What to use when: Teams shared channels, private channels, Teams and guests

If you’re unfamiliar with Home Assistant, it is an open-source home automation platform with A LOT of integrations and extensibility. I’ve previously written about being able to integrate Microsoft Teams with Alexa for changing your status, using Power Apps to display my current presence and calendar, Power Automate to change…

While I’m not a developer, I do use the Microsoft Graph API quite a bit in various workflows and apps I build or contribute to. Because of this, I want to stay current on what is being added/changed/removed in the Microsoft Graph — and for this Microsoft offers a publicly…

Now that we’ve all agreed that Lists is far superior and there is absolutely no reason for you to continue using Planner at all, ever again, under any circumstance… it’s time to start migrating our tasks to their new home. (Let’s be real here — there’s still valid scenarios where…

I’ve been working with Microsoft Planner for many years, since it was originally revealed to the MVP community as “Project Highlander” around 2016. We needed a new task management system back then. Microsoft Project was too expensive and difficult to use properly without training, Project Online was providing a cloud…

Windows 11 is here, and as always there are different attitudes as to when it should be deployed. Some will want it instantly, some won’t care, and some will be resistant. For my organisation we didn’t want to force people to upgrade until they felt comfortable, so I created an…

Previously I was one of those users who did their best to live with the old/original/legacy Edge that dated back to Windows 8 (originally codenamed “Project Spartan”). However, I would often find myself using Chrome, especially because of the multiple profile capabilities. From time to time I would need to…

The answer: very. While an active Twitter conversation continued over what practical purposes you could have for setting your presence and status message in Microsoft Teams as mentioned in my previous blog post, I wondered — could I set my presence status using Alexa? The Challenge Given I have the speakers everywhere…

Yes, you read that right. Let’s acknowledge the sheer importance of what you’re about to read. Think of the cultural, teamwork, and employee benefits. This is possibly the most important thing you can implement as a user, in your Microsoft 365.