At Quest, we are aware that our customers and partners experience many Teams chat migration challenges, particularly when it comes to migrating private chats. I explored these challenges in my post on Practical365.com. We evaluated the available options…
A fundamental component of effective meetings is the feeling of togetherness. We’ll explore Microsoft’s attempt to improve that feeling with Microsoft Teams Together Mode, and how and when it’s best to use this capability in your meetings.…
If your organization is looking to migrate from Slack to Teams, be prepared for a few battles along the way. Slack devotees tend to be passionate about their platform, and winning hearts and minds can be a big challenge.
The reasons why organizations…
The Experts Conference (TEC) is back – virtually and for free. With practical Office 365 and Active Directory security education, TEC will be the Microsoft training event of the year. You’ll be able to apply what you learn the moment you get back into…
The one thing we all learned in 2020 is that IT never stops. As challenging as it was maintaining IT services throughout the pandemic, it was great seeing how our industry as a whole sailed through with flying colors. One reason for our industry’s success…
Microsoft Teams migrations are critical for many organizations that are considering, or in the middle of a merger, acquisition, and/or divestiture. With Teams rapidly becoming the go-to hub of collaboration, communication and planning activities, it’s…
With the release of Microsoft Teams, many organizations have been exploring what a Slack-to-Teams migration would entail. Only recently has Microsoft provided APIs to allow the ingestion of data types. This has left organizations looking to undertake…
Microsoft Teams is an extraordinarily powerful collaboration tool. Today, we’ll focus on Microsoft Teams guest access — one of the most important features in Teams.
Guest access is a necessity for even the most guarded Teams groups. For the…
In this blog post, we’ll explore the various benefits Microsoft Lists offers and walk through how to migrate from Excel to Microsoft Lists embedded into Microsoft Teams.
There are many reasons why Excel spreadsheets are not the holy grail for tracking…
One of the key staples of group collaboration is using shared calendaring functionality. In this blog, we will explore the first incarnation of Microsoft Teams shared calendar functionality with the release of the Microsoft Teams Channel Calendar app…
Previously, we explained how to set a custom background image in Microsoft Teams. Now, we’ll focus on customizing Microsoft Teams video backgrounds.
With the world relying on virtual meetings as the go-to form of communication, Microsoft Teams users…
In this article, we’ll discuss how to add custom Microsoft Teams background images and some key recommendations and use cases.
For many of us around the world, our homes have become our workspace and virtual meetings the go-to method for collaboration…
Microsoft Teams security is a hot topic. Four reasons are making this a top priority:
Remember the eight predictions I made for 2021? I hope you’ve enjoyed my subsequent posts detailing the first six:
To start things off, how about some numbers?
30 speakers, 24 sessions, 2 keynotes and 6,967 eyes on sessions (aggregated across both days) with 1,719 attendees across 26 live Q&A Team Meetings. That’s what The Experts Conference (TEC) 2020 virtual…
A few posts back, I revealed my eight predictions for 2021. Since then, I’ve dived into the details of the first five:
Today we live in a fast-moving world. Mergers and acquisitions are occurring at a record pace. Impacts of the recent pandemic are only likely to increase this trend. Over the past several years many companies have made the move to Office 365 for their…
Many organizations planning to make it easier for their employees to work remotely. To assist with this effort, they planning to migrate their networked file system to Office 365. Typically, they are looking at one or more of the following targets: SharePoint…
If you’re still denying that Teams exists in your organization, then you have a lot of catching up to do; in fact, even those organization who know Teams is in use are having trouble keeping pace with governance and compliance.
In my 6th 2020 prediction…
The meteoric rise of Microsoft Teams, and the apps users freely downloading into it, will create more access vulnerabilities for your network. In part 3 of a 7 part series diving in-depth in to my 2020 predictions (see all 7 predictions here ), we’ll…
Enterprises will finally rethink how they organize their Office 365 administration team to keep pace with its rapid changes and interdependent security model.
In my 5th 2020 prediction ( see all 7 predictions here), we’ll discuss why the legacy model…
First, who would ever have guessed that Microsoft SharePoint Conference would come back? And who would have predicted Microsoft Teams would have overtaken Slack when most of us still don’t know what it is!
In part 10 of my blog series 10 predictions…
Anyone who says there’s no psychology in Information Technology and Adoption, needs to think again.
Let’s take a step back. 18 months ago, we struggled to get users to adopt SharePoint. And when I say “adopt” I don’t necessarily mean evangelists…
Over the last couple of months, Microsoft Teams has taken the spotlight, and not necessarily in the best way. Before we delve into that topic, let’s first explore what Microsoft Teams really is.
What is Microsoft Teams?Microsoft Teams is a chat…
Microsoft Teams has quickly become the ultimate collaboration and teamwork application.
As explained in a previous post titled, “Everything You Need to Know about Microsoft Teams to Get Started,” it took some time for me to come to grips with exactly…
