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
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
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
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
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
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.
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
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
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
Today we secure our tenants using conditional access or security defaults, but in the old days many tenants were configured to use Legacy per-user Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA). It is recommended that per-user Microsoft Entra multifactor authentication should not be enabled or enforced when Conditional Access policies are in use. Convert
With the recent generally available Entra ID functionality into Bicep while I was on vacation, I couldn’t wait to get back and try it out. Specifically, I wanted to see if using this functionality would allow for some level of Infrastructure as code (IaC) to good ol’ Active Directory when
In 2022 we wrote a post about SharePoint and OneDrive integration with Microsoft Entra B2B. As of 2025, the information in this post remains relevant for tenants created before June 2023; tenants provisioned after that date have Entra B2B integration enabled by default. Now, only one command is needed instead
A common question in our Microsoft 365 governance workshops is whether to allow the OneDrive client to sync with other organizations. If needed, modern managed Windows computers can restrict OneDrive syncing to specific Entra ID tenants only. Previously, we used a Group Policy Object (GPO) to restrict OneDrive access to
On updated tenants, external file sharing is now enabled in both 1:1 and group chats. MC1102790 Roadmap ID 492625 When this feature is not enabled you will not see an attach file option when chatting with an external user. To share a file, you must first share the file from
After reading about cross-tenant quirks in sensitivity labels, I got curious: how are these labels stored in a .DOCX file—and can they be removed without encryption? Short answer: yes, and it’s surprisingly easy.
Recently we ran into a fun experience when adjusting the Cross-Cloud meetings within the Teams Admin Center which caused Entra ID Cross-Tenant Access Settings to be changed. This behavior didn’t seem to be documented anywhere and did cause some head-scratching before we figured out why B2B invitations weren’t automatically being
Enable Change tracking and inventory from Azure ARC Introduction To be able to see inventory and change tracking information when we have added our non-Azure machines to Azure ARC, we must enable the change tracking and inventory solution on our Log Analytics workspace. This will give us an insight into
Introduction A while ago, my colleague Mattias Melkersen wrote a blog post on how to remove unwanted apps created during the first sync between Intune and Microsoft Store for Business read more about that here In this blog post I will show you how to remove Windows 10 built-in apps
Introduction If you like me have the urge to keep things clean and nice, then you must have come across the exact same situation that I am in. Excel Mobile, PowerPoint Mobile, Sway, Word Mobile which pr default will sync to your Intune environment once the Business store has been
For some organizations there is a concern when deploying OneDrive for Business that users will access corporate data from their personal device. I completely understand you! To address those concerns, it is possible to restrict OneDrive so that it only synchronizes files to domain-joined computers. Normally in this case a
Governance and compliance in Office365 is more relevant than ever and Microsoft has a few tools in the toolbox that helps companies get compliant when it comes to documents in SharePoint Online, Teams, OneDrive for Business and Exchange Online. While GDPR shone a light on a lot of issues, it
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