 We can, I guess, bring the mics back on and get started and welcome everybody. Welcome to the Microsoft 365 AMA where you can ask us anything about Microsoft 365 and the products and services that are there in. My name is Christian Buckley. I'm an Office of Apps and Services MVP and Microsoft Regional Director and I'm also the Microsoft Go-To-Market Director at Avpoint. We are live streaming across YouTube, Facebook, LinkedIn. If you have a question, feel free to tag that you want us to tackle. Please comment and we'll attempt, I'll use that phrase, attempt to address in real time. Other questions have been gathered from various community pages this week and with that let me introduce the rest of our panel today. We have some folks that are absent who may be joining later, but who we have here on screen right now. We've got Mr. Mike Nelson, a Solutions Architect with Pure Storage and a Cloud and Data Center Management MVP based in Appleton, Wisconsin. We've got Hal Haas-Dettler, a Senior Field Engineer with Roll and Shore and Tower on Tucson, Arizona and an Office of Apps and Services MVP. We have, let's see, Sherry Oswald, a Microsoft Certified Trainer, a Microsoft Office Master and Co-Founder for Power-Up Learning in Colorado Springs, Colorado. We have Dr. Neil Hoskinson, a Microsoft Senior Program Manager and Azure guy, former SharePoint guy, he's the, yes, Doctor, Doctor, Doctor. So we may have Sean and Riz and a new panelist, potentially Veronica might join us as well. So yeah, that'll happen. People may drop in, people may drop out throughout, you know, but how's everybody doing? Hey, great to be back. I mean, you know, it's been a while. This whole change to a month thing is kind of, you know, it's like, man, I actually missed you guys. Actually. I was going to say the same thing, I missed you guys. Not Christian, but I missed you guys. Thank you. Fortunately, Christian and I met up at the Branson event, so that was fun. That's right. I'm on the lake. I'm still itching from peeling on my shoulders, which ended up being a lot more burned than I expected. But yeah. So we were at the North American Collaboration Summit in Branson, Missouri, two weeks ago, which was great to see some people in person, live was great. Enjoyed that. Well, excellent. Well, let's see. Yeah. The move to the monthly has, I think, surface then, I think it amplifies technical issues like how almost didn't make it because of a device failure. And so I know, like, Sean has had other workshops and other client stuff and, you know, it's just- We're all out of whack, man. You lose the cadence, you just get totally out of whack and you're just not, you used to just snapping it just like that. Now we're going to stumble and fall and, you know, pick up the pieces where we left off, all that kind of fun stuff. Yeah, it was fun doing it for those that are new that aren't aware of what we're talking about. So we started at the beginning of the pandemic with a weekly show. And we did 61 episodes. And then now we've moved just because life happens. We've moved to monthly. And so we've got all this 62. I think it's actually 63. I think last last time. So we did 61 weeklies and then we moved to the monthly. So I think this is episode 63, but we'll figure it out in post-production. Yeah, either. Wow. So I know it's a lot. It is. So with that, I do want to put up on screen early now. So we do have the disclaimer of folks are seeing it now. Just realize that we'll do our best to answer some questions. You know, in our defense, I mean, we are we're pulling these questions raw. And so the team, as you go through and you look at it like I can spell some of the people that are asking the questions can't. I'm just going to put that out there. But I mean, some of the questions that are posted in like the Facebook communities, like tons of questions, like the Microsoft Teams Facebook community has like 40 or 60,000 members or something crazy big number. And we're seeing more and more questions that are translated. And so I'm just I just pull those verbatim. And so sometimes we have to interpret what the person is actually asking because we can't do follow up questions. Well, not only that, and then also lack of information is a huge barrier that we face quite a bit on there, on our questions. You know, we have to go back and ask for more information in order to be able to answer the questions and lack of knowledge and skill and tact of the panel. You don't have that. Come on. Sometimes, sometimes. Most of you have the disclaimer. Exactly. That was that's my point. That's why the disclaimer. I do want to make one comment, though, Christian, to start off. I mean, now that we're back together, have you noticed Sherry's change in her and her background and her. Oh, yes. Wow. I mean, this is kind of cool. Except she she she forgot to unmute herself, though. Oh, thanks for noticing. I took a little time off and organized my office a little bit. So excellent. I'm ashamed of my background. Yeah, yeah, it's cool because, you know, Neil's still in his kitchen. You know that, you know, and so is how I can put a background on. Yeah, no worries. Just what just what background you find is interesting to me. Oh, by the way, I apologize for my appearance, by the way. I had surgery on one day on my head and I'm not allowed to shower for 40 hours. Did you get scout? I've been here. There's a bunch of stitches. He's had a