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Microsoft 365 Administrator Certification

November 4, 2024November 5, 2024Brian Alderman

Microsoft announced an update to the Microsoft 365 administration certification. Let’s begin with the fact that Microsoft has renamed the certification from “Microsoft 365 Certified: Enterprise Administrator Expert” to “Microsoft 365 Certified: Administrator Expert”. They dropped enterprise from the name. To obtain the previous Microsoft 365 certification, you had to pass both the MS-100 and the MS-101 exams. The new exam that has replaced the MS-100 and MS-101 is called the Microsoft 365 Administrator, MS-102 exam, which you need to pass to obtain the new Microsoft 365 Certified: Administrator Expert. However, before you study and take the MS-102 exam, you need to pass one of the prerequisite Microsoft exams. Below… Read More

Using Microsoft Migration Manager to Migrate Content to SharePoint Online and OneDrive

August 15, 2024November 5, 2024Brian Alderman

Microsoft SharePoint Online includes a free and simple migration GUI, Migration Manager, to assist you in your migration from SharePoint on-premises sites, file shares, and cloud-based document storage centers to Microsoft 365. The Migration Manager, which is located in the SharePoint Online Admin Center, can perform migrations to SharePoint Online, OneDrive, and Teams from: File shares Cloud-based document centers and Microsoft Stream Box Dropbox Google Workspace Egnyte Stream (Classic) content to Stream (on SharePoint) SharePoint Server on-premises using SPMT (can be downloaded from Migration Manager) 2010 OOB (Out-Of-Box) workflows to Power Automate SharePoint Designer 2010 and 2013 workflows to Power Automate SharePoint Server 2010, 2013, 2016, and 2019 SharePoint Foundation… Read More

Microsoft Renaming Azure AD (AAD) to Entra ID

August 12, 2023July 30, 2024Brian Alderman

Microsoft announced that they will rename Azure AD (AAD) to Entra ID in their attempt to reflect the progression of modern multicloud identity security, eventually simplify secure access for all Microsoft 365 users, and to provide naming consistency for identity and access solutions. Some experts in the industry likely wonder why? Why rename Azure AD (AAD) if Microsoft isn’t providing any enhancements, new features, or even deprecating features in Azure AD. It appears the reason is to integrate the Entra ID product name into the already existing Microsoft Entra product family, which includes: Microsoft Entra ID Microsoft Entra ID Protection Microsoft Entra ID Governance Microsoft Entra External ID Microsoft Entra… Read More

Introducing Microsoft 365 AI Copilot

March 24, 2023March 29, 2023Brian Alderman

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has taken the technology industry by storm lately, and Microsoft who is always on the cutting edge of new technology is certainly dipping their feet in the AI water, with their announcement of Microsoft 365 Copilot. Copilot integrates Large Language Models (LLMs) with data in Microsoft Graph, and Microsoft apps. At this point this integration is two-fold; Embedded in Microsoft 365 apps (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Teams, etc.) Business Chat (calendar, emails, chats, documents, meetings, and contacts) By saying a command similar to ‘tell me about today’s meetings topics’, it will generate outcome based on your days meetings, emails, and chat threads. After it presents its findings,… 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

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 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

Preparing for the MS-100: Microsoft 365 Identity and Services Exam

May 1, 2020January 18, 2022Brian Alderman

Information about this 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 visiting the Microsoft MS-100 exam Web Site, and deciding you want to take the exam, you’ll want to take the time to prepare for the exam. To provide you some guidance I have designed and created nine Pluralsight courses specific to the MS-100 exam. These four courses can be located using the following Pluralsight’s Web Site link. I built the four MS-100 exam courses in a specific order,… Read More