Author Archives

• Speaking at the Collab365 Global Conference

  By Owen Allen on October 31, 2017

  

  I’m getting this announcement out kind of late, but I’d like to invite you to attend my session at the Collab365 Global Conference on the evening of November 1, 2017. The Collab365 Global Conference is a 24-hour virtual conference focused… Read More ›

• Chevron – A Refinery for Digital Transformation based on Azure IoT and Analytics

  By Owen Allen on October 30, 2017

  

  Chevron announced this week that they were committing to a Microsoft Azure platform for the consolidation, processing, and refinement of IoT data and Analytics across and through their organization.   This sounds like most other press releases, but the organizational… Read More ›

• Can I Share that File from Office 365?

  By Owen Allen on October 28, 2017

  Sharing Office 365 files with people outside of your organization sometimes can seem to be hit or miss. For a while now, we’ve been in a situation where a Office 365 user could share a OneDrive file with a known… Read More ›

• OneDrive Files on Demand

  By Owen Allen on October 19, 2017

  

  Lots of goodness is rolling out presently with the Windows Fall Creator Update. OneDrive support for Files on Demand is one of those features. OneDrive Files on Demand allows you to see all the files in your OneDrive, while not… Read More ›

• Important Configuration Setting for Teams Guest Access

  By Owen Allen on September 13, 2017

  

  This is kind of a Public-Service Announcement. The setting to enable invited guest users to your Microsoft Teams installation can be a little difficult to find. Have you invited guest users to Teams, only to see them complain that the… Read More ›

• External Guest Access for Microsoft Teams

  By Owen Allen on September 11, 2017

  External Guest Access for Microsoft Teams is announced today!

• An Argument for Teams to Succeed Skype for Business

  By Owen Allen on September 7, 2017

  Kevin Kieller (@KKieller) writes an interesting article where he lays out his argument for Microsoft Teams to succeed / replace Skype for Business. I think he’s right. I recommend this article to you, on the Nojitter.com blog. Why Teams Is… Read More ›

• MTX Portland and Portland SharePint – Sep 2017

  By Owen Allen on September 6, 2017

  

  I’m speaking at MTX Portland on Sep-12 and attending the SharePint on Sep-11 in Portland. Join us!

• Teams Email Notifications and UserVoice

  By Owen Allen on August 9, 2017

  

  The Email notifications that you receive with Microsoft Teams could use a little sprucing up.  It does a great job of telling me who mentioned me or who reached out to me, and has a link back to the item,… Read More ›

• Folders in Teams files view

  By Owen Allen on July 31, 2017

  

  Well, can you believe that! I’m seeing folders visible in the files view of Microsoft Teams. Praise be to developers and program managers and engineering managers and all others! Last week, I had to train my clients on why the… Read More ›