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TekkiGurus Announces Website Launch for the Microsoft Community

March 15, 2023July 8, 2023Brian Alderman

Community site for experts, users and solution providers using Microsoft technology Las Vegas, NV — March 15, 2023 — TekkiGurus.com, the online platform for Microsoft technology enthusiasts, has launched today to over 300,000 members of the Microsoft community. The website aims to provide a comprehensive resource for tech enthusiasts of all levels, from beginners to advanced users, with information, insights and the latest news on all things Microsoft tech. TekkiGurus.com will feature an extensive library of technology-related articles, tutorials, product reviews and how-to guides contributed from an extensive network of Microsoft MVPs, Microsoft Certified Trainers and other industry experts and thought leaders who make their living helping companies understand and… Read More

Microsoft Teams Premium is Released

February 20, 2023July 30, 2024Brian Alderman

In February 2023, Microsoft announced that Microsoft Teams Premium is generally available. Microsoft Teams Premium is an add-on per-user license used to enhance the Teams experience. Teams Premium 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 these individual add-ons in Microsoft Teams Premium for one low per-user price. Speaking of pricing, the per-user pricing of Teams Premium is $10 per user per month.… Read More

Managing Microsoft 365 using PowerShell

February 2, 2023July 30, 2024Brian Alderman

Managing the powerful productivity and collaboration suite Microsoft 365 can be a daunting task, especially for organizations with thousands of users, licenses for those users, and hundreds of groups used to manage the users. PowerShell is a command-line tool that can simplify and automate the management of Microsoft 365 and save time and resources. It’s important for Microsoft 365 administrators to have the ability to automate, bulk manage, and configure these users, licenses, and groups. To benefit, you need a thorough understanding of how PowerShell integrates with Microsoft 365 and how you can use PowerShell to manage users, licenses, and groups, and generate reports and PowerShell scripts to perform some… Read More

SharePoint Server 2013 End of Support

January 21, 2023July 30, 2024Brian Alderman

Microsoft will move SharePoint Server 2013 to the End of Support category on April 11, 2023. The Microsoft end-of-support process provides two phases: Phase 1, mainstream support, which includes security updates, bug fixes, and new features; and Phase 2, extended support, which includes paid support and security updates, not including bug fixes and patches to the product, and, of course, no new features. For those of you running SharePoint Server 2013, it won’t stop working, but if there are issues with it, there won’t be any free support available for this product, no additional software updates, and no more bug and security fixes. The product will be obsolete. Even if… Read More

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