Microsoft Teams

Tons of Spring Updates in the Office 365 space to cover this month. As always, it will be the news you need with the two cents you don’t.

Microsoft’s Teams is off to a strong start but the company needs to be aggressive with feature deployment and not become complacent upon its success.

Microsoft has unveiled the features roadmap for its Teams platform which includes further Cortana integration, Cloud recording and a lot more.

Microsoft has made the news official, Skype for Business will be going away and Teams is the new future for communication.

Microsoft has announced that they have begun rolling out Guest access for Teams and that over 125,000 organizations are now using the platform.

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.

Microsoft Teams has reached general availability and with more than 50,000 organizations using the platform, it is off to a strong start.

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.

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.

In this how-to article I show you how easy it is to connect an existing Office 365 Group to a team within Microsoft Teams.