bad life like all my remove from my head. Oh, my. It looks like they cut it and then they just pull back the stress. No, this line here. This is actually I've had it since I was about eight years old. And I used to play a lot of football. That's proper football, not American football. And people always said that this is where they. This is where they sliced my head open and inserted the concrete block because I was always known for my heading ability of the ball. And Neil, the only proper football, the only proper football is rugby. Yeah, he's done something like face off where they transplanted the faces. Maybe maybe it's really not Neil at all. That's right. It's we're talking everyone. We're talking with John Travolta, I know. Yeah. Well, let's let's why don't we get underway? If Mike, if you're ready, I'll put the this is the official screen there for the Microsoft Message Center updates. And I will really I will not do. Yeah, I will not do the the theme music for you. I want to lower third. I want to lower third to come right across here. You know, and it's got my name, you know, Field Reporter, that can be arranged. Yeah, yeah, well, we'll work on that. Yeah. Hey, you know what? It's been a long it's been a while. We've kind of talked about that a little bit. But I got to tell you in the the stuff coming across from on the Microsoft 365 message boards for administrators. There's a lot. And, you know, Christian doesn't get me enough time to cover it all. There's no way I could cover a month and a half of stuff because we're we're going back a little bit. So I just tried to pick out the highlights and, you know, they're the highlights that I picked out. So if you don't like them, well, too bad. I'm just going to go with it. All right. So first of all, kicking it off. One of the best departments at Microsoft I have ever heard of. You know, they have this nice little sign outside the door. It's called Don't be a buzzkill do department. And the reason why I say that is because, you know, they came out with something that I talked about at one of our prior shows about they're adding plus addressing for exchange online, right? So if anybody doesn't know what that is, you can do that in Gmail right now. You have a Google Gmail. You can actually add a plus and then some word after that. And you can have that as another email address. OK, so it's called plus addressing. So what they're doing is they, you know, Microsoft came out and said, hey, we're going to add this to exchange online. But the problem is, is now they've gotten feedback that says, hey, some orgs don't want to have plus addressing enabled. So now they've got to put in an actual switch to turn off the plus addressing. You know, and I just it's kind of a buzzkill for me because I'm like, hey, it's cool. I mean, it's a great way to filter out spam. It's a great way to put in, you know, kind of a, hey, you got to fill out this form in order to download something, which Microsoft does a lot in their Eval website. Just add a plus address and then you don't have to worry about it. You know, it's not like going to your primary email. You can just filter it out. So they're actually taking to putting in the feature and then they're going to make plus addressing and and always on feature and they're going to remove the opt in. OK, so you actually have to go turn this off specifically. It's on by default. So that that that scenario always plays out so well with Microsoft. You know, it does. Yeah, they have a great history of that. Yeah, I have a great history of that. Excellent. So from another department that comes along, it's called it continues to mutate department. The spam notification in call toast. Anybody know what that means? Yeah, I didn't think so either. So back in twenty two thousand and five, Bill Gates came out and said in two years, spam is going to be history. We're going to get rid of spam. Guess what? Spam is still here. Spam has not gone away. And now Microsoft, quote unquote, are thrilled to bring you spam call notifications. So when you're in teams, people are getting spam calls in teams while they're in team meetings. So they actually will have a pop up now that comes up and says, like you're on your cell phone, you know, possible spam or spam notification will come across on your team meeting. You know, it really was a question of, you know, not how or why, but when this is going to happen. I mean, it's effectively a life cycle of spam. And now they're going to start spamming, you know, they did zoom bombs. Now they're going to do team spam, I guess. You know, so one thing I have to say, I mean, back to that early prediction of removal spam, for those that are not admins, you don't realize going into the environment how much is actually filtered out, like what is being protected. It's amazing the volume that it stops. Incredible amount of volume. And I have a, I have a, well, we have 365 for our family, right? And I've only got like six, seven people on that. But the amount of spam that is filtered, it's incredible. I just run the report and I just can't believe how much my family gets. That's crazy. So moving on, this is kind of a weird department that they created at Microsoft. It's a department called The Call is coming from inside the house. 