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New Office 365 Admin Center Takes Over

The advent of the New Year is a catalyst for change. One change that’s been coming for a while is the “new” Office 365 Admin Center. Now it’s time for the “old” to be swapped out and the “new” to be used everywhere. The change is good. At least, I think it is.

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Outlook Client Updates Stall the Focused Inbox

On January 20, Microsoft unexpectedly updated their original blog post from July announcing the Focused Inbox with information about client updates to support the feature. The update contains some answers to questions why people have not been able to use the much-trumpeted feature.

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How to Start a Threaded Conversation in Slack

Learn how to start a threaded conversation in Slack.

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Microsoft Finally Adds an Undo Send Feature to OWA

Microsoft has finally provided an effective method to allow users to recall messages. Outlook’s Recall Message function usually doesn’t work, but OWA’s new Undo Send will stop messages that should never be sent. Five seconds might be too short to realize that you have made a mistake and should stop an outbound message, but ten seconds is about right. And if you are really indecisive, you can take up to 30 seconds to decide whether a message should go.

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Learning React JS in the SharePoint Framework

Learning the React framework for SharePoint Framework (SPFX) development is a good idea because the SPFX tooling can automatically generate React components. Find out how to get started with the React framework.

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SharePoint Podcast Episode #322: The Ten Best Ways to Listen to Todd Klindt’s Podcast

Todd and Shane cover the Microsoft Band’s new replacement policy, Microsoft Flow’s new services, Office Online Server adding support for Azure, why the cmd prompt will be with us forever, new PowerShell, and the downside of self-driving cars.

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Chrome Makes SharePoint Look Insecure

An update to SharePoint Online for some Office 365 tenants clashed with Google’s determination to move from SHA-1 to SHA-2 as the basis for securing web sites. The symptom is that Chrome flags SharePoint sites as “Not Secure”, which is a pretty worrying thing for an Office 365 administrator to see. Fortunately, Microsoft is reversing the update out to fix the problem.

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Microsoft StaffHub – Another Use for Office 365 Groups

Microsoft StaffHub is a new Office 365 application built from bits of Office 365 Groups, Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, Azure, and Teams. The concept is simple – provide an application to allow the schedules of workers to be managed through a combination of browser and mobile interfaces. It’s an idea that will be popular with some Office 365 tenants, but it’s probably of limited interest to the majority.

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Unifying Data Loss Prevention across Office 365

You might be familiar with the DLP policies available in Exchange or SharePoint. These policies work, but they are workload-specific. Microsoft has embarked on a journey to replace them with Unified DLP policies, which provide protection across multiple Office 365 workloads. The new policies are not yet as functional as those available for Exchange, but they will get there.

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SharePoint Podcast Episode #321: Not Again

Shane discusses building a SharePoint 2013 BI Farm on Azure in SouthEast Asia, solar roads, and PowerShell training.

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