShell, a survey indicating that Office 365 has a solid lead in deployments over G Suite, Windows 10 Mobile finally gets the new authenticator app, Outlook starts to look like mini-CRM, why dynamic groups don’t work for Teams and Planner, and an interesting document from Microsoft describing Office 365 tenant isolation.

Russell Smith looks at the many issues with Microsoft’s OneDrive for Business sync client, and why third-party solutions don’t step up to the challenge for resolving those issues.

With the RSA Conference 2015 as a backdrop, Microsoft has announced some new security improvements and features for Office 365.

Microsoft announced this week that all Office 365 commercial customers are now getting access to basic mobile device management (MDM) functionality without having to pay for separate services like Intune, which is a core component of Microsoft’s Enterprise Mobility Suite. The functionality is free, but it can also be integrated with existing Intune and Azure…

Last November, Microsoft revealed that it would be rebranding the next generation of its Lync products and services to Skype for Business in order to align it with its popular consumer-oriented messaging solution. That change starts this week with the launch of a Skype for Business client preview, and it will continue in April and…