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Integrating Microsoft Forms with Microsoft Teams

October 9, 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… Read More

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

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 N/A Chat LinkedIn profiles in… Read More

What’s new in Microsoft Teams – Q1 of 2022

April 12, 2022March 2, 2023Brian Alderman

Microsoft Teams New Capabilities and Features

January 15, 2022February 22, 2023Brian Alderman

Microsoft continues to enhance Microsoft Teams and recently announced some pretty big updates to Microsoft Teams this month. I will discuss the top five updates in this article so you can quickly go test them out to see how beneficial they will be to your organization. Let’s begin my exploring the new capabilities in the Meetings feature of Microsoft Teams. Within the Recordings capabilities there are a few slick updates released and one of my favorites is the multi-speed playback which allows you to control the speed at which you play back the recorded meeting. This can be adjusted to slow down or speed up (0.5 to 2x). This is… Read More

Microsoft Teams Essentials for Small Businesses

November 28, 2021February 7, 2022Brian Alderman

Earlier this month Microsoft announced a new flavor of Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Essentials, targeted for small businesses. The Microsoft Teams Essentials standalone offering is the first of its’ kind and has a lower per-user price point than the Microsoft Teams offered in Microsoft 365. At only $4.00 per user per month, it includes the primary features and functionality including group chat, calendaring, file sharing, and unlimited group video calls, for up to 30 hours, all which are essential for small business working with your customers. Microsoft Teams Essentials does have some capabilities specific to its’ offering which include Extended meeting time (up to 30 hours) Large meeting capacity (host up… Read More

Microsoft announces first Microsoft 365 price increase in a decade

September 9, 2021February 7, 2022Brian Alderman

We knew it was going to happen, but just didn’t know when. With Microsoft adding so many new apps, features, and capabilities it was long overdue. In the decade prior to this price increase, Microsoft has enhanced the online offering significantly. Let me provide a high-level overview of what has changed since the initial release of Office 365. Microsoft 365 was introduced, which not only includes Office, but also Windows, and Enterprise Mobility and Security (EMS) Microsoft 365 has since added 24 new apps including Microsoft Teams, the Power trio (Apps, BI, Automate), Stream, Planner, and OneDrive Released over 1,400 new features and capabilities falling into three primary functional categories:… Read More

Preparing for the MS-101: Microsoft 365 Mobility and Security Exam

May 25, 2020February 1, 2022Brian Alderman

Information about the MS-101 exam including its prerequisites, intended audience, and skills measured can be found on this Microsoft Web Site. This exam is used to obtain the Microsoft 365 Enterprise Administrator role and the Microsoft 365 Certified: Enterprise Administrator Expert certification. After discovering more about the MS-101 exam, you will want to prepare for the exam with some guidance provided in my seven Pluralsight courses specific to the MS-101 exam, which you can locate using the following Pluralsight’s Web Site link. I built the seven courses in a specific order, and some of courses are built on previous courses so it is best to watch them in the order… Read More