On may 15, 2020 Facebook announced that they acquired Giphy and that Giphy is now a part of the Instagram Team. Some ask what this acquisition means for other services, because Giphy is integrated into some of the internet’s most popular apps and services. Like Microsoft Teams!
I immediately asked myself: What is Facebook going to do with Giphy data? The Data of 700 million users and billions of hits that comes from the apps and services?
A few days ago, Microsoft enabled the Attendance List feature in Microsoft Teams. This feature will allow the organizer to download the list of attendance in a CSV (Comma-separated values) file.
Sometimes you might want a Phone located in your lobby, or in meeting room. These phones are typical use cases for “Common Area Phone“!
There is a license SKU available in Microsoft 365: Common Area Phone (MCOCAP)
The price in Germany is about 6,70 Euro per month and device (80,40 Euro per year and device), so basically the same as the Microsoft 365 Phone System.
You get the following components as part of this SKU:
During the COVID-19 crisis, I onboarded several customers to Microsoft Office 365. Many of them started new because the want Microsoft Teams for Video Conferencing and collaboration. Some organisations does not want Exchange Online Mailboxes, at least not yet.
Microsoft offers the capability to enforce a naming convention to Microsoft Office 365 Groups (a/k/a Unified Groups). What I like about that: You can enforce the naming convention and also blacklist some words. This might become handy to prevent someone creating a group called “HR”.
