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Limits and configuration in Microsoft Flow

July 23, 2019

Microsoft has stated to establish more levels of capabilities for Microsoft Flow. It is crucial to understand the limitations and boundaries of the product. Microsoft has provided guidance for issues such as “request limits” which are the limits for a single outgoing request. As well as items like, “actions per workflow” which are 250.

For the details check out this page that shows the current limits and configuration details for Microsoft Flow: http://bit.ly/2Yi23BS .

Posted by Eric Gregorich, Sr. Solutions Architect

Microsoft announces that 13 million people use Teams daily

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

Information Barriers for Microsoft Teams

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

Microsoft has enhanced its Office 365 Form feature

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.

Updates to Microsoft Teams Channel Notifications

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July 2, 2019

Microsoft Teams has made some minor updates to how you can follow a channel. Previously, you would open the channel menu can click Follow or Unfollow. Following would add any activity to your activity feed.

Now, you can open the channel menu can click the Channel Notifications option. You have more options to choose from. Including if you receive a banner notification or just include any updates in your activity feed.

Managing these notifications can help you keep unwanted content out of your Activity feed, and allows you to be notified of the topics your most interested in.

Posted by Eric Gregorich, Sr. Solutions Architect

Control your email notifications in Microsoft Flow Approvals

June 26, 2019

The latest roll out in Microsoft Flow includes the ability to enable or disable notifications within the approval process. This allows you to disable the out-of-the-box notification and create your own notification with custom formatting and content.