This Week in Teams, Craig and Jay jump into the October 2021 Microsoft Teams Team product blog where ALL the goodies that were announced for commercial and US Government tenants. We jumped into the Government announcements first, because Jay wanted to and because for the first time in forever, there seem to be a lot of them. We discussed how often times the Government tenants feel left behind in all the great teams news, but now it seems Microsoft is trying hard for speedier delivery times. Then we jumped through all of the end-user focused features, and a few management features, throughout the commercial tenants.

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#OTSTWIT What’s New in Teams? October 2021 Edition – Episode 37

Yehudah Sunshine is the Chief Evangelist at ohttps://www.odi-x.com/dix, a Content Disarm and Reconstruction specialist in the world of cybersecurity. Continuing the IT security series, Yehudah brings a base-line understanding of ransomware, a greater-than 30 year old technological trade, which required the physical acceptance and use of floppy disks, and now it hardly requires the installation of an app or opening of the wrong email. Join Yehudah on this episode as we learn about Ransomware's history and why you need to pay attention to it.

Buzzkill E18 – What is Ransomware with Yehudah Sunshine – IT Security Series

This episode is the first in a 6-part series where Craig and Jay look into Microsoft Viva, the new Employee Experience platform that brings together communications, knowledge, learning, resources, and insights in the flow of work. They are joined by Eddie Lee, the EduTech North America lead for AvePoint, in discussing Connections, Topics, Insights, Learning, and Ally.io, Viva's four core modules and its soon-to-be fifth, announced as a recent acquisition by Microsoft.

#OTSTWIT Viva Intro with Eddie Lee – Episode 36

This Week in Teams, Craig and Jay jump into the September 2021 Microsoft Teams Team product blog where ALL the goodies that were announced for commercial and US Government tenants

#OTSTWIT What’s New in Teams? September 2021 Edition – Episode 35

 In this episode of Buzzkill, Thomas Heinz joins Hunter and Jay to continue the identity discussion. This time, we dig in and talk about the importance of MFA and even uncover a little of the mystery of why it often feels like we're either getting constant requests for an MFA check or following no distinguishable pattern. Either way, Thomas, Jay, and Hunter dig deep on this one and try to keep this as non-technical as possible while deep diving into a highly technical topic. Join us, and let us know what questions you have so we can get you answers! 

Buzzkill E17 – Why Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) with Thomas Heinz – IT Security Series

July 26-30, 2021, marked the first wholly-in-person conference for the SharePoint community in a l-o-n-g time. While only a couple hundred people attended, the attendees and speakers alike all seemed to agree that in-person was very much missed. To kick off the live podcast recording, Craig and Jay discussed the conference and some of their presentations, with a focus on SharePoint to SharePoint Online Migration and the importance of Information Architecture as you change versions. They were then joined by Microsoft Office Apps & Services MVP William "Andy" Huneycutt to discuss his on-the-go-ready production studio for virtual training and web meetings.

#OTSTWIT Live at SharePoint Fest Chicago with Andy Huneycutt

Microsoft Teams is Captain Marvel, SharePoint is Captain America. Do you agree? Who is your M365 Iron Man? The Hulk? On this episode of This Week in Teams, Jay and I talked with Oluwatosin Anishere (Tosi), a technical consultant for Wragby Business Solutions. Technologies in Nigeria. She specialize in Microsoft Azure, and Microsoft 365, also a Microsoft certified trainer. In this episode Tosi tells us who are her M365 Marvel superheroes.

Virtual Africa Road Trip with Oluwatosin Anishere (Tosi) – #OTSTWIT E33

This Week in Teams, Craig and Jay jump into the April 2021 Microsoft Teams Team product blog where ALL the goodies that were announced for commercial and US Government tentants

This Week in Teams – April 2021 Product Update + Star Wars Talk – #OTSTWIT E23

This week on Buzzkill we talk about Identity Management and its relationship to the modern IT infrastructure with we Stephanie Donahue - a Microsoft MVP and Regional Director and the President at PAIT Group. This conversation is an excellent summary of Identity security and how things have changed, especially with a transition to the cloud.

Buzzkill E14 – Identity Management with Stephanie Donahue – IT Security Series

This week on buzzkill, we continue the IT Security Series with Liam Cleary, talking about Personal Security and how it relates to not only the security of yourself and your family but your organization's data. We hope you enjoy this conversation as we traverse everything from wifi to social media and relate it all to the many important tools and techniques your organization should take advantage.

Buzzkill E13 – PERSEC with Liam Cleary – IT Security Series

On the heels of the global breach using SolarWinds, we decided this would be a good time to bring Security to Buzzkill. In this episode Hunter and Jay provide an introduction to our IT Security Series. As we explore the topic, we will talk to ACTUAL security experts about why it is so important to plan for security, not only as an IT professional or programmer, but as an individual.

Buzzkill E12 – What is security? IT Security Series

In this episode, we spoke with Amie Seisay about considerations organizations should have when building their IT teams. We had a great time exploring some of the reasons why, when it comes to strategy, communication, change management and other aspects of project implementation, having a diverse team is essential. We all agreed organizations really need more than developers and administrators to get things done. Training, communication and project management skills are fundamentally necessary in getting things done!

Buzzkill with Amie Seisay – Defining your Information Technology Team Roles & Responsibility

This episode explores important aspects of communication, including how communication between IT and the organization is vital both to implementations and ongoing operations. Though the stereotype of the cynical, introverted and sheltered IT admin may have some legitimacy, there are increasingly many kinds of people IT. Though this means there may be more sociality and better communication skills among IT members than in years past, it’s still very important to hone in on and improve IT communication skills on a regular basis.

Buzzkill E9 – Communications Pitfalls and Information Technology

Jay and Craig talked about of the newest features rolling out, or soon to be rolling out for the Microsoft Teams platform from Lists to Breakout Rooms to Meeting Publishing and Ignite. There's a lot to unpack, This Week in Teams.

Teams Breakout Rooms, Task, List, Whiteboard and more… #OTSTWIT E18

This week Jay and Craig talked about some important considerations around managing your Teams, such as: naming conventions, team creation, managing membership, and the ever popular guest accesses vs. external users.

OTSTWIT E17 – Boot Camp: Naming and Managing Teams

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