80s movies reference, nobody got that. Of course, right away, Halloween. Yeah. Yeah. So they're actually going to put in Dynamic E911 for US work from home users in teams. So in teams, you will now be able to consent to publish your location, which will allow E911 services to locate you on teams calls. Cool. Yeah. So now anybody who kind of like maybe is in a hacks into teams and can see where you actually live. Yeah. Thus, the call is coming from inside the house type scenario. Well, you know, I know it's there's a comedian. In fact, I just saw a bit on YouTube a day or two ago about like a problem with young people that are, in fact, there's a whole government paid campaign to educate people that you cannot text 911. You have to actually call 911. Yeah. And yeah. And so it's a problem. It is. And actually what they do is they actually got to take this to another level. They're putting in this notification that they're going to expand it. So it'll work with dynamic locations. So what that means is if you enable location services on your computer and you move from, you know, Starbucks to Panera Bread to your home to wherever and you're connecting to teams meetings, it will know where you are at any one time when you connect to those meetings. Does it know what you're ordering? It'll get to that point, Christian. Don't don't be surprised because now it is, if I'm sitting here and I've got my I've got my phone sitting here, it's kind of weird how I'll talk about, you know, hey, where's my extended car warranty right now? And then, you know, somewhere down the road like tomorrow, I'll get a text message like saying, oh, you want to talk about your extended car warranty? They're listening. They're always. I was just thinking of all the like the like meal tracking and steps tracking and all of that. And I got often will not carry. I won't wear my Apple Watch or carry my iPhone with me because I don't want an app to be judgmental about what I am or am not doing. Don't judge me. That's right. But it's it's but it's funny. Like the things that you can do now, of course, you'd be aware of it. But like my oldest son, you know, it went in and did we've got the location, you know, awareness, capabilities within the phones. And like, I'll get a call and my son be like, hey, while you're at Best Buy and I'll be like, like, oh, yeah, I turned that on. So I know I'm allowing him to do this. And so he'll he'll he'll do that and be like, nope, I still still see, you know, you know, mom's still at work, you know. So when are you going to be home so she can't help like that kind of stuff? And, you know, so there's there's some of that capability now already within devices. But yeah. Right. All right. Moving on again. This is a real quick one. This department doesn't exist anymore, but they're called Litter RIP as in Litter RIP. Skype for Business Online is being retired July 31st, 2021. What everybody needs to know that if anybody still uses Skype for Business. It's actually still an option in teams to specify when you get a Skype call, what answers the Skype call and Skype for Business is listed. But they're getting rid of Skype for Business on July 31st. Is that going to hold? Well, July 31st, which this year or next year, when is it? Yeah. So the thing about it is that I created this back when we had our last call, which was back in July. Yeah. So it's a little dated. But yeah, it's it's it's gone now. OK. When is news really news? SharePoint News Boost, the new feature will allow you to prioritize important news and announcements at the top of news feeds across 365. And additionally, you can even prioritize visibility of news articles for a set time that you can control. I just kind of surprised, Sherry, maybe you know more about this, but I'm kind of surprised that they didn't come up with this earlier. And that to me was, you know, the whole banner thing, the hero banner that they put on websites and the scrolling banners and things like that, you just thought that SharePoint would come up with something that you could actually do do the same type of thing. Yeah, I've had to backdoor that using, you know, site columns and getting adding expiration dates and then filtering based on the expiration date, what shows on pages and not. But yeah, I mean, they have scheduling that allows you to say when it's going to be published, that's out of the box. But yeah, my frustration with that is that all the news posts go in the pages. And I want to I want a content type that's not a page. I want a content type that's a news post. And when you say new news posts, use that content type so that you can, you don't have to apply all those pages attributes to the news. That would be nice. Yeah. And have you provided that feedback to the product teams that they're aware of that? Yes. And I think everybody on user, it's like, you know, that's why we have content types. Hello. Which, by the way, what's happening with user voice? It's going away. It's been going away for years. It's been going away for years. But they're going to use a new product according to Karawana a couple of days ago in an adoption. I think it was yesterday in an adoption. The call. Yeah, this time call. Yeah, she said October, something about October, but she can't talk about it. So I know it was it was down and people were freaking out, but it was just a maintenance thing. There was something else that was happening. So it was down for a couple of days. In fact, we were talking about it in Branson a week before last. But yeah, I've just I've not been following