Microsoft 365 insights from the field

A blog by Peter Schmidt about Security, Identity, Email Protection, Compliance, AI & Copilot, and Tenant-to-Tenant migrations

A series of new webinars from Microsoft Security

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The Microsoft Security teams are doing a great job with a continuous series of webinars for everyone, who wish to keep up-to-date to Microsoft Security related products. The latest series of events is: Microsoft x Secure 2020 is scheduled for Oct. 22 – 23 2020, along with additional 21 upcoming webinars scheduled for the rest of the year, within these areas: Azure Security Center Azure Sentinel Microsoft Threat Protection Azure Network Security See the complete …

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Use OneDrive for Business and SharePoint for Teams Meeting Recordings

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Announced at Microsoft Ignite 2020, Microsoft is now changing the way Teams Meeting Recordings are stored. As you might already be familiar with, all recordings of Teams meetings have been stored in Microsoft Stream, which is the Office 365 Enterprise Video service, that can be used to share videos thoughout your organization. Some limits of Stream is that videos are not able to be shared with external, so any external meeting participants are not able …

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Microsoft Teams Calling Plans is now available in 6 additional countries

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Microsoft has just made Teams Calling Plans available in 6 additional countries, as of today (Oct. 1st, 2020). The new countries to the list are: Austria Denmark Italy Portugal Sweden Switzerland Calling Plans have been available in other countries for some time now, such as Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, Ireland, Netherlands, Puerto Rico, Spain, United Kingdom, and United States. This means that Calling Plans can now be added to users, which are homed in any …

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How to update the Lenovo ThinkSmart View device

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I recently bought the Lenovo ThinkSmart View, which is an All-in-one dedicated Microsoft Teams device. The device is meant to be used by only one person and not to be compared to a meeting room device, which we see used in meeting rooms. I use this device as an additional productivity device, that sits permanently under my monitors and it makes it very easy for me to attend meetings and take calls. The device was …

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How to enable Plus Addressing in Exchange Online

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One of the Exchange-related announcements from this week’s Microsoft Ignite 2020, was that Exchange Online now supports Plus Addressing, also known as “sub addressing”, “+ address” or “dynamic email aliasing”. It is a long-awaiting feature by many and it is now available in all tenants. So What is Plus Address ? Plus addressing allows you to add a suffix to the local-part of your email address to create a dynamic child address or disposable address …

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