Anticipated release: Preview in Q2 2018, with general availability in the second half of the year. Please review the TAP program post, Microsoft is looking for more customers to help validate this release. Microsoft has not released much information on this release, other than it will focus on security, compliance, usability and manageability. Perhaps there will be... Continue Reading →
Microsoft Teams: What’s New and Known Issues
This is a May 2018 update on the added features and known issues with Microsoft Teams. What's New The original list (shown in italics) came from the Microsoft TechCommunity (link), I have added my comments on the usefulness I have found so far with these. Send a message from the command box. You can now send a... Continue Reading →
Windows 10, Redstone 4 released
Microsoft continues their march with semiannual release schedules for Windows 10 in their "as-a-service" model. For three years they have followed their release scheduled in the spring and another in the second in the fall. But inevitably, there are a handful of users who experience difficulty during the upgrade. This is due to the... Continue Reading →
Microsoft Office 2019, the new (last?) perpetual desktop suite.
It seems Microsoft is more than ready to cut over and remove all desktop application products, but realizes the world may not be quite ready for this. You have time to prepare, but don't hold off too long. The company seems to be creating these constantly updated, cloud products and stepping back and releasing yet... Continue Reading →
Microsoft Teams (+ Skype) Roadmap for 2018
Microsoft Teams (+ Skype) Roadmap for this year will be long, full of high traffic and will contain several pull over sightseeing stops along the way. Microsoft is placing a lot of resources and time behind the Teams platform of products, becoming the ntegral piece of its enterprise collaboration portfolio. There are so many layers... Continue Reading →
Office 365 Security Resources
Below is an interesting list of security resources I found relating to Office 365. I am just copying them over in this post and providing the credit. Later, I will undoubtably, be using a few or more and then commenting on their value in future posts. Office 365 Security Resources, Practical 365 is a leading site... Continue Reading →
Change in Security Settings Tightens Outlook Groups
Microsoft is changing its default security settings, as it has before with Windows Server, for Outlook and SharePoint Online groups to make them private by default, instead of public. These changes will not change settings already in place, but will for those new site deployments. After listening to your feedback, we are changing the privacy... Continue Reading →
The end of the road for Microsoft’s OneNote Desktop?
OneNote 2016 desktop product will be the last of its kind, according to Microsoft. The company is planning to stop building its OneNote desktop application and is putting its development efforts behind the OneNote App for Windows 10 going forward. The desktop version will receive updates and security patches until Oct. 14, 2025. Which is... Continue Reading →
Skype migrating to a component of Microsoft Teams
Over the next several months Microsoft will be unveiling a continual vision for intelligent communications to transform calling and meeting experiences. Microsoft Teams will continue to be the hub as many of Microsoft's former products (ex. Skype) and recent products (Azure Cognitive Services) are integrated or 'consumed'. Microsoft is ushering Teams, its collaboration tool, into... Continue Reading →
