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Microsoft Ignite 2025 – The Future of AI and Modern Work In this post I like to provide a headup for the next Microsoft Ignite which takes places from November 18–21, 2025, the global Microsoft partners and community will gather at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, California for this year’s Microsoft Ignite. With an optional pre-day on November 17, the event promises once again to be the central stage for Microsoft’s vision of the future.

[BLOG] Microsoft Ignite 2025 – The Future of AI and Modern Work 🚀✨ From San Francisco to the cloud: AI takes center stage. My take on what to expect 👉 erik365.blog 🌍💡 #MSIgnite #Microsoft365 #AI #ModernWork #Teams #Copilot

Microsoft Teams Contact Center by Imagicle – Certified Solution Overview & Key Advantages Imagicle offers a third-party contact center solution for Microsoft Teams, integrating advanced features beyond native capabilities. It includes omnichannel support, AI-driven automation, compliance tools, and deep analytics within a unified portal. This solution enhances communication efficiency, allowing organizations to better meet their operational needs and improve customer satisfaction.

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An Overview of People Skills in Microsoft 365 In this post, I want to provide an overview of People Skills in Microsoft 365. First of all, what is People Skills? To keep it short, it is an AI-driven Microsoft 365 capability that helps organizations manage and view employee skills. It leverages Microsoft 365 Copilot, Microsoft 365 services, and Viva to create personalized skill profiles and enable skills-based experiences…

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More granular external access control coming to Microsoft Teams Microsoft is adding more granular configurations to External Access in Microsoft Teams. The wording "External Access" is misleading, in my opinion, because it is "just" federated chat. Nevertheless, if you are looking for ways to make External Access and Teams federated chats (1:1, group chats) a bit more secure, there is a new feature you might like to read about: …

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Microsoft Teams Private Channel and Compliance Changes Microsoft announced major changes to private channels in Microsoft Teams on the official Teams blog and in Microsoft 365's Message Center Notification MC1134737 of which you should know. What are the upcoming changes? The limit or private channels within a Team will be increased from 30 to 1000. The limit from 250 users per private channel will be increased…

[BLOG] Microsoft Teams Private Channel and Compliance Changes #MicrosoftTeams #Microsoft365 #Collaboration #Change

Disable legacy auth protocols to prevent bypassing MFA and Conditional Access. Get started using Microsoft Entra.
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Microsoft Copilot in Teams Calls without transcription or recording Microsoft Teams Phone users can make use of Copilot during calls but without enabling transcription or audio recording. This new capability is ideal for sensitive conversations where discretion is key but productivity must remain high. Source: Once enabled by an admin in calling policies which (soon) should be found in the Teams Admin Center (TAC), users simply click the Copilot button in the header menu to activate it.

[BLOG] Microsoft Copilot in Teams Calls without transcription or recording #Microsoft365Copilot #MicrosoftTeams #Calling #Telephony #AI #Productivity

Impact of URL Rewriting on Microsoft Meeting Links Microsoft announced that meeting join links are validated. This is important to know if you have any mail security, proxy, or firewall in place that rewrites URLs. If meeting join links are rewritten and the check confirms this, the meeting join will probably fail. Rewritten meeting join URLs will be marked as malicious and opening the meeting link may be prevented.

[BLOG] Impact of URL Rewriting on Microsoft Meeting Links #MicrosoftTeams #Security #Roadmap #Notice

Outlook Tip: Restore Alphabetical Order for Your Folders in the New Outlook Client If you’ve switched to the new Microsoft Outlook experience and noticed your folder organization behaving strangely - you're not alone. I recently noticed that a custom folder order had silently taken over my Outlook layout. Each new subfolder I created, even within existing folders like “Suppliers,” would appear at the very top of the list, ignoring alphabetical order. For instance, a folder starting with “M” wasn’t landing mid-list as expected.

[BLOG] Outlook Tip: Restore Alphabetical Order for Your Folders in the New Outlook Client #MicrosoftOutlook #Microsoft365 #OutlookOnTheWeb #Outlook #Mail #Tip

Effektive und effiziente Besprechungen in Microsoft Teams – mit Struktur und smarter Unterstützung In diesem Blogbeitrag möchte ich über das Thema effiziente und effektive Besprechungen schreiben. Ich denke, dass diese Grundlagen auch in Verbindung mit Microsoft Teams, Microsoft 365 Copilot etc. vielen schon bekannt sein dürften, aber trotz allem häufig im Alltag vielleicht in Vergessenheit geraten und kein Standard sind. In einer Zeit, in der virtuelle Meetings zum Alltag gehören, ist es wichtiger denn je, Besprechungen bewusst zu gestalten – effizient, zielgerichtet und mit echtem Mehrwert für alle Beteiligten.

