You are interested in OneDrive and OneDrive for Business?
You want to know how you can integrate the OneDrive technology into your IT infrastructure securely? 

Here is the list of OneDrive related sessions at Microsoft Ignite 2017

Monday

• THR1022: Bring your sales team together: Office 365 Groups, Teams & Microsoft Dynamics 365 in the real world 
• THR2039: Explore the mobile options for OneDrive for Business and SharePoint files
• BRK2181: Accelerate productivity with search and discovery in SharePoint and Office 365 
• BRK3382: Securing, governing, and protecting your Office 365 investments
• POD2005: Todd Klindt's SharePoint Podcast

Tuesday

• POD2010: 2 Guys and SharePoint Ignite live stream
• POD1000: Microsoft Cloud Show - live episode
• THR2084: Figuring out Office 365 external sharing in 20 minutes
• BRK2229: Security you can trust, control you can count on with SharePoint and OneDrive
• BRK2310: Speed and scale: Accenture’s Windows 10 journey 
• POD2011: First Ring Daily 
• BRK1015: Office + Everyday AI 
• BRK2184: Accelerate your digital transformation with SharePoint and OneDrive 
• THR1066: Fostering a successful remote worker culture 
• THR1023: Can I get a side of OneDrive for Business with my SharePoint? 
• BRK1013: Collaboration in Microsoft Office Apps 
• THR2097: Developing a blueprint for your data in Microsoft Azure 
• BRK1053: Microsoft Office 365 adoption user group meetup 
• BRK2205: OneDrive - Past, Present, and Future 

Wednesday

• THR2093: Backup strategies for your Office 365 environment and Windows or Linux computers 
• BRK3050: Going from traditional to modern: Moving to cloud-first deployment and management models in schools 
• BRK3382R: Securing, governing, and protecting your Office 365 investments 
• BRK3361: Veeam for the Microsoft Cloud 
• BRK1065: Women in Technology community leaders 
• THR2061: Optimizing Microsoft OneDrive for the enterprise 
• THR3011: Upgrade your organization to the latest OneDrive sync client 
• THR3021: Why Microsoft is updating the new OneDrive sync engine in a different way 
• BRK2243: Understanding your collaboration options in Office 365 
• BRK4030: Learn how SharePoint Online safeguards your data in the cloud 
• THR2171: How to be productive with Microsoft Office 365 
• THR3026: Migrating home folders to OneDrive for Business 
• BRK3227: Office UI Fabric behind the scenes: Open source Design & Engineering in Office 
• BRK3224: Manage and secure Microsoft OneDrive web 
• THR2184: Empowering students for their future 
• THR1020: Tackling Adoption Like A Service With Office 365 
• BRK3039: Integrate OneDrive and SharePoint files 
• BRK2228: Migration to SharePoint and OneDrive in Office 365: Process and options 
• BRK3226: Create beautiful, fast, interactive pages in SharePoint: Deep dive with the product team 
• THR1038: Learn how to consolidate, manage, backup, and secure your cloud collaboration content 
• BRK3231: Deploy Microsoft OneDrive across users and devices: Deep dive with the product team
• THR2181: The impact of digital literacy on Office 365 user adoption 
• BRK3080: Build smarter apps with Office using the Microsoft Graph 

Thursday

• THR4002: Achieving upward mobility: Top 3 strategies for migrating data & workloads from data center to cloud 
• THR1035: Prevent costly data leaks from Microsoft Office 365 
• POD1007: Microsoft Cloud IT Pro Podcast 
• BRK3012: Secure access to Office 365 
• BRK2245: Enable external sharing and collaboration with OneDrive and SharePoint 
• BRK3244: OneDrive unplugged 
• BRK3237: Create and manage sharing and access policies for SharePoint 
• THR2065: Groups and Teams: Friend or foe? 
• BRK2374: Stop data exfiltration and advanced threats in Microsoft Office 365 and Azure 
• BRK2185: Build your personalized and social intranet with SharePoint 
• BRK2365: Service and Support for Microsoft Surface - Built for the Demands of Today’s Enterprise 
• BRK3236: Multi-Geo Capabilities in OneDrive and SharePoint Online 

Friday

• BRK2247: Learn from MVPs: Panel discussion on all things SharePoint and OneDrive 
• BRK3235: Manage SharePoint and OneDrive in Office 365: A field guide for administrators 
• BRK2384: What to use when in Office 365 meetup: Helping you find the answers to this never ending question 

See you at Microsoft Ignite!