that closely of what it's being replaced by. I don't think they're even saying because she said I can't just look October-ish. Yeah, which might be in January. You know, we never know. I just hope they migrate this stuff because if all of a sudden you get a new service and like all those user votes, all the votes, all the everything that's put in user voice, if it doesn't get migrated, they're going to be a lot of pissed off people. Yeah, and think about it, though. The that history that's there, if they can't port it over and you have to start from scratch, it's like, no, there was a lot more to this than, you know, hey, I want this new feature yesterday, you know, was user voice. Sorry, was this go sideways on this mic? But was user voice a Microsoft product or is that a third party? No, it didn't start out as a Microsoft product. It's a third party tool. So if you were a third party and somebody was leaving the camp, how easy would you make it to be to take all that stuff with you? Yeah. So it's a trade off with software that way. If you don't provide kind of a way to easily get on and off of the platform, then, you know, not being able to get off of the platform is a deterrent for salespeople as well. I mean, it makes it a tougher upsell. Yeah. Yeah. And I think I don't know if we have the voice of Microsoft here wants to say something, Neil, look like you should say something. I was just going to say when we first, when I'm with the first forays into user voice on the SharePoint side, when we started shipping SharePoint 2016, back in the day, we set up the user voice. And actually, user voice.com slash SharePoint was already taken. Yep. And we, the folks that were using it and kind of, you know, subscribed to it and had all of the, ownership's the wrong word, but they were basically the tenant, if you like, of that location. They were super helpful, super nice. And they handed it over to us from the Microsoft side to say, here you go. Yeah. And actually, I still get emails to this day. I'm still an admin, I think, on there. I was certainly a few months ago. So when people register knew what user voice requests still comes to me, even though I've not worked in SharePoint. I wish I would be perhaps something like that, that Microsoft would come along and I'd be like, show me the money. Yeah. You know, I mean, you pick out what a domain registration or something and you get somebody like Microsoft is like, we're creating a new product and it's got that name. Well, at the time, we want that URL. At the time, SharePoint was already in, was a brand name registered with Microsoft. So it didn't have to, obviously, no one wants to go to a legal conversation right now. But Microsoft was in a very strong position, I should say, to to request and ask nicely and the people that were there were super happy about it and complied. There was no, there was no animal steal. Great experience on both sides. I know it always, it doesn't always go that way. So, you know, so I, I, I lost a domain and it took good part of a year, but had to get an attorney involved for an established brand that was one of those cases where one of the domains was so like so long ago to an old email that no longer had access to it. And and so like I've got all the alerts and everything set up now. So it's not a problem. It got corrected. But, you know, I went in there literally the day after it expired and couldn't retrieve it and it was a squatter. I mean, so. Yeah, that's what happens. So legitimately, the registrar was like, it was legitimate, you know, pick up. So anyway. Yeah, I'm going to keep going because I've only got a couple more. And I know we want to move on to those questions. So from the Department of just for fun, let's create some some confusion that's obviously a very popular department at Microsoft that they are actually adding a new nucleus service plan associated with the Microsoft 365 license. So it's not like premium and ultimate or gold, silver, bronze. It's nucleus. What does that even mean? Whatever. The nucleus service plan enables features associated with lists, sync and offline mode, it can be found in the M365 admin center. Lists, sync is packaged, installed and updated through the OneDrive sync apps existing update mechanism. So hey, let's just throw another name out there for a service plan. Why not? Yeah. Excellent. Yeah. Yeah. And we actually we actually have a service plan related question in the mix. So what an exciting day for us. I wouldn't expect anything different really. You know, I just wouldn't. Well, since there are no telephony questions today, I thought the best thing I could do is add a licensing related question. So there you go. All right, I got a couple more. The from you can never deliver enough content in teams. They are now going to allow a side by side and a reporter presenter mode with the desktop and window sharing. So essentially what they're going to give you is they're going to give you the ability to have two people presenting two different pieces of material at once inside of a teams meeting. I don't know, man, talk about confusion. I'm not a confusion of the presentation. I'm just thinking of do they understand the existing performance issues and so it's a first of a kind release future release that will allow presenters while they're sharing a screen in presenter mode to be able to present in two presentation layouts in an immersive