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Fab spoof from Apple on the whole “working at home” thing… Must see.
Customise the Office 365 encryption Message
This is a useful guide on branding the messages sent out by Office Message Encryption (OME). I will be coming back to this one in the New Year.
What’s New in Microsoft Teams- Ignite 2019
This is a LONG list of new and improved features for Microsoft Teams. Excited to see a lot of these, especially things such as Private Channels and Planner/To Do integration
Ryan Block on AirPods Pro vs. Bose QuietComfort 35 Headphones
Have to say I am impressed too. Loving them !
Apple has pulled the latest HomePod update and is warning users not to reset their speaker, lest they render it inoperable.
www.macworld.com/article/3449239/apple-warns-homepod-users-of-potentially-fatal-ios-13-2-flaw.html
Found this after an hour of trying to work out why new multi-user support on HomePod didn’t seem to be working. My HomePod is still on 12.4 so hasn’t been updated fortunately.
So I just came across another one of Microsofts seemingly arbitrary limitations in using policies to manage Windows 10. This one is another example where there is a policy setting that only works if you have Windows 10 Enterprise or Education editions and not for Pro.
If you want a policy to lock down the Windows Store to only show applications in your organisations Store then you are going to be out of luck…
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-store/manage-access-to-private-store
If anyone knows a way to block the Windows Store for Pro editions I would be interested to hear from you.
The latest Edge Insider release includes a new feature for users to configure the default new tab to include the Recommended and Recent sections from the default Office.com landing page.
This is a nice addition and will be a great way of giving staff quick and easy access to their Office files without having to specifically navigate to the Office home page. The new tab page also provides a Search box that defaults to searching the users Office 365 tenant ( Sharepoint sites etc ) as well as the web.
Now if Microsoft would just switch on synching in Edge Insider for macOS I would be a very happy bunny…
I have recently started setting up Room Resources in our Office 365 tenant and quickly discovered that that rooms are only available Monday to Friday 08:00 to 17:00 by default.
Fortunately there is a Powershell command to modify this to suit your room requirements.
First connect to Exchange PowershellSet-MailboxCalendarConfiguration -Identity -WorkingHoursStartTime 00:00:00 -WorkingHoursEndTime 23:59:59
This is for an individual room resource. Alternatively if all your rooms have the same availability schedule you can change all at once with the command below
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Just found this article on the Lazy Administrator that describes how to enforce a Windows lock screen wallpaper on Windows 10 for all editions ( not just Enterprise and Education which is all Microsoft allow you to do with Intune out of the box ! )
I will be using this script. Thanks Brad.
CarPlay in iOS 13 is a huge upgrade
Having recently upgraded to beta 7 of iOS 13 I have to say the single biggest improvement for me is CarPlay.
Thanks Apple !
Regarding365.com has this very neat how to article on creating an Adaptive Card in Teams when someone sends a specific Tweet.
I’ve not seen the adaptive card designer mentioned in the post but will check it out as this looks pretty useful.
This Microsoft guide explains how to add attachments in a PowerApps form to a Sharepoint list.
A quick list of some of the blogs I have used recently for guides and how to’s on Microsoft products.
I have previously setup a script to push simple shortcuts to Desktop with Intune but this guide from Nicolonsky Tech is much better. Will re-create mine using this approach.
Source: Intune create desktop shortcut
Louisiana declares emergency over cyberattacks targeting schools
Things seem to be going pretty badly for a lot of small states in America at the moment. As a regular listener to Security Now it seems there aren’t many weeks that go by at the moment where one state or another isn’t being crippled by ransomware. As they have discussed there is money to be made and it seems some governers are paying the ransom rather than trying to recover manually. Either way there are some significant sums of money involved in responding to this events and it seems that cyber insurance policies may not continue to be the way out in the future.
So I am making some progress with learning PowerApps and have the start of a new app for the charity to use. Just came across this resource which will be worth having a look through, a showcase for what others have done with PowerApps
Community Apps Gallery - Power Platform Community
A useful quick link to the PowerApps function reference on Microsoft Docs
##Microsoft Forms
One feature that would make this process work a lot better would be to enable the initial Form to have some of the information pre-populated so when it is submitted the information can be linked to existing data in Sharepoint. It seems this is a requirement that others have found lacking in Forms at the moment
Discussion at Pre-populate fields in Microsoft Forms via URL parameter? - Microsoft Tech Community - 113803
*PowerApps: Submit multiple forms at the same time — SharePoint Simply
##Teams
Just discovered that you can change individual folder permissions in Sharepoint Groups Document Library using the Manage Access panel. I had been under the impression that to make changes like this you needed to drop into the Advanced Permissions settings ( something that most of the users in my organisation would not cope with easily ).
This Microsoft article shows how to do it. I will definitely be making use of this now I know about it, and helping my users to use it too.
Siri: How to add an item to specific Reminders list AND set a reminder time? - Ask Different — Read on apple.stackexchange.com/questions/235719/siri-how-to-add-an-item-to-specific-reminders-list-and-set-a-reminder-time
A long time coming but I have finally had to make the jump to the next level of iCloud storage ( 2TB ). The 200Mb subscription has lasted a while but has finally been absorbed by the families Messages, Photos and others. At least I have plenty of head room to grow into now.
Enjoy…
