Today (31/03/21), Microsoft have made public the steps and script to generate the Microsoft Viva Connections for Desktop. In this post we will go through how to package and deploy the app for Microsoft Teams. What is Microsoft Viva? Microsoft Viva is "an employee experience platform" which is essentially a collection of solutions which all …
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There are various methods for managing Microsoft/Office 365 licensing for our users. We can manually assign licenses as we always could, but now we can also use the fantastic Group-based licensing feature to add some standardisation to our licensing deployments and we also have certain licenses available under self-service purchase. A new addition to the …
When we assess a tenant to tenant migration for Office 365, there are a variety of methods and tools available to us. Depending on the budget and requirements we have during the migration, the tools we use can change drastically. For the key workloads (Exchange, SharePoint, Teams, OneDrive) in Office 365, I have broken down …
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Self-Service purchases of Microsoft 365 products were a controversial addition to Microsoft 365 when it originally launched a few years back. Granting the ability to end users to purchase products outside of admin control or the existing subscription is great from a digital transformation and usability perspective, however, in highly secure and governed environments, presents …
With so many organizations moving to Microsoft Teams in the past year in order to support a remote working scenario, many are beginning to move to Microsoft Teams in place of their legacy on-premises phone system or have already moved. When considering leveraging Microsoft Teams for calling functionality, there are two options: Calling Plans and …
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A major part of any digital transformation programme, particularly involving Microsoft 365 is ensuring that you have allowed for sufficient communication and business change management. Too often IT departments deploy a solution with the best of intentions but that solution is deployed to meet a technical requirement while not considering that users are being asked …
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When we need to configure calling settings for Microsoft Teams through PowerShell, we traditionally needed to use the Skype Online Connector PowerShell Module. This was a pain for a few reasons, particularly when configuring automation. If we wanted to connect to both Teams and Skype, we would need to authenticate twice like the below example: …
This post is part of the overall MS-500 Exam Study Guide. Links to each topic as they are posted can be found here. This post will cover the following exam topics listed under the “Manage Data Privacy Regulation Compliance” section: Administer Compliance ManagerReview Compliance Manager reportsCreate and perform Compliance Manager assessments and action items Administer Compliance …
This post is part of the overall MS-500 Exam Study Guide. Links to each topic as they are posted can be found here. This post will cover the following exam topics listed under the “Manage Data Privacy Regulation Compliance” section: Plan for regulatory compliance in Microsoft 365Review and interpret GDPR dashboards and reportsManage Data Subject Requests …
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