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Top Conversations
How can I export Attendee list from Microsoft Teams Live events session using Microsoft Graph API?
@marcelocasaca wondered about how to use Microsoft Graph APIs to extract a attendee list from a live session from Microsoft Teams. Microsoft employee Val Ramos and MVP Reza Ameri offered helpful advice.
How I Manage and Plan Tasks as a Remote Worker
Microsoft employee Thomas Maurer shared his experience on how to manage and plan tasks as a remote worker working from home and be more productive, with positive community response.
The BIG WFH Office pictures!
MVP Simon Binder asked the community to post pictures of their work from home setup, receiving quite a few responses.
Microsoft Teams introductory blog series
Looking to get the most out of Microsoft Teams now that you're working remotely? Check out MVP @Christopher Hoard's fantastic Teams introductory series!
Building A Highly Available Remote Desktop Gateway Farm integrated with Azure MFA
Mahmoud A. Atallah shared a how-to article on building a RD Gateway with Azure MFA for secure work and familiar experience across a variety of devices or web browsers.
Enable Remote Work
5 ways OneDrive can be useful during remote working scenarios
To get work done from anywhere, across your devices, you need ubiquitous access to all your files – online and offline and the ability to securely collaborate with folks within and outside your organization. Digital natives and mobile professionals expect this and OneDrive does not disappoint. With so many information workers, teachers and students working from home, here are 5 ways OneDrive can be useful during remote working scenarios.
Sync Up – a OneDrive podcast : Episode 8, “How to best use OneDrive when working remotely"
Sync Up is your monthly podcast hosted by the OneDrive team taking you behind the scenes of OneDrive, shedding light on how OneDrive connects you to all your files in Microsoft 365 so you can share and work together from anywhere. You will hear from experts behind the design and development of OneDrive, as well as customers and Microsoft MVPs. Each episode will also give you news and announcements, special topics of discussion, and best practices for your OneDrive experience.
Stay productive and connected using apps in Teams
Organizations everywhere are pivoting to a remote work environment, putting the needs of their employees, customers, and communities first. In an effort to continue supporting individuals and organizations each day, we’ve created a new three-part webcast series focusing on enabling remote work. As technology plays a vital role, now more than ever, we’ve paired the webcast series with helpful videos and guidance, to enable you to provide your employees with access to the right tools, resources, and expertise they need to become experts at working remotely.
How to secure your remote workers with Office Cloud Policy Service
With more and more users working from home, organizations are facing new security and privacy challenges. One of them might be, that users are working on unmanaged, maybe personal devices accessing corporate data. Classic technologies like Active Directory Group Policy Management do not help in such scenarios, as these do not apply to unmanaged devices.
Developing applications for secure remote work with Azure AD
In light of the current COVID-19 outbreak, we have been working closely with our customers to help them address the new reality. As such, we recently published tips to help IT admins to enable secure, remote access. Today, we want to provide guidance for our developers to ensure the apps you build can be easily accessible to all workers, anywhere. Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) can help unlock secure, remote access to the apps you build while providing benefits such as: reduced costs and time savings and centralized administration.
Optimize Windows monthly update deployment for remote devices
In this post, we will walk you through ways to optimize the delivery and deployment of Windows monthly quality updates (aka patches) to remote devices in your organization. We will offer specific recommendations on minimizing update size and bandwidth utilization, increasing update speed and consistency, and reducing the impact and dependency on end users.
Securely collaborate with remote partners using Azure AD B2B collaboration
As COVID-19 public health guidance keeps suppliers, distributors, vendors and contractors at home, organizations around the world must figure out how to enable productivity for their blended workforce of employees and external partners. A few weeks ago, we shared 5 steps you can take to enable remote work with Azure Active Directory. We’ve since shared how to enable remote collaboration for your employees and how to allow remote employees to securely access on-prem apps. Today we’ll talk about ways you can enable remote collaboration with your external users using B2B collaboration capabilities in Azure AD.
IT essentials for enabling remote work with Microsoft Teams
Organizations across the globe are adjusting to the new reality of remote work to ensure the safety and well-being of their employees.
Manage your time while working from home with Outlook
A lot has changed in the last few weeks. You, and many more, may be working from home, blurring the lines between your work and your personal lives. Your daily routine has changed and you are spending more time inside, more time connected to the digital world, and with additional personal responsibilities.
Resources for Remote Workers
Three ways to use virtual tools to support your employee's wellbeing
As someone who has worked in and around health organizations for over 22 years, I have seen my fair share of individuals who epitomize the old saying: “when the going gets tough, the tough get going.” They are resilient people. However, every employee’s spirit will be tested in this difficult time by the volume and pace of work, uncertainty or just “being outside their comfort zone.” As leaders, your natural inclination will be to sustain your staff’s resilience, even as you personally face new challenges in managing team engagement and workday structure.
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Join us for the new Enabling remote work with Microsoft 365 webcast series
Organizations everywhere are pivoting to a remote work environment, putting the needs of their employees, customers, and communities first. In an effort to continue supporting individuals and organizations each day, we’ve created a new three-part webcast series focusing on enabling remote work. As technology plays a vital role, now more than ever, we’ve paired the webcast series with helpful videos and guidance, to enable you to provide your employees with access to the right tools, resources, and expertise they need to become experts at working remotely.
