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Microsoft Teams — Features and Benefits for Your Business Collaboration
Designed to improve teamwork and boost collaboration, Teams is now used by over 120,000 worldwide. Teams provides a comprehensive, collaborative solution that boosts productivity and efficiency. With a cloud-based architecture, Teams can be accessed anywhere—and is supported on Windows, Mac, iOS, and Android. Office 365 comes in a free version and
Microsoft Updates Teams Members Limit to 5000
Have you heard about the increase in general availability of members in teams. Starting today, all new and existing teams can accommodate up to 5,000 members. That’s double the previous limit of 2,500 members! Larger groups can now collaborate effortlessly in a single team and leaders can connect with a
Top 7 Microsoft Office 365 Features
Top 7 Microsoft Office 365 Features Office 365, Microsoft’s cloud-enabled Office platform, provides a number of valuable utilities for both business and home users. As a subscription service that can be paid either monthly or annually, Office 365 provides tiered services and support depending on the solutions a user needs. Like
Why Your Company Needs Third-Party Solutions for Office 365 — An Osterman Research White Paper
Microsoft is attempting to deliver a cloud service that does many things for a broad range across productivity, security, compliance, and data protection. This is a significant task and has many complexities and inter-dependencies that must be traded off against one another. This Osterman Research whitepaper includes data from an
How to Master the Art of Hybrid Office 365 Management
New, Live Webinar Broadcast on Thursday, January 31, 2019, 2PM ET/11am PT. How to Master the Art of Hybrid Office 365 Management Studies show that majority of enterprises and organizations will run a Hybrid environment of MS Exchange and Office 365 as they migrate to the cloud. Many will run
7 Benefits of Moving Your Mailbox to Exchange Online
Is your enterprise still using on-premises email? It’s time to consider moving your operations to the cloud. You can easily migrate users to a Microsoft Exchange server online, an industry-leading cloud solution. Used by small businesses, medium-sized businesses, and Fortune 500 companies, Exchange Online has numerous features and advantages not
Pros and Cons of a Hybrid Exchange Environment
Last Updated On: Hybrid Exchange Environment Considerations | Understanding Exchange Hybrid Deployments Is your organization considering a hybrid Microsoft Office 365 deployment? There’s a lot to think about. In a hybrid exchange environment, an organization is able to connect its on-premises Microsoft Exchange users and cloud users into a single
Azure File Sync Now Generally Available for Hybrid File Storage
Call Now for Fast Cache After almost a year in public preview, Azure File Sync is now generally available. Like all good hybrid solutions, Azure File Sync solves both some problems unique to on-premises and to cloud while emphasizing the strengths of both options. Here’s how it works. Organizations centralize
Microsoft Q4 Growth, Earnings in Cloud Surpass Expectations
Growing Gains Microsoft recently released their Q4 earnings report, and the results are impressive. Analysts were projecting $29.21 billion in overall revenue but actual results were $30.09 billion, a 17% increase year-over-year. Per share, that shakes out to $1.13, a nickel more than the expected $1.08/share. Most legacy, non-cloud based
Free Whitepaper: Top 5 Methods to Reduce Office 365 License Costs
Office 365 licenses are incredibly diverse in both function and price. With a smart license strategy and a few tips, your organization can optimize license usage and minimize costs while simplifying day-to-day license administration. This whitepaper will illustrate 5 key areas where you can build this critical strategy. You’ll explore how
Have Teams and Skype for Business Reached Feature Parity?
Inequal to the Task As discussed frequently on this blog, updates to Teams have been pouring in over the last year. Teams will eventually replace Skype for Business, so it was big news at Microsoft’s Inspire partner show when it was announced that the two solutions had achieved feature parity.
Exchange Web Services Fossilizes, Loses Basic Authentication
Exchanged for a Graph – The word is out. Exchange Web Services (EWS) will receive no more feature updates, though security and “certain non-security” updates will continue going forward. The same applies to EWS’s SDKs for Java and .NET. EWS will remain available and supported in production environments, but the
Exchange Online Mailbox Sizing Gets A Fix (Sadly)
License to Overfill – When dealing with complex and constantly evolving technologies, sometimes documentation doesn’t accurately reflect a tech’s actual state. An example of this recently cropped up in Exchange Online mailbox sizing, but with a twist. This time, it’s the documentation that’s correct and the reality that doesn’t match
Free Brief: Complete Hybrid Office 365 Management for Federal, State, and Local Governments
Moving to the cloud is a big step for a government of any size. Don’t be surprised by the challenges ahead—let Cayosoft’s experience in hybrid government work for you. Discover the challenges faced by governments moving to the cloud. Learn about Cayosoft’s security, efficiency, and compliance benefits. See how other federal,
Microsoft Teams Goes Through a Growth Spurt
Like any 1-year-old, Microsoft Teams is growing at a cracking pace. New features are popping up by the day—so many that most can only be discussed in amalgam. Accordingly, here are our top twelve recent and any-day-now updates for Microsoft Teams. Why twelve? Depending on your setup, any one of