New to Microsoft Teams? Experienced Teams user and want to get more from your productivity stack? If only there were some under-the-radar Microsoft Teams features you could get your hands on. Good news. In this post, we look at some of the best-hidden features on Microsoft Teams that will help you get the most out ...
Chatter in the Microsoft community is all about Skype for Business 2019. Either Skype for Business Server 2019 or simply concern around using Skype this year and what next year should look like. Whilst these are totally different topics, they are extremely related. Businesses opting to stay with Skype for Business, rather than immediately moving ...
In collaboration IT, interoperability usually happens when competitors work together. When two competing systems work together, without regard to brand name, the end user’s outcome then becomes the same. This is crucial for collaboration to enable, well, genuine collaboration. Lack of interoperability in collaborative businesses creates communication silos, friction, and often leads to what we’ve ...
Looking for Skype for Business alternatives? We hear you. As Skype for Business Online goes end of life on 31st July 2021, and Teams becomes the focal point of Microsoft’s collaboration offering, it’s the perfect time to shop around. We’ve gone out to market and reviewed 20 alternatives to Skype for Business. You may like: ...
Slack vs Microsoft Teams has been heating up for some time now. With the pot about to boil over, we took a look back at what triggered the messaging wars and where we are at the end of 2019. Back in July 2018, Wired ran the headline “The Office-Messaging Wars Are Over. Slack Has Won.” ...
Finding the best team collaboration tools can be a chore. Most organizations end up with many team collaboration software options due to user preference or inherited app from mergers and acquisitions. As collaboration tools for business spiral out of control, we’ve created our version of an old classic – conference call bingo! Print it, save ...
In Summer 2020, Microsoft announced Skype for Business retirement. Only July 31st, 2021, Microsoft confirmed it will no longer support Skype for Business Online deployments. Read on for insights from industry experts and Microsoft MVPs to see what Skype for Business retirement means to them, and what it should mean to you. Firstly, should the ...
By now, you’ve learned the differences between the expectations and realities of external federation. In this post, we’ll take a look at what the state of external federation will be in a year’s time. Table of Contents: History of External Federation The Current State of External Federation Where will External Federation be 1 Year From ...