Microsoft Teams Matches Skype Functionality, Ready For The Road Ahead

Microsoft says that Teams now matches Skype for Business Online's feature set but the company still won't say when they will decommission Skype.

Aug 24, 2018 | Brad Sams

New GDPR Data Loss Prevention Template Needs Some Tweaking

Microsoft has done a good job of helping Office 365 tenants prepare for GDPR, but the best intentions sometimes run into difficulties. Such as what you might find with the new GDPR Data Loss Prevention policy template, which does an excellent job of finding things like European tax numbers... but sometimes too good a job.

Aug 23, 2018 | Tony Redmond

Microsoft's Killing its Sway iOS App

Microsoft is ending support for its Sway iOS app but the company says that they are not sunsetting the entire platform...yet.

Aug 22, 2018 | Brad Sams

Removing the License for an Office 365 Feature with PowerShell

The licensing model for Teams is now per-user instead of tenant-wide. That's fine if you leave everyone enabled for Teams, but removing licenses one at a time for a set of users through the Office 365 Admin Center is a tiresome and boring operation. PowerShell can help ease the pain, and here's a script to do the job.

Aug 21, 2018 | Tony Redmond

Ahead of Ignite, Microsoft will Combine Office and Microsoft 365 Roadmaps

Ahead of Microsoft's Ignite conference, the company will combine the roadmaps for Office 365 and Microsoft 365 signaling that these two products will continue to be deeply intertwined.

Aug 20, 2018 | Brad Sams