Waking up to a cool new feature, it looks like Microsoft default mutes people when they join meetings. That is nice feature. We need more ability to set some of these features in the conferencing policy for teams. I do think this is going in the right step though.
Nice feature to wake up to
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Pin channels that are important to you or that you want to access quickly. Pinning a channel moves it to the top of your channel list. You can also reorder your pinned channels to prioritize them. This only changes your view and won’t change views for the rest of your team.
Try it out for yourself: go to the channel of your choice, select More options
>Pin. Or right click the channel name and select Pin.
So finally Microsoft has released the ability to pin various objects around the different screens in teams. This is a fantastic addition to the product and something we’ve heard about on the road map for some time.
Huge announcement that everyone can now use whiteboard and teams as long as you are an in the meeting. Trying it out this morning, it works pretty well.
Well that changes things a bit doesn’t it? So if you have set up basic auth with any MDM providers with your mobile clients, like native iOS mail. You are in for a rude awakening. It is time to move to modern authentication. And its time to move now.
At first glance, I was really excited to see Wakelet. Waklet allows sharing content from across the web. Let’s show you around. It allows you to save everything in a central location that can easily be shared, viewed and consumed at a later time. You start off by picking some categories of things you like, or what you do.
I’ve been building a few different pages that I can use to consume different content. Where this tool becomes really powerful is when combine it with the education community. It allows quick dissemination of information to students. It also integrates really well with teams.
Overall, it is a really cool product.
I guess just a few thoughts on the scrum master certification. I would like to start by saying that I think our trainer was fantastic. I found his teaching style aligned perfectly with my learning style, which was a true treat. I liked the group activities, and the group learning style. His explanations made perfect sense to me, and the model seems to be a good fit for organizations.
The only thing about the course, I wish we had gotten more into the hybrid model. I honestly do not believe that most companies can run true scrum. I mean, no managers, no QA, full agile development. This does not come off to me as realistic. I’ve worked a lot of companies, I’ve consulted at hundreds more. I just don’t see a full scum set up in the field.
Overall, I would recommend getting the certification, although the test wasn’t as hard as I would of hoped.
I really like the new reactions in teams. Although, I am growing tired of the comparison to Slack. Every time Microsoft drops a new feature in Teams, the pundits say the same thing “Slack already does that”
Well you know what slack doesn’t do?
PowerPoint, Word, Office, Email, single pane of glass work experience….but regardless
And finally from last month…..
Announcements. This is actually quite a cool feature that I think this is quite a cool feature that doesn’t get nearly enough usage.
From Teams, select the manage icon in the lower left hand corner
Archiving is a great feature for searching for content later, at my firm one of the first problems with had with teams is retention, what type of controls do we have. Be very careful with the delete team here.
More information on searching thru an archive.
To view and search through the content of the archived team, click its name in the Archived list. Or, make it a favorite if you think you’ll refer to it often (in the list, select the team, then More options > Favorite).
All of the team activity is frozen once the team is archived. No one will be able to start new conversations or reply to posts in a channel, add or remove channels, edit team settings, or add apps. As a team owner, you’ll still be able to add or remove members, update roles, and delete, renew, or restore an archived team.
“And I’d give it all away, just to have somewhere to go to ”
Hey I was an early 2000’s kid, and everyone I knew listened to Linkin Park. I can’ talk about Hybrid Exchange without talking about the best band ever.
Microsoft Exchange is a system that is aware that eventually it is going to be in a hybrid state. I often refer to this state as broken. From the second you move the first mailbox in Exchange, you are in a hybrid state. You can also, in some ways, think of this as a broken state.
To figure out what the current set up for your environment, take a look at the Get Hybrid Configuration.
Get-HybridConfiguration
One of the challenges with explaining this to upper leadership, is by nature when you tell someone in IT leadership that you are going to be a broken state for an extended period of time, they have a way of breaking out. I can’t blame them, I would freak out too. The thing to keep in mind is that this is a natural progression of Exchange. There really is no thing as an in place upgrade.
Checking out Oktane this week. I am looking forward to hearing anything related the O365 stack. There are some great sponsors, and I’ve always found these types of events great to learn how vendors are planning on integrating with either other. Getting announcements from the host company is always great. I have always loved the stuff you learn about from the smaller companies. Everyone in the Partner/re seller area are the up and coming companies you want to learn about.
Thats where you will find me, trying to find that new solution in the rough.
Peters ramblings 