experience along alongside their content. So they have content and then they have in their presentation mode and then they'll be able to bring up another piece of content and present that at the same time. So if you think about it, you can giving us the features that would actually compete with those platforms first other than something else that hasn't been tried, right? Yeah, it's because they're dazzling us. Sherry, come on. But that's with the basics first, please. Thank you. Yeah. If you take a look at this from a technical standpoint, if you're using something like OBS, OK, so nobody knows OBS, so open broadcasting software comes software. If you're using something like that, it's producing a single output stream. So it's only got one, you know, H265 or whatever stream that's coming out of that out of that software. It's not multiple versions of content or the pre-production. It's all local. So that heavy lifting happens locally. One signal going out. Right. Right. So I don't know. I I can't wait to see this thing play out and see what they kind of feedback they get. Yeah, I would. So second to last year. Yeah. Nice. And what they're doing with it, is they're allowing the variable playback speed for teams, meetings, recordings. Again, I cannot understand why they never had this option. You could never actually change the speed of playback for a team's recording. So you'd have to sit there and watch the whole thing go through or being able to work thing up, upload it in YouTube and then do it there. Right. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So they actually decided, hey, we're going to buy something in that will allow us to do this. And that's what they did, which they should have done a long time ago. But hey, it's it's coming. Oh, that's cool. That's cool. But Yalba, my brain moves faster than most of people's. Yeah. Like, get to the point. Yeah. And it's just like me. I mean, right now you could be speeding me up to get me through this last one here. Please. And this is this is more of a rant. OK. And the reason is because since we've met this, this feature came out in teams. And to me, it is now my new, you know, my new pet peeve, if you will. It's the department of we aim to be incredibly annoying at Microsoft, which is another incredibly large department. And it's the team chat bubbles. These things are incredibly annoying. But the pop up in the bottom right of the screen and or the top or wherever they want to pop up. And, you know, it'd be nice if they actually had them off by default, but they're on by default. And every meeting, you have to go in and turn them off. It's not even a setting that you can turn them off in your personal setting. It's a habit to go in there and I mute the channel every time. Yep. You have to mute the channel. I know. And it's just like, you know, to me, it's just annoying because it some of the meetings that I go into all the bit, I don't use a lot of these teams meetings in my regular workday. I use Zoom, but when I go to teams meeting, especially when we do things like our PGI's, which are program group interactions for those people who don't know out there, people will start out with the whole, hello, hi. You know, hi from Denmark, hi from Germany. How's the weather blah, blah, blah. And I'm like, think, think, think all these and I'm like, this is so annoying. Maybe it's just me. No, no. So that's why you have to go in there and mute that either have to because how it works for folks that aren't watching, you know, if you have teams open, if you don't have the chat open and invisible for the updates to come in real time across that chat, then, yeah. So the update notification bubbles pop up. And so I will go and mute that chat so that I can continue to watch it at my leisure, but I then can do something else on the side and multitask, which is always so successful anyway. But yeah. It continues to be my peeve that the chat bubbles pop up over the top of where you are typing. Right. Correct. And I asked Jeff Teeper about that. I can't remember one of the events and he said, no, I'm trying to get them to move that like good, like have us type in at the top and the bubbles come in at the bottom. So my tip is resize your meeting window just a little bit short of the right hand side of your screen and that it doesn't pop up in the lower right hand corner of teams, it pops from the lower right hand corner of your screen. Right. So that way you don't have it on the top of your chat. That's even worse, I think, because when presenters are presenting and their chat bubbles are they'll show it on their screen. You won't see the chat bubbles when they're presenting, but you all sudden see it's like having any other type of pop up. You have an outlook pop up or a slack pop up and it shows up. And then you've got somebody who slacks you saying something that you don't want everyone to see. Well, you know, but that should also be it. Should be that if you're in presentation mode, if you're on there, you know, that it knows to not pop those up, I'm saying that. Right. I know it doesn't. It should. But it should be in like a mute type function, you know, an auto mute function that you should be put in do not disturb mode. But if they have set their presence manually, it may not be recognized in the do not disturb mode. Right. That that that could be as well. But OK, so I'm done. But I'm pumped. Woohoo. Well, thank