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Transitioning Teams Android Devices to AOSP Device Management from Device Administrator This blog post is about the required transition of Teams Android devices to the Android Open Source Project (AOSP) Device Management in Microsoft Intune. This is a new mobile device enrollment meth…

Updated - Just checked my Teams Phone status and noticed that the firmware is upgraded - So I added a screenshot to the blog post

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Key Takeaways from Microsoft Teams at Build 2025 Microsoft's annual major developer conference took place. Now it is time to recap, and I would like to provide you with some of my highlights regarding Microsoft Teams Calling, Meetings, Devices, and Copilot. I will provide an overview. For more details, I recommend reading the full announcement or the documentation if it is already available. Let's start! Copilot- / AI-related…

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Give us feedback on Exchange Online Cmdlet changes and Rest API availability for Admin Scenarios | Microsoft Community Hub We prepared two surveys on Exchange Online Cmdlet changes and Rest API availability for Admin Scenarios.  

Exchange PG looking for feedback on 1) EXOM PS "cmdlet modernization", 2) REST API for EXO Management techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/exchang... #MSExchange #PowerShell

The Future of Modern Collaboration and Communication: Key Trends from Microsoft’s Work Trend Index 2025 In this post I like to point out some key trends and contents of Microsoft's Work Trend Index for 2025. In today's fast-paced work environment, the way we collaborate and communicate is constantly evolving. Microsoft's Work Trend Index for 2025 sheds light on some significant trends that are shaping the future of work. What are the key highlights? In this chapter I like to summarize some key highlights which seem to represent the current work situation and trends, mentioned in…

[BLOG] The Future of Modern Collaboration and Communication: Key Trends from Microsoft's Work Trend Index 2025 #Microsoft #WorkTrendIndex #2025 #Communication #Collaboration

Microsoft Outlook for Windows Introduces Shared Mailboxes as Accounts Managing shared mailboxes in Outlook for Windows is about to become more convenient. Microsoft is rolling out a new feature that allows shared mailbox users and delegates to add the mailbox as an account, streamlining access and settings management. Starting in May 2025, this update will be gradually deployed through August 2025. Users with Full Access will notice a new…

[BLOG] Microsoft Outlook for Windows Introduces Shared Mailboxes as Accounts #MicrosoftOutlook #Roadmap #Microsoft365

Configure Microsoft Teams Calling Plan Spend Limit In this post I like to highlight that a new configuration option for calling plans appeared in the Microsoft Teams Admin Center. To be more precise, in the calling policies. As you can see in the screenshot below : Now you can configure PSTN Spend limits to set a monthly limit the overall consumption - and costs - for making PSTN calls beyond the included calling plan amount.

[BLOG] Configure Microsoft Teams Calling Plan Spend Limit #MicrosoftTeams #Calling #Telephony #Voice #VoIP #CallingPlans

New Call Waiting Beep in Microsoft Teams Microsoft announced an audio indicator for another incoming voice call so that you are going to know that there is another (second) caller waiting for you to answer a call. In the current roadmap it is said that the beep is a soft tone in order not to disrupt or disturb to intense. The feature is planned to be rolled out starting from June 2025 onwards.

[BLOG] New Call Waiting Beep in Microsoft Teams #MicrosoftTeams #Calling #Voice #Telephony #VoIP #Roadmap

Great update! 👍
„… Remote contact management for Teams Phone devices …
IT admins can now remotely manage contacts … on their Teams Phone devices. Admins can push a set of contacts from the Teams Admin Center (TAC) to Teams Android-based devices as speed dial contacts.“ 🎉

Microsoft Build 2025 In this post I like to highlight Microsoft's upcoming developer conference, Microsoft Build 2025 which will take place from Monday, May 19 to Thursday, May 22, 2025. As usual it will be an hybrid event, so on-site in Seattle and online. Topic areas: AI, Copilot and Agents Cloud Platform Data Analytics Developer Tools and .NET Security Windows I have registered for Build 2025 and will attend online depending on my schedule and other appointments.

Microsoft Build 2025 will take place from Monday, May 19 to Thursday, May 22, 2025 #Microsoft #MSBuild #Developer #Conference #Event

Introducing more control over Direct Send in Exchange Online | Microsoft Community Hub Introducing more control over Direct Send in Exchange Online.  

