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Microsoft Ignite 2018 Session Recordings, Handy YouTube Playlists

Published 03/10/2018

Good news, it looks like all the Ignite 2018 recordings have now been made “public” on YouTube and categories into handy playlists Check them out on the Ignite YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrhJmfAGQ5K81XQ8_od1iTg/playlists Of particular interest for me and followers of this blog will be the Intelligent Communications Sessions Playlist with 57 sessions: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AwKF5P1dNU&list=PLQXpv_NQsPIC5b6d_MGGQ08U-72OuoWkZ Slides for most […]

Microsoft Ignite – The Tour, covering 17 cities around the world

Published 03/10/2018

Microsoft Ignite is over, but there is still hundreds of hours of recorded sessions available at the Microsoft Tech Community. If you didn’t make it, or you did but you are already looking for your next Microsoft tech event fix, Microsoft Ignite is going on tour with 17 regional events, 100+ deep dive sessions and […]

Ignite Session Blog: BRK3124 ‘Meetings First’ – Skype for Business on-prem customers can take advantage of Teams Meetings

Published 02/10/2018

This Ignite session wasn’t until the Friday, but for me, it’s one of the biggest Microsoft Teams announcements at Ignite. This unlocks a great way for a lot of existing Skype for Business Server customers to get some of the real Microsoft Teams experience and business benefits today with little change to users workflows. […]

Skype for Business Server 2015 CU7 Now Supports Blocking external NTLM (username/password auth) for Security

Published 02/10/2018

An open potential issue with SfB server has been the potential to get a list of accounts, try lots of random passwords and lock those accounts out. With the new Get/Set-CsAuthConfig cmdlets in CU7, you can shut down NTLM and Forms Based Auth externally. For more PowerShell information: Get-CsAuthConfig https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/office-docs-powershell/blob/master/skype/skype-ps/skype/Get-CsAuthConfig.md Set-CsAuthConfig https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/office-docs-powershell/blob/master/skype/skype-ps/skype/Set-CsAuthConfig.md Then, you configure […]

Microsoft Ignite POD2031 Recording – Microsoft Teams News Summary – Podcast Studio, Friday

Published 01/10/2018

We’ve just about recovered from all the news and fun at Microsoft Ignite last week. On the Friday I hosted a podcast with guests, Pat Richard – Principal Architect, Microsoft UC, VOSS, Josh Blalock – Principal Consulting Engineer at CDW and Stale Hansen, CEO and Principal Cloud Architect, CloudWay AS. We went over all the […]

From Oct. 1st, new 500 seats or less Office 365 customers will be Microsoft Teams and will have no Skype for Business Online

Published 28/09/2018

During the massive flood of Microsoft news this week from Microsoft Ignite, something that has been posted publicly on the Microsoft partner forum is about the more active transition from SfBO to Microsoft Teams: Skype for Business to Microsoft Teams upgrade: We recently announced that the roadmap for bringing Skype for Business Online features and […]

Skype for Business Server 2019 news from Microsoft Ignite

Published 27/09/2018 - 1 Comment

If there is one thing to take away from Microsoft Ignite this year, it’s that Microsoft Teams is Microsoft’s future direction for Collaboration and Unified Communications. There were over 50 sessions around Microsoft Teams but only one on Skype for Business Server. However, there is another version of Skype for Business server that is imminently […]

Microsoft Teams Monthly Podcast, Live from Microsoft Ignite

Published 27/09/2018

It’s been a great week so far at Microsoft Ignite with lots of Microsoft Teams news. Patrick Watson from UC Today and I got to sit down at Ignite and record a podcast covering all the news and talking about how increasingly the Microsoft Teams story is integrated into the Microsoft 365 story. You […]

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