you very much, Mike. And once again, it's always great to get these updates and walk through. I see the emails that come through for one of my tenants, for my primary, my collab talk tenant. I see that stuff go through. Read a couple, depending on the headline, you know, you won't believe what happened with SharePoint today. Click here to find out more, whatever. They write the headlines like the click bait stuff. But it's great to go through the detail. And it is, of course, important for people to understand that there are no other updates that are important other than the ones that Mike has shared here today, because if it were important, if it were of any value at all, he would have shared it. So therefore, yeah, ignore all other message center updates. From the past month, I mean, going forward, I put the disclaimer in front that I picked it out, so I like it. Yeah, well, that's why it's good to put on screen again. The disclaimer here about anyway. So with that, well, thanks so much for that, Mike. And let's see, let's jump into the questions. I don't know if anybody has one. If you had a chance to take a look, there's anything that you want to address first, but we can just start number one and go through. It's been a whole month. So I don't think there was any homework from last time as well. But again, anybody that's watching the livestream, so out on YouTube or Facebook, if you have a question that you'd like us to attempt to tackle, then we're monitoring the feedback and we'll try to address the questions live. So feel free to ask. We've got a handful of people that are watching the livestream. And of course, in the recording, if you're watching this out on YouTube after the fact, you can always post your question and we'll address it next time or in the interim. So we actually do that, respond back and can send you an email or respond there within the chat and try to answer your question as well. So with that, question number one, Mia, here's that licensing question. So how can I prevent Exchange Online Plan one or EOP one users from accessing teams and SharePoint intranet? I was so sure that they couldn't, but they can. Right now, the internet has read access for all users. Is there any other way to let only E3 users have access? We'll let you unite that. So the Chef Online is obviously open. There is no license check. You just need to be synchronized into the tenor to be able to access it. The only way they could, I can think of the only way they could prevent users from accessing SharePoint and deliberately avoiding teams in this conversation would be to lock the tenor, lock the sites down by removing the kind of everyone groups and have a specific dynamic security group or a security group inside the tenor that then is used to provide permissions to the site. Now, do you have more granular control in teams to be able to go in through the Admin Center and and and select which license types have access? I haven't played around in the teams licensing section. As you know, from a content access perspective, behind the scenes, it's pretty much SharePoint permissions. But there is a layer on top that teams uses to provide access to things like channels and private channels. So it's a little different, but I don't have the I don't I didn't I haven't taken my teams up in course. Anybody else have experience with that? With the Exchange Online Plan one? So if you take away that, you take away teams, too, because SharePoint's underneath. That's the only question I have. It's like, if you do that, you limit their ability to work in teams. Right. Well, that's what she's saying. She's like these folks, I just want to have email access and not have access to teams in SharePoint. Isn't there an email only license? Yeah, no, that's what they have, but they're getting access to. Yeah, they will. Yeah, the SharePoint access is defaults to everyone except external. So you anyone that's synchronized into the tenant has access. There is no licensing check done. It's effectively a trust system. So obviously it would only apply to the root SharePoint site in the tenant. It shouldn't apply to subsites because they have their own emission model, not subsites or other site collections because they have their own permission model. But by default, the default SharePoint location that's generated when you create your tenant, they'll have access to that. Assuming they know how to find it, which is clearly they do. Can you do like a double negative? Can you create a new group, an EOP1 group, add all those people into that group and then deny them access or because they... There is no deny permission in SharePoint. There is no deny permission in SharePoint, unfortunately. Yeah, you have to do it the way I said earlier. I remove the everyone and apply the everyone apart from the people that she wants to use. It doesn't create a group with everybody that should have access and admit the people that shouldn't. Right. OK, yeah, sorry, Mia. That's that's kind of a pain. All right, question number two, Jerwin says, and here's one that was translated here. So I'll try we'll try to decipher here. So lock of storage in Drive C. So you know, exceeded limits of Drive C storage. Is there a good way to move the Outlook data file into Drive D? More than 10 email address configured out of space in Drive C. But Drive D has a terabyte. And the answer to that I've already posted in the