The Microsoft 365 Virtual Marathon took place on May 27-28 2020.

The recording of my session "Exchange Hybrid - What, Why, and How" is available on YouTube. 

Browse all recordings of the Microsoft 365 Virtual Marathon here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrtmT6Ir1MIs0ZES7sKMmqA

Enjoy!

Wouldn't it be nice if you could stay in Microsoft Teams even when working with your emails? Microsoft Teams is getting even more mature by providing an App for integrating Outlook into the Microsoft Teams client.

At least it seems that this is the case. or was it?

The Outlook App (Preview)

Last week a new App, still in preview, showed up in the Teams Admin Center (TAC) of some demo tenants. I filtered the list of available apps using Outlook as a search term.

When selecting the app, the details showed that the app was still in preview (v0.41).

As long as the app is enabled within Teams, you can add the app to a Teams Setup Policy and make it available for users.

Your users can then access the Outlook App using the Teams app bar.

You can simply click on Outlook in the app bar and, voilá, you have your Outlook inbox in Microsoft Teams. Due to the architecture of Microsoft Teams, you have access to your Outlook on the Web version of your inbox.

Links

• Learn more about Microsoft Teams 
• Teams App Setup Policy
• Learn more about today

Enjoy Microsoft Teams and Microsoft Outlook. - And remember today's date.

Microsoft 365 Groups are the backbone of various Microsoft 365 workloads. As you might know, each group utilizes a SharePoint site collection, and an Exchange shared mailbox.

When you create a new Microsoft 365 group, SharePoint Online must store the associated site collection somewhere. SharePoint Online uses predefined paths to determine the storage location. These paths are called: Managed Paths.

SharePoint Online uses two different pre-configured managed paths:

• /sites
• /teams

With /sites as the default setting for the Microsoft 365 tenant.

Whenever you create, e.g., a new team in Microsoft Teams, the associated site collection is stored in https://TENANTNAME.sharepoint.com/sites/TEAMNAME. As a SharePoint administrator, you see the site collection paths in the list of active sites in the SharePoint Admin Center.

But what can you do, if you want to store the associated site collections in the /teams managed path?

Changing the Managed Path

The SharePoint Admin Center provides you with an option to change the managed path for sites, created by users. 

Open the SharePoint Admin Center, navigate to Settings -> Site Creation.

Change the setting for Create team sites under to /teams/.

The description of this setting is misleading. This setting affects not only SharePoint team site creation initiated by users on the SharePoint start page or OneDrive, but site collections created by Microsoft 365 Groups as well.

You do not need to enable the checkbox to let users create sites from the SharePoint start page and OneDrive. This setting is only required, when you want to enable self-service site creation of modern SharePoint sites for users. The modern SharePoint sites are based on Microsoft 365 Groups.

After changing the path, SharePoint Online creates new associated site collections for Microsoft 365 Groups in /teams/.

Enjoy SharePoint Online.

Learn - Connect - Explore

This year's Microsoft Ignite Conference takes place on November 4 - 8 at the Orange County Convention Center (OCCC), Orlando, Florida.

Choose from over 1,000 Breakout and Theater Sessions to learn about new technologies and methods, or talk directly to Microsoft professionals and MVPs about your technical challenges. Select the sessions and hands-on experiences that are most interesting for you based on the Microsoft Learning Paths to suit your job role.

You will find me directly in the Modern Workplace & Modern Life in the exhibition area. Just stop by to learn more about the possibilities of modern and secure collaboration using Microsoft Teams, Mobile Productivity, and more. 

Feel free to contact me via email to arrange an appointment at Ignite 2019: thomas@mcsmemail.de.

Links

• Microsoft Ignite 2019 Conference
• Session Catalogue
• Microsoft Learning Paths

See you in Orlando!

Starting September 11th 2017 Microsoft Teams supports guest access for external users. 

Guest access for Microsoft Teams uses a separate guest license type that must be activated in the services & add-ons section of the Office 365 Admin portal. 

Office 365 Admin portal notification:

When we make this change, the ‘Pick the license you want to configure’ setting in ‘Settings > Services and Add-ins > Microsoft Teams’, will now have an option for ‘Guest’ with a default value of “off” for the ‘Turn Microsoft Teams on or off for your entire organization’ setting.

When you've not activated guest licenses, external user receive an odd error when trying to access your shared team.

Link

• Expand your collaboration with guest access in Microsoft Teams

Enjoy Office 365!