Category: Office 365 Groups
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Office 365 for IT Pros (2019 Edition) is Now Available
The Fifth Edition is Here! All good things come to and end and it’s time to finish up with the 4th edition of Office 365 for IT Pros. We will cease work on the 4th edition on July 1, 2018 and retire the edition soon afterwards. Originally released on June…
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Tracking Change in Office 365 Book Content
The Dead Fish Syndrome I am amused with the notion that technical information presented in a blog, book, article, or any other form can remain relatively current long past its publication date. This certainly was the case when I started writing books in the early 1990s, but cloud services have…
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Better Testing and Communication Needed for Office 365
Odd Things Happening Inside Office 365 Despite the recent success of Office 365 (in terms of revenue earned for Microsoft), I cannot lose the feeling that some quality control, communications, and testing issues lurk inside the service. A troubling number of small but telling incidents have happened over the last…
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Analyzing Updates for the Office 365 for IT Pros eBook Since June 2016
The Office 365 for IT Pros eBook has been extensively updated since its initial publication on June 1, 2016. This analysis shows the hot spots for change inside Office 365.
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Ignite done, now on to Connections!
The Microsoft Ignite 2016 conference is done and it’s time to get ready for IT/DEV Connections. In this post, I reflect on a busy week in Atlanta.
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A new sponsor for Office 365 for IT Pros
The Office 365 for IT Pros book has a new sponsor! The author team is delighted to announce that QUADROtech has agreed to support the project for the next year. An update to the book has been issued containing a new chapter authored by QUADROtech along with a set of…
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IT/DEV Connections 2016 – Enterprise Collaboration Track
IT/DEV Connections 2016 is coming up in October and a great set of sessions will be delivered in the Enterprise Collaboration track covering Exchange and SharePoint on-premises, Office 365 from programming to implementation, and lots of ask the expert sessions.
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Updated version of the Outlook Groups apps available
Microsoft has released updated versions of the Outlook Groups apps. The apps don’t have anything much to do with Outlook but are named as such as to create an association with the brand. In reality, these apps are all about Office 365 Groups and allowing users mobile access to threaded…
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Office 365 for IT Pros (3rd edition) – Change Log for Updates
Office 365 for IT Pros is intended to be a “living” book. In other words, the content we published when the book first appeared on June 1, 2016 is under constant review in light of developments that occur, typos and other issues that we find and fix, and comments that…
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Controlling the creation of Office 365 Groups using an Azure Active Directory policy
This text is an extract from Chapter 9 from the eBook “Office 365 for IT Pros”. This is an example of how we incorporate new events quickly into the publishing process and make new content available to readers. In this case, the General Availability of Office 365 Planner (announced by Microsoft…
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