Many customers using Microsoft Teams request teams restricted to internal members, without guest account access. Teams’ behavior is very often controlled by SharePoint or Microsoft 365 Group settings and a typical team user may not know anything about these settings. We recommend building your own app or automation to ensure
During our Microsoft 365 Governance workshops with customers, a common question is how to handle inactive teams. Our primary recommendation is to implement automated processes for archiving inactive teams, team owners can also archive a team themselves. The team’s conversations and files will be set to read-only and remain searchable.
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.
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
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
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
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
Microsoft Sentinel is a powerful security information and event management (SIEM) system that provides real-time threat detection and response (you can read more about Sentinel in part 1 of this series). It allows security teams to collect, analyze, and act on security data from multiple sources, including Azure, Office 365,
Welcome to Part 4 in this new Windows 365 End-User Experience blog series. This series will be an educational journey exploring several features that can potentially help improve the end-user experience. Below you’ll find all parts of this blog series. In this part, I‘ll cover the following topics. The Windows
Welcome to Part 3 in this new Windows 365 End-User Experience blog series. This series will be an educational journey exploring several features that can potentially help improve the end-user experience. Below you’ll find all parts of this blog series. In this part, I’ll cover the following topics. Multimedia Redirection
Welcome to Part 2 in this new Windows 365 End-User Experience blog series. This series will be an educational journey exploring several features that can potentially help improve the end-user experience. Below you’ll find all parts of this blog series. In this part, I’ll cover the following topics. Microsoft Teams
We often get the question how to we setup Azure AD B2B direct connect with Mindcore. So why not create a blog post regarding this topic, that also show the required setup. Why do we want to do this in the first place? Because we want to use Shared Channels
In this blog post, we’ll explore Windows Autopatch, which became generally available (GA) in July 2022 for customers with Windows 10/11 Enterprise E3 (or higher) at no additional costs. Because this new Microsoft cloud service supports Windows 365 Enterprise Cloud PCs, it got my full attention and curiosity about the
Introduction I recently was tasked to enroll Microsoft teams rooms device into Intune as the customer needed compliance policy to allow the device to communicate to cloud service. There are plenty of good resources on the internet how to get started, how and what to do. However, I stumbled across
Introduction When we buy license to use office365 services we have lots of collaboration possibilities. One of the great features is OneDrive. OneDrive gives us the possibilities to backup folders like desktop, documents and pictures what makes the life of working on multiple devices much easier. (e.g., some of this
Introduction This morning I bummed into “To open the web app, you need to change your browser settings to allow third-party cookies.” Haven’t had issues with login into teams on my browser before. So, this changed during the weekend. Why use Teams on the browser in the first place? Well
With the massive growth of Microsoft Teams since the start of the global COVID19 pandemic and Microsoft’s focus on pushing Teams as its primary collaboration interface. Organisations are now looking at how Teams can be used to optimise their End User experience by customising the solution to meet their
Old habits die hard when implementing new technologies for end users. The new world of Modern Workplace and working with online files can be a big jump for some users in your organisation, so it is nice to know that there are ways of making things feel a little
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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Modern workplace and infrastructure architect with a focus on Microsoft 365 and security.
