Understanding App Permission Policies So what’s the purpose of app permission policies? Well, this is going to basically let you go through and control exactly what applications are available within teams, okay? You can essentially go through and allow or block specific apps that you want. The apps can be published by Microsoft, they can be third party, they can even be what are called lob right line of business, right. When you block an application, the users who are basically affected by the policy are not going to be…

Understanding Team Rooms Okay, so what exactly is a Microsoft team room? So first off, this is a scenario in which maybe your company has some different conference rooms, some small areas where you want meetings to happen or very large areas where you want meetings to happen. They go from large conference rooms down to what we call small huddle, areas where people can actually have equipment it and host a meeting with somebody else across the world using high definition video audio. They can share content, and it’s…

Deployment Options for Teams clients. Windows, MacOS, Linux, Web and Mobile Does provide a variety of ways to get teams out in your environment so that your users can get on and start having meetings and messaging and all that. Microsoft provides some downloadable clients, windows, Macintosh as well as Linux and we’ll talk more about that coming up here in a minute. As well as a web based version to deal with teams, which I’m a big fan of. I really do love their web based version. I love…

Performing cleanup to prepare for Azure AD connect Okay? So as we move closer to being able to connect our onpremise Active Directory to Azure ad, there are some things you need to understand. First off, Active Directory allows certain things that Azure ad does not allow. And if you’re going to synchronize user information, group information out to the cloud so that you can do seamless SSO, you’ve got to fix some things. You got to make sure sure things are clean. So what we’re going to show you…

A foundation of the Microsoft Cloud Services Okay? So I want to talk with you now about the concept of cloud computing. Okay? So first off and foremost, the concept of cloud computing is really not a new concept. A lot of people think it is a new concept. It’s not. First off, the term cloud has been around for a very long time. Although the term cloud cloud now definitely means a few different things than it used to 20 years ago, the concept of cloud computing now is…

Foundation of Active Directory Domains So I want to start out by doing a drawing to help everybody understand some of the fundamentals of where the industry was, where it is, and kind of where things are flowing right now, especially from the standpoint of Microsoft. So I want to kind of take you back in time a little bit and help you understand. It will really help you understand where things are moving right now if you can also sort of look at where things were at one time….

Understanding Cloud App Security What exactly is Cloud App Security? Well, you might have heard of the term CASB before. That acronym that stands for Cloud Access Security Broker. Well, basically, Microsoft Cloud app security is Microsoft’s version of a CASB. Okay? So the goal here is to allow us to focus on our environment and the traffic that’s flowing within our environment. Whether it’s traffic within our internal environment flowing to different websites, traffic flowing to the cloud environment, different web based applications, it’s important for us to have…

Planning for Windows as a Service With windows. Ten. Corporations are now dealing with something called Windows as a service, right. No longer are we in an environment where we push out a single operating system to all of our desktop or our end user computers and then expect that that’s going to sit there for anywhere from three to five years. Instead we’re getting version here and refreshes at a very fast rate now and Windows as a service is constantly updating in that environment, right? So it’s a…

Managing Devices with MDM Oftentimes with organizations, your end users are going to want to be able to use mobile devices. Now, those could be mobile devices that you own and control or they could be mobile devices that the end user has that they would like to have access to their corporate resources on. Fortunately, there is a solution to help us extend our security into those mobile devices. That’s mobile device management, right? The ability for us to go out there and actually manage these and use mobile…

Applying Number format Just as we can apply colors and fonts and so forth, we can also apply formatting to numbers. You see, for instance, column A is a number column, but it hasn’t got any comma separator values, any thousand separators, whereas column H does. So let’s have a quick look and see what you can format your numbers with. Well, first of all there is the general. This is the standard default number, so no commas. Or you could say I want a number which allows a number…