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Microsoft Teams is a powerful collaboration tool within the Office 365 platform. This article describes two business scenarios for using Microsoft Teams within your organization.

Teams and Planner are excellent examples of new functionality that Microsoft can create using the toolkit of parts that exist within Office 365. The two applications have excited and delighted customers since their announcement, but the applications are not yet complete. Some challenges exist that Microsoft really needs to take on to round out functionality and capabilities.

Aidan Finn explains how Microsoft changed the process for upgrading the Hyper-V integration components in a Windows guest OS virtual machine.

Todd Klindt and Shane Young discuss OneDrive for Business SharePoint Sync, the SharePoint Migration Assistant Tool (SMAT) for SharePoint 2013 and how it can help you evaluate your move to Office 365, and Shane gushes over his first use of the FindTime feature.

Check out the new file types, their functions, and locations, which you’ll find in a Windows Server 2016 Hyper-V VM.

Todd and Shane talk about Microsoft FastTrack and all of the great services to help you move from on-prem to Office 365, StaffHub, Windows Management Framework 5.1, and do some good ole fashion whining about the client-side object model (CSOM).

Office 365 Connectors provide a means to connect network data sources such as Twitter, Trello, and RSS feeds to Office 365 Groups and Microsoft Teams. The out-of-the-box connectors work well, but there’s nothing like being able to process your own data, which is exactly what the Incoming Webhook connector allows you to do. In this example, we grab some Office 365 service incident information and post it to a group. All a mere matter of writing some PowerShell code.

Todd and Shane discuss SharePoint Online conditional access, PowerShell, Privacy Dashboard, an AI company, and trolling the patent filings.

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.

Microsoft’s Teams application is resonating well with its users and the general consensus is that this is a good application but it’s not perfect.

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

Get an introduction to the syntax of an Azure JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) file, a template that you can use to quickly deploy a repeatable solution in Microsoft Azure.