Check out the Office Online Interactive Guides (click-through demos)....Feedback needed
Hello IT Enthusiasts! I'm on the Office IT Pro readiness team at MS and am always looking for impactful resources that make it easy for our customers and partners to get up to speed on Microsoft technologies. If you have attended past events (MS Ignite, Tech Summits, Build, etc) you are probably familiar with the many labs that we provide in our dedicated lab rooms, covering a wide range of topics (Azure, Office & Windows). We also have an inventory of Click-Through demos (aka. Online Interactive Guides), that cover a range of Office solutions. For those of you interested, please run through a few of these and let me know what you think. Do you like the "click-through" format? Do you like to learn this way? Do you prefer labs or Online Interactive Guides to see first-hand how MS technologies work? What products/services would you like to see? (The guides listed are Office focused but feel free to name any product) There are certainly pros and cons to both labs and Online Interactive Guides (labs mirror the "real" experience but take longer to complete and can be prone to more errors, while OIGs almost always work as expected and take less time to complete but don't allow for exploration within the enviroment and tend to get outdated quickly). Please let me know your thoughts on the below Online Interactive Guides. If the community finds these valuable, we will make them a priority and ramp up our current inventory with new experiences (Microsoft Teams, MyAnalytics, updated Office Pro Plus apps etc). Online Interactive Guides Thanks Michael KophsCalculating Bandwidth
Last week, we discussed ways to tune your network performance to improve end-user experience and speed up connectivity. Network and migration planning is a crucial step prior to migrating to Office 365 to allow you to verify and test the estimated bandwidth. But even after deploying, it’s important to continue to monitor the amount of bandwidth available on the network and estimate if the existing capacity could handle high volume days. See below for calculators and resources to help you monitor your network bandwidth: Teams Bandwidth Calculator Here’s the Teams Calculator Tech Community announcement Skype for Business Bandwidth Calculator Check out thet naing's post on making Skype for Business Bandwidth calculations easy here. Exchange Client Network Bandwidth Calculator Exchange Guide Here At Ignite last year, Ed Fisher and William Looney walked through different methods for calculating bandwidth, including Excel calculators, the overestimation approach and measurement based extrapolation. Watch their presentation below!Social Media Connections: Let's Network!
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Exchange Online Quick Tip: Export all distribution lists with members to a CSV file!
Hi Microsoft 365 and Exchange Online friends, This article is about using PowerShell in Exchange Online to discover all distribution lists, including all members. Then export this information to a CSV file. I used the PowerShell ISE for this configuration. But you are also very welcome to use Visual Studio Code, just as you wish. Please start with the following steps to begin the deployment (the Hashtags are comments): #The first two lines have nothing to do with the configuration, but make some space below in the blue part of the ISE Set-Location C:\Temp Clear-Host #We need the module (without the parameter for a specific version) Install-Module -Name ExchangeOnlineManagement -AllowClobber -Force -Verbose #Let's import the module Import-Module ExchangeOnlineManagement #Check the version (if you have not selected a version) Get-InstalledModule -Name ExchangeOnlineManagement #Update if needed Update-Module -Name ExchangeOnlineManagement -Verbose #Now we connect to Exchange Online Connect-ExchangeOnline #To list all the distribution groups Get-DistributionGroup -ResultSize Unlimited #To obtain a list of group members Get-DistributionGroupMember -Identity "MarketingTeam20220406114100" -ResultSize Unlimited #Get members from a given distribution list and then, export its members to a CSV file $DLName = "MarketingTeam20220406114100" Get-DistributionGroupMember -Identity $DLName -ResultSize Unlimited | Select Name, PrimarySMTPAddress, RecipientType | Export-CSV "C:\Distribution-List-Members.csv" -NoTypeInformation -Encoding UTF8 ##Lets have a look Get-Content C:\Distribution-List-Members.csv | Out-GridView #Export all distribution lists with members to a CSV file! $Result=@() $groups = Get-DistributionGroup -ResultSize Unlimited $totalmbx = $groups.Count $i = 1 $groups | ForEach-Object { Write-Progress -activity "Processing $_.DisplayName" -status "$i out of $totalmbx completed" $group = $_ Get-DistributionGroupMember -Identity $group.Name -ResultSize Unlimited | ForEach-Object { $member = $_ $Result += New-Object PSObject -property @{ GroupName = $group.DisplayName Member = $member.Name EmailAddress = $member.PrimarySMTPAddress RecipientType= $member.RecipientType }} $i++ } $Result | Export-CSV "C:\All-Distribution-Group-Members.csv" -NoTypeInformation -Encoding UTF8 #Lets have a look $Result | Out-GridView I hope this article was useful. Thank you for taking the time to read the article. Best regards, Tom Wechsler P.S. All scripts (#PowerShell, Azure CLI, #Terraform, #ARM) that I use can be found on github! https://github.com/tomwechslerA healthy directory is a good directory
Azure Active Directory is critical to the good health of Exchange Online and the other Office 365 applications. However, as the years pass by, sometimes the data in the directory becomes a little… shall we say “tired”. Hyperfish is a new startup that aims to help organizations take control of their directory and ensure that the data is good. They have a free analysis tool available to start the ball rolling. You might like it! https://www.itunity.com/article/healthy-directory-good-directory-3577Deleted Items in a Shared Mailbox
In O365/Exchange Online when a user deletes an item from a shared mailbox it goes to the user's deleted items not the shared mailbox's deleted items. Has anyone found a way to have them go to the shared mailbox's deleted items? I have seen that Microsoft recommends a registry change but that doesn't solve the problem. In today's world people may be just as likely to use their phone or Outlook on the web.interesting calendars - Football Calendar is released (How to turn it off?????)
Hey Everyone, Back on Aug 1st, Microsoft put a blog out about "Interesting Calendars" that were coming - https://blogs.office.com/2016/08/01/follow-the-summer-games-in-rio-with-the-new-outlook-interesting-calendar-feature/ Well, i guess one of the first ones is here. Its the Football Calendar. https://blogs.office.com/2016/09/08/football-season-is-here-outlook-helps-you-track-the-games-that-matter/ When you launch your calendar in OWA for the first time you will get a pop up asking you if you want to add the Football calendar to your Calendar. If you select NO, it wont show again, you can just go back to the dropdown and add ti when you want. Well, i have a customer that upset that this is showing up in his "business" email. He does not want his employees adding football calendars. He wants a way to hide it, delete it, don't show it......whatever, you get the point. I kind of agree with him in the sense that we (Any Admin) does need a place to hide this stuff or turn it off so the tenant/Users cannot see it, but does anyone know of a way to do this? I have looked around and I do not think you can turn it off. Just wanted to put this out there to see what people think or if they know of a way to turn it off/delete it *Update - Sorry, Rio Summer Games was first one, Football is the 2nd one https://blogs.office.com/2016/08/01/follow-the-summer-games-in-rio-with-the-new-outlook-interesting-calendar-feature/
