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Shane Young and Todd Klindt discuss March patches, Microsoft Identity Management with SharePoint 2016, Shane’s new computer, automatically created Office 365 groups, creation of direct reports groups in Outlook, not using @ in the SAMAccountName, SAM-Account-Name attribute specs, Outlook sign-in assistant, Azure active directory, integration with Github, and SQL data partners.

Shane Young and Todd Klindt talk about the latest Windows 10 Insider build and its cool features, Enterprise Mobility hitting 85 million users, Azure AD, some authentication issues, and Shane gets upset about patches.

Shane Young and Todd Klindt discuss the most popular version of SharePoint, the release of the new SharePoint Online management cmdlets, Azure AD Connect, the SharePoint Framework roadmap, a little Hotmail hacking, their love of BGInfo, and Google Docs.

After an extensive trial, Microsoft is preparing to release the Office 365 Adoption Content Pack to all enterprise tenants. Gaining insight into how people use the Office 365 applications will help tenants maximize their investment in the cloud. However, the content pack is not a silver bullet and won’t make your organization any more effective than it is today.

Microsoft plans to auto-generate Office 365 Groups for managers to enable them to collaborate better with employees. Sounds good, until you realize that the reporting relationships stored in Azure Active Directory drive the process. And we all know how reliable that information really is.

The Microsoft Teams application is now generally available. Lots has been done to improve Teams since its preview release and Microsoft has made many good updates. Some edges remain for Microsoft to work on, but Teams is now more than a valid competitor for Slack in the chat-based collaboration market.

Aidan Finn shares details on when Microsoft plans to release Azure Stack, some partner news, how it will be licensed, and features in the new Technical Preview 3 (TP3) release.

Todd Klindt and Shane Young talk about two-factor authentication hitting home in the last week and we remind you all to go turn it on yourself. Then discuss a new PowerShell Video Shane made that shows you how to copy, move, and delete SharePoint Online files using PowerShell and we hit on new features for OneDrive for Business and AD Group management for Office 365.

Shane and Todd talk about the continued rollout of Conditional Access, the expansion of the file limit to 500MB, in place copying, and downloading multiple files to a zip, and patterns and practices (PNP) PowerShell for SharePoint with its updates and how to get it all installed.

Todd and Shane talk about how to use passwords with PowerShell securely, a new SharePoint Online Web Part that is rolling out, new security and risk features in Office 365, how Power BI finally integrates with SharePoint, and Imposter Syndrome.

Microsoft has moved 400 million Outlook.com mailboxes to an Office 365 infrastructure. Outlook.com mailboxes are now powered by Exchange Online and exploit other parts of the infrastructure like EOP. It’s a good change from a engineering and economic perspective.

This week, Todd and Shane discuss a top 10 list of intranets that SharePoint dominates, some features and announcements for SharePoint Online, new PowerShell cmdlets for SharePoint Online, and how to make PowerShell easier to use if you are on Windows 7 or 8.