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Introducing File Upload for Microsoft Forms

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January 16, 2020

This new feature allows form designers to choose a new question type, File Upload, which enables respondents to attach files as part of their response.

Files can be accessed in either SharePoint or OneDrive for Business, depending on the form type. Group forms are stored in SharePoint, while personal forms are stored in OneDrive for Business.
Form creators can limit the number and size of files as well as specify file types.

Critical Vulnerability Affecting Microsoft Windows

January 15, 2020

NSA has discovered a critical vulnerability (CVE-2020-0601) affecting Microsoft Windows®1 cryptographic functionality. The vulnerability affects Windows 10 and Windows Server 2016/2019 as well as applications that rely on Windows for trust functionality. Exploitation of the vulnerability allows attackers to defeat trusted network connections and deliver executable code while appearing as legitimately trusted entities.

NSA recommends installing all January 2020 Patch Tuesday patches as soon as possible to effectively mitigate the vulnerability on all Windows 10 and Windows Server 2016/2019 systems.

Presenter and Attendee Roles in Microsoft Teams Meetings

January 13, 2020

Meeting organizers will now have an option to define presenter and attendee roles for meeting participants. Presenters will have full permissions in the meeting, whereas attendees cannot share content, take control, mute or remove other participants, admit people waiting in the lobby, or start/stop recording.

Before or during the meeting, organizers can specify who is an attendee or a presenter through the meeting options panel.

Dynamics 365 Enables Business Intelligence Across Your Organization

January 9, 2020

Future growth across all industries—and the organization and business models of entire industries themselves—will be largely driven by the more intelligent application of digital technologies to engage customers, reimagine products and services, transform operations, and empower employees.

Understand customers better, respond to their needs faster, and create a more productive and agile workforce using the real-time visibility and actionable insights provided by Microsoft Dynamics 365.

Examples of how companies are using the built-in intelligence capabilities of Dynamics 365 to identify trends, anticipate opportunities, and engage with customers. Learn how Dynamics 365 empowers you to:

Engage customers and anticipate their needs with content that’s tailored to their interests.
Optimize operations and improve decision making with unified reporting capabilities.
Empower employees to visualize work in a new way with intelligent tools and predictive analytics.
Transform products with crucial information gained through machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities.

Download The Savvy Leader’s Guide to Real-Time Insights e-book here to learn more: http://bit.ly/2Z3qlkJ

Posted by Jason Bell, Strategist & Chief Technologist

Make a Difference. Become a Champion.

January 7, 2020

Microsoft provides a free Office 365 Champions Program to support the Champion role worldwide. This program provides an online community, monthly community calls, and content to help drive adoption across a variety of services in Office 365.

This program is open to everyone. We recommend that, at a minimum, anyone running a Champions Program in their organization become a member to get access to Champions Program training materials.

The Future of Subsites in SharePoint

December 30, 2019

Subsites in SharePoint are not going away any time soon. However, creating every site as a site collection, using Hub Sites to group them together is the recommendation for the future. This results in a much flatter hierarchy.

All of the latest innovations around branding, provisioning, information architecture, and security, are geared towards this site collection approach.