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Redirect Teams Auto Attendant Voicemail to a Channel
IMPORTANT! Please see this new Post as the method detailed below can stop working or will not work in some tenancy’s Microsoft 365 groups shared voicemail steps up to the plate for this particular use case scenario! Using Teams Voice with an Auto Attendant we used to route a call to “person in organization” if …
Read onRenaming a Microsoft Team
If you Need to rename a Team make sure you have reviewed this MS article first and understand the effects this change will have. When you create a Team you get a Group (M365 Group) and that Group provisions a set of pre-defined resources such as: The Group contains a lot of important information about …
Read onAzure MFA using hardware tokens
MFA (Multi factor authentication) What is it? Something you know – password Something you have – phone or token Something you are – biometrics (fingerprint, face scan) What? MFA is all the rage these days, and so it should be. It allows users to add multiple layers of security to protect their identity, their assets …
Read onWhere is Microsoft Forms data stored?
Microsoft Forms data is stored in servers in the United States. “Location of Customer Data at Rest for Core Online Services” How might this affect you? You might assume, for example, that if your Office 365 tenancy is in Canada that all your data resides in Canada as well. This, however, is not the case. …
Read onSet up MFA with Conditional Access
Setting up Multi Factor Authentication for your users in Azure AD has honestly never been easier. Bit of a shocker but it’s true! The process guides your users through a series of steps that require them to register their security info and choose an authentication method. The process can take less than 5mins. And they …
Read onOutlook Web Access ‘Contacts’ not working
This is a strange and ‘under documented’ issue that causes the ‘People’ feature (aka Contacts) in Outlook Web Access to not work. You are unable to create new contacts nor are you able to view info for existing contacts. There is a solution and there is a reason but it is buried in a small …
Read onRemove Personal OneDrive from Quick Launch
There’s only 1 OneDrive but if you have a Microsoft Business account it will appear twice in your Windows Quick Launch. Once as your “business” OneDrive which is appended with your company name and a second time as your “personal” OneDrive. This can often provide confusion to end users and I find that it is …
Read onConditional Access and Location Restrictions in Azure AD
Steps to Set Up Conditional Access to Named Locations What? You need/want to tighten security and protect your company data. So What? Perhaps you see suspicious sign-ins reported in Azure and/or your users work remotely and sign in from External (unknown) IP’s. You need to add some security to isolate data access locations without causing …
Read onMicrosoft Teams for Education During Covid-19
Schools are closed but Education doesn’t have to stop. Microsoft Teams for Education makes it possible to continue learning remotely during this Global “Social Distancing” time. With Teams for Education your Teachers will be able to: Teams for Education includes the necessary tools to manage classes and remote learning such as Assignments, Grade books and …
Read onHow To Pin an Application To Microsoft Teams Navigation
What is a “Pinned Application”? “Pinned Applications” in Teams appear in the Navigation Menu. The purpose of this post is to outline the process of “Pinning” applications. This is accomplished by using the Teams Apps Permission and Setup Policies from the Teams Admin portal. Why Would I Want to “Pin” an Application in Teams? Your …
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