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We’re doing a twice-monthly interview show on Petri.com that is dedicated to covering topics of interest to our tech-professional audience. We have branded this show “MJFChat.” In my role as Petri’s Community Magnate, I will be interviewing a variety of IT-savvy technology folks. Some of these will be Petri contributors; some will be tech-company employees;…

A new Microsoft support article clarifies premium features used by Office 365 Groups that require premium licenses. While good to know when you have to pay extra, it is baffling why some of the features fall into the premium category and why so many licenses are needed. The solution is to buy the Enterprise Mobility and Security suite. Or just pay for the extra licenses.

Jasper Oosterveld, Microsoft MVP en Consultant, is reviewing the new SharePoint Administration Center in Office 365.

At Ignite 2019, Microsoft announced a public preview of the company’s upcoming Fluid Framework. Since that announcement, the noise around the framework has been nearly silent aside from an early, but very limited look, at the functionality a few months back. This week at Build 2020, the company is once again talking about Fluid Framework and the…

New Technologies at the Center of Outlook’s Future Outlook fans would be forgiven for thinking that all the oxygen in the Microsoft 365 collaboration ecosystem is being sucked out by Teams). But then a series of videos created for the virtual Ignite 2020 conference revealed that there’s life in this venerable product yet (given a…

Microsoft says Office 365 is stable, secure, and trustworthy. But then something happens to make people less sure that Office 365 really is what Microsoft says it is. To see if we can resolve some of the doubts in peoples’ minds, Mary-Jo Foley is going to question me about some of the seamier sides of Office 365 on March 4. The audio and transcript will be available soon afterwards.

Anyone who is using Microsoft Teams has been waiting patiently for guest access and while the company isn’t saying anything publicly, there is progress on this feature.

MC690608 – Microsoft is updating the app names for Project for the web, Project Teams tab, and Project Power app to “Planner (Project)” – all existing functionality across these apps will remain the same.   When this will happen: This change will start rolling out in late January 2024 and should complete in early February 2024….

A New Start for Exchange PowerShell Last November, Microsoft announced a refresh of the Exchange Online PowerShell module at the Ignite 2019 conference. The big change was the introduction of nine cmdlets built on REST APIs to replace older cmdlets like Get-Mailbox and Get-MailboxStatistics. These cmdlets have been part of Exchange PowerShell since its introduction…

Last month, Microsoft announced at its Ignite 2022 conference that a Microsoft 365 app would replace the existing Office app on Windows, mobile, and the web. A new message posted on the Microsoft 365 Admin Center yesterday indicates that the new Microsoft 365 web app has started rolling out this week, with Windows and mobile…