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Send an email to a channel in Microsoft Teams

You can email a Teams channel using its email address. Once set up, anyone in the team can reply. To see a channel email, you must select use the option Get email address on the channel itself. You may use this email address as the recipient address in Outlook. Any

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Default selected options when sharing files in Teams

When you select Share on a file in Teams, it is actually shared in SharePoint. The default options selected can be changed, and when we run our Microsoft 365 Governance workshops this is often a required action for a lot of customers. By default SharePoint will show these option when

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Delete chats in Microsoft Teams based on a retention policy

A frequently discussed topic during our Microsoft 365 governance workshops is the appropriate retention period for chat messages within Teams. Some customers prefer that chat messages are deleted after a predefined period rather than being retained for an extended time. In this post, we will examine how to efficiently delete

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Teams and file sync to OneDrive Pt. 2

As explained in Part one, a common Microsoft 365 Governance workshop question is how to use the Sync to OneDrive and Add shortcut to OneDrive features, both found under the Files tab in Teams channels. We recommend using only Add shortcut to OneDrive and disabling Sync. However, here we’ll also

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Teams and file sync to OneDrive Pt. 1

A common inquiry that arises during our Microsoft 365 Governance workshop concerns the use of the Sync to OneDrive feature in Teams and the Add shortcut to OneDrive option. Both functionalities are accessible from the Files tab within a Teams channel. We normally recommend using Add shortcut to OneDrive instead

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Unlock Teams Premium prompt

We are starting to see the Unlock Teams Premium prompt, on more tenants, and at the same time we are now also starting to get the question on our Microsoft 365 Governance workshops. Teams Premium is not the only license that users can do self-service/trials set up and purchase on.

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Restrict save in Office apps to Cloud locations

A new policy setting has been introduced in Microsoft 365 Apps for Enterprise that governs the ability of Word, Excel, and PowerPoint to create new files using non-Cloud locations, such as local or network drives. When this policy is enabled, users will be restricted to Cloud Locations for the Save

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Azure Arc VM Onboarding Pt.2 – GPO Deep-Dive

While I was writing part 1, I kept digging into more details on the GPO deployment method and figured that it deserves a post by itself. Here I’ll cover some pitfalls I’ve run into and things to make life easier such as logging the deployments and having a workbook to

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Azure Arc VM Onboarding Pt.1 – Introduction

In my previous blogposts I’ve shown some of Azure Arc’s features, and interesting capabilities. All super cool ways to securely interact with your machines, regardless of where they are hosted. However, so far, I’ve glanced over a problem: How do you get started with onboarding machines? In Part 1 of

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Microsoft Purview – Enabling Sensitivity (Purview) Labels for documents in Teams

Introduction Microsoft Purview is Microsoft’s unified data governance, compliance, and risk platform. It lets you discover, classify, label, protect, retain, and monitor data across Microsoft 365, On-Premises, multicloud, and SaaS sources. It centralizes policies (like sensitivity labels) to enforce consistent security and compliance. During our Governance workshops, we initiate the

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