Information You May Have Missed

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“Pop out chat” is here for Microsoft Teams

June 4, 2020

You can now instantly pop out your one-on-one or group chat into a separate window. Then, resize, reposition, or close the window as you wish. It’s a great way to get a lot done when you’re in a meeting or in a call. You can even pop out multiple conversations!

Install SQL Server Service Packs with PowerShell

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June 3, 2020

Any Microsoft SQL database administrator (DBA) will need to patch a SQL installation at one time or another. Using PowerShell, this can be made far easier and more convenient, especially with large numbers of servers. Our friends over at Veeam have shared a simple script for patching SQL Servers with Service Packs.

Change Your Background for a Teams Meeting

June 2, 2020

If you want to change what appears behind you in a video conference, you can either blur your background or replace it entirely. You can change your background before a meeting starts or during a meeting.

Why It’s Better to “Click the link” to Join a Teams Meeting

June 1, 2020

As businesses around the world have transitioned to working from home, people are conducting online meetings more than ever to connect with others and get work done. Have you ever received a meeting invite with both a meeting link and dial-in phone numbers and not known which method is best to join the meeting?

If you have a reliable internet connection, joining via the meeting join link will provide you a richer experience in your meeting. This article provides nine ways the experiences is improved when joining via the meeting link.

Multi-Window Meetings and Calling Experiences in Microsoft Teams

May 28, 2020

Coming soon, users will be able to view meetings and calls in separate windows from the main Microsoft Teams client. Additionally, meeting and call controls such as mute, video, chat, leave and others will now be located at the top of the meeting window so that they are always available and never block the underlying content. This new experience will also include recently announced features such as 3×3 video, raise hands, and custom backgrounds.

This will roll-out OFF by default and users will have the ability to turn on the new experience via the user setting: General > Turn on new meetings and calling experiences.

Veeam Backup for Microsoft Azure

May 27, 2020

Veeam Backup for Microsoft Azure delivers native Azure backup for Microsoft Azure virtual machines (VMs), enabling users to cost-effectively and securely protect their cloud data to overcome any data loss scenario quickly and efficiently. What’s more, it also integrates with Veeam Backup & Replication, providing a single platform for hybrid cloud organizations to manage and migrate cloud, virtual and physical workloads effortlessly.

Veeam Backup for Microsoft Azure brings capabilities to protect your data as native Azure VM snapshots, backup to Azure blob storage or backup to any other Veeam supported repository. Recovery options are equally flexible to minimize the risk of outage, with full and file-level recovery options within Azure or to any other Veeam supported.