Last Update: Oct 21, 2022
Perhaps one of the biggest problems with e-mail (besides the spam issue) is the fact that not many people know how to properly format their e-mail messages. Properly writing your e-mail is generally known as “e-mail netiquette”. The rules of e-mail Netiquette are not “rules” that are written or governed by any authority, but are considered…
Last Update: Oct 21, 2022
The news that Microsoft is working on cloud signatures for Outlook for Windows is welcome. The venerable Outlook client has long stored its signature information in the system registry, which makes it hard to move signatures from PC to PC. On the other hand, OWA stores its signatures in mailboxes, so the same signature is used no matter where you log in. Of course, OWA is a simpler client (no profiles, for instance), but it should be eminently possible to store everything Outlook needs in the cloud. At least for Outlook clients connected to Exchange Online…
Last Update: Oct 21, 2022
Microsoft has announced that Exchange Online and Outlook will soon synchronize email signatures across devices. Does this mean that the ISV market for email autosignature products is over? I don’t think so because there’s lots of other things to do with email signatures once device synchronization is handled.
Last Update: Oct 19, 2022
Tracking Down Obsolete Accounts Last December, I wrote about how the problem of identifying obsolete guest accounts that exist in an Office 365 tenant. An increasing number of applications support Azure B2B Collaboration and create guest accounts to allow external people to access content. Teams is a great example, as are the sharing links used…
Last Update: Oct 14, 2022
Very Useful Sensitivity Labels Microsoft has steadily been building out the ability of sensitivity labels to manage different aspects of containers (teams, groups, and sites), with the ability to control the external sharing capability for SharePoint Online team sites the latest addition (Figure 1). Image 1 Expand Figure 1: Defining external sharing capability in a sensitivity…
Microsoft introduced a new Microsoft 365 app at its Ignite conference yesterday. This app will replace the all-in-one Office app available on Windows and mobile devices, as well as the office.com web portal. But that wasn’t the whole story. On the microsoft365.com home page, Microsoft detailed that “Office is becoming Microsoft 365.” This requires a…
Last Update: Oct 13, 2022
Excel fans delight! You can now export task data for a Planner plan to Excel and slice and dice the task information to your heart’s content. The new feature is likely to be popular with Office 365 users because it adds values and it makes sense to use Excel for this purpose, but another way of looking at it is that Planner is so poor at analysis and reporting that it needed external help. The truth probably lies in the middle.
Last Update: Oct 13, 2022
PowerShell has its Limitations I like using PowerShell to work with Office 365 data, but sometimes PowerShell isn’t the right tool. It might be too slow, or a PowerShell cmdlet isn’t available to work with some data. Planner is a good example. People have asked about reporting the plans available to a user or the…
Last Update: Oct 13, 2022
One of the latest steps in bringing workflows from other Microsoft 365 applications into the native Teams interface is creating an App called ‘Tasks by Planner and To Do’
Last Update: Oct 07, 2022
When thinking about your migration to Office 365, these are some of the common pitfalls I have encountered while helping customers move to the cloud.