Microsoft recently announced that Microsoft Teams Premium is generally available. Microsoft Teams Premium is an add-on per-user license used to enhance the Teams experience. This latest release of Teams includes the integration of OpenAI’s GPT-3.5 making one-on-one meetings, large meetings, virtual appointments, and webinars more intelligent, personalized, and secure. Some of these features are already available as individual add-ons, but when you start adding up the total cost of these add-ons, it can get a bit pricey on a per-user basis. Microsoft includes all of these individual add-ons in Microsoft Teams Premium for one low per-user price. Please view my article Microsoft Teams Premium on TekkiGurus.com for more information on… Read More
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Managing Microsoft 365 using PowerShell
Microsoft’s PowerShell provides administrators the capability to automate routine tasks using a command-line shell that’s associated with a powerful scripting language. This command line utility is structured, intuitive, provides consistency, and is available across all Microsoft products, making it easier for an administrator to transition their PowerShell knowledge and experience from one product to another. Managing Microsoft 365 using PowerShell is an efficient way for your M365 administrators to manage users, groups, and many other M365 components in bulk. As an example, using PowerShell, you can easily add hundreds of users, or modify properties on these users, or groups located in Microsoft 365. It is a tool that every… Read More
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SharePoint Server 2013 End of Support
The ever-so-popular SharePoint Server 2013 is in the End of Support category at Microsoft. This doesn’t mean your SharePoint servers are going to crash and stop working but it does mean no more updates, free support, and potentially leaving your SharePoint environment exposed to security threats, and the evil malware and hackers. This means you have to make a choice; Accept the risk and remain on SharePoint Server 2013 Upgrade to a later version of SharePoint Server on-premises Migrate to SharePoint Online Obviously the easier one is to remain on SharePoint Server 2013, but it isn’t the safest one. Upgrading to a later version requires you to decide what version,… Read More
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What’s new in Microsoft Teams Q4 – 2022
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
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Introducing and Exploring Microsoft Forms
Microsoft Forms provides the capability to create surveys, quizzes, and polls. After doing so you can invite users to participate, from most any device, and then view the results in real-time, use analytical tools to summarize the information gathered from the form, and optionally export these results to Excel for use with other analytical tools. For more information on Microsoft Forms, as well as to create them, access them, and share them, please visit my detailed article Exploring Microsoft Forms at TekkiGurus.com.
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Introducing and Exploring Quizzes using Microsoft Forms
Microsoft Forms includes the capability to generate real-time quizzes to poll participants who can access these quizzes from most any device, and the creator can view the results and use analytical tools to summarize the information gathered from the quiz, and optionally export these results to Excel for use with other analytical tools. For more information on Microsoft Quizzes, as well as to create them, access them, and share them, please visit my detailed article Exploring Microsoft Quizzes at TekkiGurus.com.
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What’s new in Microsoft Teams Q3 – 2022
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 Manage… Read More
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Integrating Microsoft Forms with Microsoft Teams
Microsoft Teams has taken the world by storm and it has become the most versatile and utilized end-user service offered by Microsoft. There are already several components that are tightly integrated with Teams including SharePoint Online, Exchange Online, Azure AD, and over 600 additional apps available in the App Store. With Teams being so popular, it only makes sense for us to not only use it for collaboration, chatting, and video meetings, but also use it for gathering information from the millions of individuals who are accessing this powerful application. This is where Microsoft Forms comes in, a powerful tool that can be easily integrated with Teams to allow us… Read More
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Managing Microsoft Teams using PowerShell
Microsoft’s PowerShell provides administrators the capability to automate routine tasks using a command-line shell that’s associated with a powerful scripting language. This command line utility is structured, intuitive, provides consistency, and is available across all Microsoft products, making it easier for an administrator to transition their PowerShell knowledge and experience from one product to another. Managing Microsoft Teams using PowerShell is an efficient way for your M365 and Teams administrators to manage teams, channels, team members, and many other Microsoft Teams components in bulk. As an example, using PowerShell, you can easily add hundreds of users to a team, or modify properties on these team, or modify properties on the… Read More
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Managing SharePoint Online using PowerShell
Microsoft’s PowerShell for SharePoint Online (SPO) provides administrators the capability to automate routine tasks using a command-line shell that’s associated with a powerful scripting language. This command line utility is structured, intuitive, provides consistency, and is available across all Microsoft products, making it easier for an administrator to transition their PowerShell knowledge and experience from one product to another. Managing SharePoint Online using PowerShell is an efficient way for your M365 and SPO administrators to manage SharePoint sites, site members, site groups, and many other SPO components in bulk. As an example, using PowerShell, you can easily add hundreds of users to a site or modify properties of a site,… Read More
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