chat. There are ways to move both the PSD and the OSD file. I've got links to both methodologies. Moving an OSD to a secondary drive is not really. Well, it's not really they advise not to, but you can certainly do it. And then it works just fine. The only thing that you can't do is put either one of these types of files on to any form of the network store because they'll corrupt. Yeah. Yeah. And for everybody watching too. So any links that were shared as part of our discussion here will be in the blog post, so I'll have this later this afternoon, have the complete recording. I will timestamp every one of the questions that are asked, and I'll put any include any relevant links to solutions that we we discuss within that blog post. And so again, that's at buckleyplanet.com. You can find that and I'll be tweeting that out and posting that in the feedback for for each of these locations. Wherever you find the recording, you should be able to find that link. A great site, which you should visit anyway. Yes, indeed. Yeah, I need to. I've been doing a lot of interviews, so MVP interviews and things out there. But I have a backlog of blog posts and content. Go into OneNote and click on. So there's a Microsoft support article about inserting a form or quiz into OneNote. Well, it's that pulling the data. It's not putting the form itself into OneNote, but dynamically as people enter data into a form, she wants that their answers to then import into that client related. OneNote. So that there's no path. There's there's nothing you'd have to go build a custom solution. I mean, I saw a couple of generic answers. People say, well, build a PowerShell solution. Yeah, thank you for not actually helping with that answer. That's that the typical end user is going to create like a JSON something or other. Right. Yeah. For me, it would be the formatting in that. And I use I put information from forms into a SharePoint list. And then that I don't know how you could print that out. Maybe using a Microsoft template that attaches to that list. And then you could print that out. But it's going to be manual. There's just no easy way to do that. You know, back in the old days, I mean, I used to know how to go and do that, where you could actually if you so automatically archive that from the intake form and forms to Excel where it goes and it's not going to be real time. It'll be like daily. It will go and save down the latest responses to the form as a CSV. You could then pick up that CSV, parse the data and then publish in multiple locations. I don't have the experience of doing that into one note. Like it would have to create a new customer, you know, a note within one note and then pull the information in like that just doesn't exist. You're not going to it's a lot. You could create a lot of work and still not get to the solution that I think that Don is asking for when I think the solution is you pull the CSV, the Excel file with the download, copy the out the information for that client and dump it over, paste it into one note. So you have that all of the responses that were completed for that client. I don't know of another method to to do that for one note. Yeah, and I did one of my courses for LinkedIn Learning. I did advanced document creation where basically same thing. You enter information to a SharePoint list. It attaches to the template and it produces the document. So it's basically like a mail merge and I'll put a link to the chat in the chat if that's somebody's interested in. Yeah, and again, a free trial if they want to go watch the class. But again, I said, yeah, so I think there are a lot of the solution of building it into one note, I think is the kind of the stopper in this this issue. I mean, there's a lot of other ways that I would like I love one note, I live and breathe in it. I understand that I have all of my customer sayings, all of my partner, the regions around my company, around the world. Everything is within one note for that. But to link it to an external facing form to organize that. I mean, again, you can build power apps to automate. You can use lists to better organize and structure that information to make it more searchable. But all of those have a disconnect from one note. Yeah, you're right. 100 percent. So yeah, it using I mean, essentially where probably the better long term solution, depending on the size and the growth of the company is to dump that information within your CRM platform. So you have customer record with all of those notes and things that are attached to that that you can do via forms or lists or however you want to structure that with all the automation into CRM. But one note is just not set up in that way to be able to do this scenario. All right, I love dashing people's dreams against the rocks of reality. You're welcome, Don. All right, question number four from Ashley. I have a document that I like the format of and would like to reuse it for future documents, a copy from Notepad and paste in the word. OK, so how can I do this? Styles, macros, templates. So it's a document that you'd like to reuse created as a template. Yeah, save it as a doc. T. What is the extension doc? Do you use to be do T now? There's another piece to that, though, because you can save your fonts and your colors and your styles as a theme. And then you can apply that to any document, just like you do the other themes that are built in. So I have two