Information You May Have Missed

We are constantly sifting through all the noise to bring you relevant data you may have missed.

View and Search Office 365 Content from the Edge New Tab Page

November 1, 2019

The latest feature in the new Edge Dev channel is the ability to view and search your Office 365 content from the New Tab page and start page. The trick is to log into your Edge account using your Office 365 account. Then, on the new tab page, you will have the option to choose Office 365 instead of the default MSN News.

This gives you quick access to your Office 365 content and also when you search you will see be searching all content across Office 365. This may be the quickest way to find a site, file, person in the organization.

Click here to download the Edge Dev Channel: http://bit.ly/2KM831z

Posted by Eric Gregorich, Sr. Solutions Architect

Changes to OS Requirements for PowerApps Mobile Apps

October 30, 2019

To provide you with the best experience, PowerApps is changing to support iOS’s two most recent versions and Android’s four most recent versions. This will be effective starting Decemeber 1, 2019. For example, going forward PowerApps will be supported for iOS 13 and iOS 12. When iOS 14 is released, PowerApps will be supported for iOS 14 and iOS 13. Similarly, PowerApps will be supported for Android OS versions 10, 9, 8 and 7. Moving forward, as new versions of OS are made generally available, Microsoft will drop support for the versions using the policy described above and only newer versions will be supported.

Read more to learn what happens if you don’t update OS to a supported version: http://bit.ly/2OaRO07

Posted by Eric Gregorich, Sr. Solutions Architect

Microsoft Acquires Mover to Add to its Migration Suite

October 22, 2019

Microsoft has acquired Mover, a migration tool that specializes in migrations between cloud services. The current Microsoft Migration Tool only supports moving from SharePoint on-premises and file system migrations. Mover will support migrations from other cloud services such as Box, Dropbox, Google Drive. It will also allow migration between Office tenants.

Change Pinned Apps in Microsoft Teams Navigation Bar

October 16, 2019

If you often use Microsoft Planner or some other app within Microsoft Teams, you may want to pin it to the app navigation bar on the left. This change is made from the Microsoft Teams Admin Center and applies to all users.

Click here to learn how: http://bit.ly/2XBW3Fc

Posted by Eric Gregorich, Sr. Solutions Architect

New Support Features for Microsoft Office 365 Admins

October 9, 2019

Intelligent self-serve solutions
Callback scheduling
User-defined language and time zone
User-defined case severity
Full page ticket and case communication history
Updated Service Request view
Case History export

September Updates for Microsoft Teams

October 2, 2019

New features include channel cross-posting and improvements to chat filtering, and the ability to turn off conversation notifications in channels. Several improvements for calls and meetings in Teams were released as well.