Introducing more control over Direct Send in Exchange Online | Microsoft Community Hub! 🦋
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Microsoft 365 apps will prompt users to back up files in OneDrive Microsoft announced a major update regarding Microsoft 365 apps prompting users to back up their files in Microsoft OneDrive. It is associated with the Microsoft message center ID MC1053121. Eligible users will be prompted in Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint to enroll in OneDrive Known Folder Move (KFM). Public Preview rollout will begin mid-April 2025 and complete by late April 2025.

Microsoft 365 apps will prompt users to back up files in OneDrive

Microsoft announced a major update regarding Microsoft 365 apps prompting users to back up their files in Microsoft OneDrive. It is associated with the Microsoft message center ID MC1053121. Eligible users will be prompted in…

Exciting Updates Coming to the Microsoft 365 Developer Program - Microsoft 365 Developer Blog We are excited to share a preview on upcoming updates on the Microsoft 365 Developer Program.

Exciting Updates Coming to the Microsoft 365 Developer Program

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Mark your calendars folks! I've been reviewing everyone's content and we have some great content for you! The agenda is public and there’s no cost. Hope to see you!

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@microsoft.com, please ease off the @microsoft-copilot.bsky.social accelerator a little, assign a few resources and fix these essential things. The not-so-new-now Microsoft Teams 2.0 was pitched as performant and snappy. Can we get back to that?
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Teams Calendar Revamped with Outlook UI Components The Teams calendar app is being refreshed in November 2024 when Teams takes on the calendar UI used by OWA and the new Outlook for Windows.

According to Microsoft 365 message center notification MC1041464, Microsoft will make the new (Outlook-based) calendar the default from May 2025. People can still revert to the old Teams calendar, but eventually that app is likely to be removed.

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Microsoft 365 Copilot reasoning agents: Researcher & Analyst In this post I like to point out big news on Microsoft 365 Copilot. The recent advancement in Microsoft 365 Copilot includes the introduction of "reasoning agents," namely Microsoft 365 Copilot Researcher and Analyst. These agents take AI assistance to the next level by providing advanced reasoning capabilities. The Researcher helps users find and compile information from various sources, while the Analyst offers in-depth analysis and insights, transforming the way users engage with data and research tasks.

[BLOG] Microsoft 365 Copilot reasoning agents: Researcher & Analyst #Microsoft365Copilot #Microsoft365 #AI #AiAgents #AiReasoning

New Microsoft Teams Migration Tool to enhance Businesses in Microsoft 365 Tenant-to-Tenant Migrations? A recent addition to the Microsoft 365 Roadmap has caught my attention: Microsoft seems to develop a migration tool or connector for Microsoft Teams that could significantly support businesses navigating complex scenarios such as mergers or divestitures in context of Microsoft 365 Tenant-to-Tenant migrations? According to Roadmap ID 485709, the rollout for this is set to begin in May 2025.

[BLOG] New Microsoft Teams Migration Tool to enhance Businesses in Microsoft 365 Tenant-to-Tenant Migrations?

#MicrosoftTeams #Microsoft365 #Roadmap #Migration #TenantToTenant

The next chapter: Moving from Skype to Microsoft Teams   | Microsoft 365 Blog We will be retiring Skype in May 2025 to focus on Microsoft Teams (free), our modern communications and collaboration hub.  Learn more.

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Microsoft Teams Direct Routing SIP call flow diagram tool In this post I like to notify you about the upcoming release of the SIP call flow diagram tool which could help you to troubleshoot and analyze SIP call issues in Teams Direct Routing deployments. It will provide SIP call details for calls not older than 30 days and the ones which last(ed) longer than 30 minutes. So you cannot yet directly analyze each and every Direct Routing call by now on this way.

[BLOG] Microsoft Teams Direct Routing SIP call flow diagram tool ⚙️🧰🛠️🔎 #MicrosoftTeams #MicrosoftTeamsDirectRouting #Calling #Telephony #Troubleshooting #Roadmap

How to secure your Microsoft Teams External Access? In the ever-evolving landscape of digital communication, Microsoft Teams continues to be a pivotal tool for collaboration. One of the most compelling recent advancements is the enhanced External Access feature, which offers more granular configuration options. What is External Access in Microsoft Teams? Microsoft Teams External Access allows organizations to communicate with external users via Teams chats. In my opinion the name “External Access” is confusing.

[BLOG] How to secure your Microsoft Teams External Access? ✍️ 🔐 #MicrosoftTeams #Microsoft365 #Security