July 12, 2019

Microsoft announced that now more than 13 million people use Teams daily and more than 19 million use it weekly. Launched two years ago this week, Microsoft has now passed their main competitor, Slack, in daily active users.

Teams is an integrated set of apps and services designed to transform workplace collaboration, streamline business processes, and protect critical information.

This announcement was accompanied with some new features such as priority notifications that alert recipients of time-sensitive messages and pings them every two minutes until a response is received. Also included are read receipts that display an icon to indicate when a message you sent has been read by the recipient.

Read about these changes and a lot more enhancements in the full release here: http://bit.ly/2XK3851

Posted by Jason Bell, Strategist & Chief Technologist

July 5, 2019

Microsoft has announced the preview release of Information Barriers. This feature aids organizations who are seeking to avoid conflicts of interest within your organization. This feature limits which individuals can communicate and collaborate with each other in Microsoft Teams. Information Barriers in Microsoft Teams helps limit the flow of information by controlling communication between the holders of information and colleagues representing different interests.

Information barrier policies can be used for situations like these:

• A day trader cannot call someone on the marketing team
• Finance personnel working on confidential company information cannot receive calls from certain groups within their organization
• An internal team with trade secret material cannot call or chat online with people in certain groups within their organization
• A research team can only call or chat online with a product development team

A compliance administrator defines policies to allow or prevent communications between groups of users in Microsoft Teams.

Read more about Information Barriers here: http://bit.ly/2FU544X

Posted by Jason Bell, Strategist & Chief Technologist

July 3, 2019

Microsoft Forms Pro is positioned as an easy to use, enterprise survey solution with Office 365 integration. The latest improvements include advanced survey capabilities that support business survey solutions.

The idea is that professional surveys can be quickly created and manage with ease through AI-assisted suggestions. The latest release includes built-in suggested questions with branching logic and rich reporting that includes AI-infused sentiment analysis and keyword detection.

Read more here : http://bit.ly/2FQchCP

Posted by Jason Bell, Strategist & Chief Technologist

July 2, 2019

Posted by Eric Gregorich, Sr. Solutions Architect

June 26, 2019

Posted by Eric Gregorich, Sr. Solutions Architect

June 13, 2019

The traditional approach to SharePoint site hierarchy typically meant creating a site collection with all of your “subsites” under it. This approach has its advantages and disadvantages. Microsoft’s recommendation is to use site collections for each of your sites instead, and they’re providing all of the tools we need to do so, including Site Designs, Hub Sites, O365 Groups, and other functionality. While subsites are still supported, they are not getting any attention going forward.   To migrate from the traditional subsite hierarchy to the modern “flat” hierarchy, ShareGate is providing “Promote” functionality that allows you to upgrade your subsites to site collections as you migrate them.

https://support-desktop.sharegate.com/hc/en-us/articles/360028665932-Promote-Summary

Posted by Eric Gregorich, Sr. Solutions Architect