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What’s new in Microsoft Teams Q4 – 2022

January 12, 2023July 17, 2023Brian Alderman

Microsoft Teams is an ever-evolving service that has become the primary desktop application for users to collaborate and communicate in. With that in mind, Microsoft is investing a lot of resources, both financially and physically to ensure the product continues to evolve. With there being so many changes, it is important to keep abreast of the updates and new features to ensure your organization is taking full advantage of this powerful app. This quarterly post on Microsoft Teams will be useful for understanding the highlights of the new features and updates, specific to the Microsoft Teams desktop app and Teams on the web. Calls … Read More

Introducing and Exploring Microsoft Forms

December 13, 2022July 30, 2024Brian Alderman

Using Microsoft Forms, you can create inviting surveys, quizzes, and polls that are accessible from nearly any device, and then view the results in real-time. There are analytical tools to summarize the information gathered from the form and that optionally export these results to Excel for use with other analytical tools. Forms are used to gather feedback, conduct surveys, conduct polls, and much more. These forms can be created in OneDrive, as Web-based, inside an Excel workbook, within a OneNote notebook, and as a tab in a channel in Microsoft Teams. It’s extremely easy to create and deploy a form with just a few mouse clicks using an out-of-box template… Read More

Introducing and Exploring Quizzes using Microsoft Forms

November 20, 2022July 30, 2024Brian Alderman

If you want to gather real-time information, design a quiz in Microsoft Teams using Forms. You can use quizzes to assess learning, get feedback, and research your team’s concerns. When creating quizzes, you can choose that they be Web-based, inside OneNote notebook, or as a tab in a channel in Microsoft Teams. This article provides the basic steps necessary to create a web-based quiz, which, as you’ll see, is pretty similar to creating a form but with a few important differences. Log into Microsoft 365 and click the Forms option located on the waffle in the top left-hand corner of M365. Click on the drop-down arrow on +New Form and choose New Quiz. Type the… Read More

What’s new in Microsoft Teams Q3 – 2022

October 21, 2022July 17, 2023Brian Alderman

Integrating Microsoft Forms with Microsoft Teams

October 9, 2022July 30, 2024Brian Alderman

Managing Microsoft Teams using PowerShell

September 18, 2022July 30, 2024Brian Alderman

Microsoft Teams can potentially have tens of thousands of users, thousands of teams, and thousands of channels, and the ability to automate and bulk manage these teams, channels, and team members means that it’s imperative to have an on-the-ball administrator. It’s helpful to understand how nicely PowerShell integrates with Microsoft Teams and how you can use PowerShell to interact with Teams and generate scripts to perform some of the more common – and possibly tedious – tasks associated with Teams. Microsoft Teams PowerShell provides several cmdlets for managing all aspects of Microsoft Teams, and the Teams PowerShell module offers three great features: Support for authentication options, like credentials and access… Read More

Managing SharePoint Online using PowerShell

September 3, 2022July 30, 2024Brian Alderman

The powerful collaboration tool SharePoint Online (SPO) is deeply integrated with Microsoft Teams and OneDrive. A SharePoint administrator needs to carefully automate, bulk manage, and configure these sites, users, and groups because it’s possible that tens of thousands of SharePoint sites each have thousands of users accessing them. Most of those users are managed using groups. To perform some of the more common SPO administrative tasks, you need a thorough understanding of how PowerShell integrates with SPO and how to use PowerShell to manage sites, users, and groups and how to generate PowerShell scripts. PowerShell for SharePoint Online has several cmdlets for managing all aspects of SharePoint Online. The SPO… Read More

Microsoft Teams and SharePoint Online: How are they integrated?

August 24, 2022July 30, 2024Brian Alderman

You’re probably wondering about the integration of Microsoft Teams and SharePoint Online and where to manage their integration. After I cover some basics, I’ll share some specific configuration settings associated with both of these M365 services. When you need to create a new team in the Microsoft Teams interface, you can choose whether to create a public or private team. When the new team is created, it creates a new SharePoint site. This new SharePoint site is connected to the Files tab located in the channels associated with that team. While you’re still in the Teams channel, if you click the Open in SharePoint option, you’re brought to the SharePoint site… Read More

What’s new in Microsoft Teams Q2 – 2022

July 22, 2022July 17, 2023Brian Alderman

Understanding SharePoint Server Subscription Edition

July 12, 2022July 30, 2024Brian Alderman

Over the years there have been several releases of SharePoint Server for on-premises installations. In the past, Microsoft released them about every three years (SharePoint Server 2007, 2010, 2013, 2016, 2019). This meant customers didn’t see any new features for three years and then we had to go through a lengthy, well-planned, and thought-out upgrade process to deploy the next version. You may be wondering where the next major release of SharePoint Server is since we haven’t seen anything about SharePoint Server 2022. … Microsoft released SharePoint Server Subscription Edition, which is expected to be the last major release of any on-premises SharePoint Server product. Microsoft is changing things up… Read More