Practical 365 Podcast - Microsoft 365, Copilot & Cybersecurity News & Discussions

Join us for the first Practical 365 podcast episode of 2023 - with Paul and Steve discussing what skills you need for the upcoming year - and does it matter if you learn skills you never use? Plus we talk about the best features that arrived in Microsoft 365 throughout the last twelve months, ranging from critical security features you can't ignore to emerging AI capabilities.

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In this week's show - the final of 2022, we take a peek at the new Teams Premium licence add-on and discuss what value it brings. Exchange Online PowerShell v1 is on the way out - be warned - and a new Communities app - not Yammer - comes to Teams; plus much more

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On the show this week, Microsoft have just finished their big Microsoft Partner and MVP airlift for Microsoft 365 technologies, so as the year ends, there's fewer announcements.

However - as Yammer becomes Viva Engage, we ask: Should rolling out Viva Engage be your New Year's resolution? And - if it is - what are the pitfalls to avoid.

And as always, we've got the best of the Message Center and Roadmap news that you cannot miss.

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In this weeks episode, we examine the new feature for Teams: Games. Exchange gets patches - for all versions from 2013 to 2019, but thankfully no CUs until next year. Plus Teams gets a bit more feature parity, and we chat about Excel (briefly)

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This week on the show, Steve and Paul are joined by Sigi Jagott, long-time MVP and Exchange Server expert, to find out why, and what the best practices are when upgrading on-premises servers to Exchange 2019. And, finally, cross-tenant migrations are possible natively for mailboxes and OneDrive for Business accounts. We discuss and find out if there's any caveats. Teams arrives on Linux (again!), and we discuss Azure AD resiliency and Microsoft's slowing cloud growth..

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On this week's show: Exchange Must Die, according to security experts. SharePoint Syntex is dead, long live Microsoft Syntex. The Metaverse isn't dead yet; AI is coming to learn your job... and Microsoft's new creative tools show a lot of promise.

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 In this week's show, Paul Robichaux and myself take a short break from Ignite 2022 to discuss the biggest announcements, and take a deep-dive into what these actually will provide to your organization, and which new features to watch; with a few fun moments along the way. 

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In this week's episode, fresh from TEC, Paul Robichaux chats with Steve Goodman about the most useful learnings and contrast how independent conferences compare to Microsoft Ignite. And MEC - was it one last hurrah from Exchange, or will it be a regular thing? The Power Platform conference happened too, and there's some big announcements. We go in depth into the biggest hitters.

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This week we discuss Microsoft's guidance aimed at your business for how to do Hybrid work. Is it great guidance? In short, it's not bad - but is it too late? We discuss exactly why and why you should be interested in it.  Teams licensing changes - may make you cry with joy or sadness depending on what you need - take a listen to find out why. And some great new features finally arrive in Teams you've been waiting for years for.

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In this week's show, Paul and Steve discuss the new Apple Silicon version of Teams: It was here, now it isn't - why? Exchange Server receives security updates; with Facebook getting a bashing for their Metaverse contributions, will Mesh for Microsoft Teams ever see the light of day; and Exchange Online changes that might affect software you use. Plus - Sean McAvinue and Jason Jacobo join us to help answer the question - what did you leave behind in your migration?

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