Our third post will focus on the administration in Stream. We will start with the user settings. Microsoft Stream User Settings Each user has access to stream settings where they could modify and enhance their own stream experience. To access user settings, select the gear settings icon and click on My settings. Modifying the settings will localized stream for each particular user. From the My Settings Page, you can select if you’d like to receive email notifications whenever video upload process is completed or if other contents has been shared with you from across the organization. You can ..read more

We will continue our journey by exploring the supported file formats that we can use. Microsoft Stream supports many, many video formats. You can upload for example MPEG-2 files, MP4 files, QuickTime movies, Windows Media Video etc. To see the full list please visit Microsoft Stream formats. If you want to upload a video in a format that is not currently supported, you have some options. There are online services that will allow you to take a video in one format and save it in another format and there are also desktop tools that you can download for this purpose. Add Description to Video ..read more

Microsoft Stream is an enterprise video service that allows you to create and share videos securely within your organization. You can use Stream to collaborate with videos using the apps that you already know how to use, like SharePoint and browser. Microsoft Stream includes Enterprise search with built-in smart search tools and intelligent searching. That makes it easy not just to create and upload content but to be able to find the content you need when you need it. If you’ve thought about uploading your videos to another video service outside of your firewall but been worried abou ..read more

Microsoft Teams is really popular product but can be overwhelming when it comes to migrating them from one tenant to another. In this post we will see how to migrate Microsoft Teams from tenant to tenant using BitTitan. BitTitan MigrationWiz allows you to migrate mailboxes, documents, public folders, and other workloads across a wide variety of migration endpoints. Before we continue there are some things to keep in mind. BITTITAN ACCOUNT If you don’t have an account you can easily create one by visiting this link Register BitTitan account LICENSING On BitTitan Pricing page you will ..read more

The main thing that most people will do in Microsoft Teams is engage in a conversation with other team members. So let’s see how that works. First I want to switch over to Service Roadmap channel. This is what a normal conversation channel looks like. Since our last post I’ve taken the time to fill out some conversations here in this channel. We see a conversation consisting of several messages with threaded replies. I will switch over to the Ideas channel which is still empty, so we can see what it looks like to start a new conversation. So how to start a conversation is probably pretty obvi ..read more

We continue our journey and in this post we will explore team settings and create and manage channels. We can access teams settings by going back to the three dot menu (…) and selecting manage team. From here we can really control all of the settings for this particular team. We already discussed about Members and Pending Requests tab in previous part. Moving across our tabs the next tab that we need to cover is the Channels. We will cover channel creation later in this post but on this tab we can see all the channels, we can create new and delete channels. If you click on the Deleted, you wi ..read more

The core part of working in Microsoft Teams is communicating with a group of people and that group of people is called a team. In this post, we’ll see how to create a team. Just be aware, you might not need to actually create a team yourself. You might just join teams that were created by somebody else. But if you do need to make a team, this is how it works. Keep in mind that before you can create a new team, you must be able to create a new Office 365 Group. Some tenants allow any user to create a group while others control group creation. To get more info on how you can block group creation ..read more

This post will show how to get set up with the free version of Teams. This is for the users who don’t have Office 365 subscription. The free version is available for organizations up to 300 users and supports chats, audio calling, guest user access, the Office Online apps, and includes 10 GB of storage for files within channels (SharePoint Online) and 2 GB per user (OneDrive for Business) for personal storage. The main reason why Microsoft introduced a free version of Microsoft Team was to pull as many people away from competitive services like Slack as possible. Usually, when a company offers ..read more

Teams is an online collaborative communication environment where members of an organization can have real-time conversations, share files and plan meetings through video chat. In the next ca 10 posts we will deep dive into teams, we’ll start by seeing how users can access Teams on the web or with the desktop application. We’ll see how you can organize your coworkers into teams and initiate conversations that all team members can contribute to. We’ll see how to share files and even edit certain files in collaboration with your teammates. Then we’ll use the search tool t ..read more

Office 365 retention polices are giving us ability to recover data in the event of data loss. Due to the issues of managing high data volume, ensuring data retention is critical for organizations. Without a robust backup solution, companies expose themselves to a multitude of risks. Usually when organizations need to preserve e-mail or documents, they move copies of the data to external archive system. This was acceptable because products did not have their own archiving capabilities like they have today in Office 365 (e.g. Sharepoint). With this possibility, we don’t need to copy emails ..read more