Wednesday, 6 June 2018

Manage Teams during the transition to the new Microsoft Teams and Skype for Business Admin Center


The new Microsoft Teams & Skype for Business Admin Center is coming soon!
Starting in March 2018, Microsoft are gradually migrating settings to the Microsoft Teams & Skype for Business Admin Center from both the current Skype for Business Admin center and the Microsoft Teams experience in the Office 365 Admin center. If a setting has been migrated, you'll see a notification and then be directed to the setting's location in the new Microsoft Teams & Skype for Business Admin Center.
We’ll continue to migrate other functionality from the Skype for Business Admin center in the coming months. You can stay up to date via our public roadmap.

Check it out

Admin training for Microsoft Teams


Some training from Microsoft about managing Microsoft Teams. There are some videos and tutorials to help your understanding of Teams. Make sure you check back often as MS will update them..

You can see it here

Looks like Microsoft have decided to produce a new “training portal” with the goal of helping everyone get more value out of Office 365.
“Microsoft Training Services” was announced at the recent SharePoint Conference in Las Vegas as a “a digital, customized learning service for Office 365 and Windows 10 that helps customers transform their organizations without investing heavily in training and change management resources”.
From the blog announcement, Microsoft Training Services offers:
·         Customizable, flexible content – Admins choose to hide or show content based on their environment or build their own custom playlists that are tailored to the unique needs of their organization. End users make their own playlists and share them with coworkers.
·         Experiences sized to the customer need – Our service offers training playlist tools to be incorporated within their existing sites or the full Toolkit for Teamwork experience which can provide the end to end out of the box website for customizable adoption & training content.
·         Always up-to-date content: Microsoft Training Services content is continually and automatically updated, enabling organizations to provide a library of up-to-date learning content for end users and avoid the hassle of having to make the changes themselves.
·         Measurement tools – Management gains valuable insights into the training materials users consume and the types of custom playlists they create and share.
Microsoft Training Services delivers training content from an Azure-hosted content store to a Web part hosted on the customer’s SharePoint.
I think this is worth looking at, particularly if you are using Microsoft Teams.
Microsoft Training Services will be available as a pilot in late July 2018. To be added to the pilot waitlist or to learn more register at https://aka.ms/mtspilot.

Announcing the new Microsoft Teams & Skype for Business Admin Center

by https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/27491  Christian Schacht

Since its launch in March 2017, Microsoft Teams has evolved to become the ultimate hub for teamwork and has grown significantly in capabilities.  Teams delivers chat-based collaboration, meetings, calling, and enterprise voice features as we’re bringing all the Skype for Business Online capabilities into Teams.

To enable admins to better manage the various aspects of the service, we have started to roll out a new Microsoft Teams & Skype for Business Admin Center.


This new experience provides you with a unified experience to manage both Teams and Skype for Business and will also incorporate Call Analytics and the Call Quality Dashboard.
In addition to giving you one place to manage all aspects of the service, the portal provides administrators with additional functionality, including new end-to-end insights and the ability to manage Teams settings on a user level.


You can see the Microsoft blog post here

FAQ - Journey from Skype for Business to Microsoft Teams

Some FAQ's from Microsoft docs..



https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/faq-journey
Microsoft Teams

Latest roadmap as at 23 April 2018

https://aka.ms/skype2teamsroadmap
Office 365 Network Connectivity Principles

This is from the Office 365 post on the Microsoft support pages


To learn how to optimize your endpoints connectivity to O365 click on the text


In this article, you will learn about:

Friday, 1 June 2018

Azure Storage Explorer

 I came across the Azure Storage Explorer which allows you to easily manage Azure Storage anywhere from Windows, macOS and Linux.
You can access multiple accounts and subscriptions across Azure, Azure Stack and the sovereign Cloud.
You can then create, delete, view and edit storage resources.
Additionally you can view and edit Blob, Queue, Table, File, Cosmos DB storage and Data Lake Storage
and finally you can obtain shared access signature (SAS) keys.

Its available for Windows, Mac and Linux

Download it from the link below and test it out!

Check it out here https://azure.microsoft.com/en-gb/features/storage-explorer/

Azure Storage and Azure Stamps

The following blog gives insight into Azure storage and stamps especially:

/https://blog.azureandbeyond.com/2016/05/16/azure-storage-account-architecture/

Friday, 4 May 2018


Welcome to PowerShell 


PowerShell documentation can be found at https://docs.microsoft.com/en-gb/powershell/  

Welcome to the PowerShell Gallery

The PowerShell Gallery is the central repository for PowerShell content. You can find new PowerShell commands or Desired State Configuration (DSC) resources in the Gallery.


For all those who desire some help, please have a look at the PowerShell website.

But if you want to go straight to the gallery, then go here

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