links in the chat for that, for saving it as a template and saving your styles as a thing. Yeah, I don't think you can actually bring those into one note, though. I don't think you get a cross colony. This is not a one note thing. This isn't a one note question. No, but so there I copy from Notepad and paste into word. Oh, OK, I thought she was saying that she wanted to use it in future documents and other OK, no, but but there has been movement on styles within one note. This is a sideways topic so that you could actually do that, even do like the format painter and move between any of the relevant Microsoft docs. I don't know where that is. I've not looked at it in a while. That's like a couple years old that Microsoft said that they were trying to bring one note up to speed with some of those capabilities with word and PowerPoint, but they get rid of that. Every time you put a hyperlink in, you can't take the hyperlink up and that's something other other other other problems there. But yeah, but I mean, that's I think kind of simple solution is exactly what you guys have said. It's yeah, save it as a template, go in and format to your heart's delight. Save it as a template and then you can automate that, put that as part of the forms over time, you go and say new customer and open up that and save that with the naming mechanism for the file name as well as everything inside. Yeah. And you can have macros as part of the template. You can kind of anything else that you want to automate. Yep. So that's a yeah, that's been around for a long time. Been able to do that. All right. Number five, Tiago, I want to improve our process for those who's working from home, from our team. We need to fill up the Excel file for our sign in and sign out for attendance when we are working. Can anyone help? How can I can automate rather than we ourselves manually filling up Excel for the respective user? I'm trying to check MS forums or Power Apps. We're looking at any outboard. You know, and I think all looks actually got any an add on for an outboard. I don't know if you have to pay for it. Well, isn't that kind of the purpose of shifts as well? Yeah, well, shifts isn't planner doesn't planner also for check in, check out for attendance. Yeah. I mean, you're not I guess I guess you maybe you need to define our people, people manually, you know, click in and click out or is it like, hey, you're going by your calendar and, you know, you check in and out that way. It's kind of like the call centers. When you enable your phone, you know, you're checking in to receive calls. Yeah. You know, and you disable your phone and walk away. You're you're a long part of the queue. Right. Yeah. Yep. I think that's what it is. It's kind of like the punch card punch in punch out. So it's a manual process or somebody is doing that on their behalf now via Excel, but but yeah, staffing can do that. You can do that, you know, by well, I mean, in calendar will show that you intend to be there and available. I think that's part of the issue is when do they actually arrive and go and do that? So it's a it's a remote punch card. Yeah, there could be elements of recording purposes here as well. If it's for like checking, check out, you know, when you're on shift, could be really times you even get paid. So maybe many historical records as well as just are you available? Maybe when you were you available last week and how much we're going to pay you per hour, whatever it might be. I mean, this is a number of possible requirements here. Yeah. Yeah. If they're just looking for an in and out board, there is an add into teams as well. I put that link in the chat. Awesome. And also, it kind of depends on how much overhead you want to have, because if you have a separate app, you know, everybody's got to install that app. Everybody's got to be running that app. You know, if it's actually part of an existing app, like it is an add on to Excel or it's an add on the teams or it's an add on the outlook or something. Then it's just extra baggage on those apps that they already use. So kind of depends on how you want to look at it. Yeah, I mean, I was thinking of like an operation scenarios and having where you have SLAs in place for response time to customers and all that kind of thing. There's other ways that you measure that. I mean, if people are generally available, they're they're logged into the system. So you know, when they've logged in and when they log out of the system and you can get reporting on that of when people were available within the system. If somebody's logged in and yet their response time, you know, it's lagging when they've completed a call like a call center or support when they complete a call before they pick up the next call. And a lot of call centers have metrics around that. I don't know if this is that's the scenario this person is asking about. But but otherwise, you know, if people are logged into the system, I mean, you can grab that data. Yeah. So. All right. Well, so number six, Ken says, I'm sure this has been addressed before. Oh, no. And this is this is funny that I think every time this is episode 63, I think I feel fairly safe in saying that every single time we did it, there were questions about calendars. Probably it is one of the most common questions out there. Where's the best place? How do you sync them? And and yet for all these years of always having these issues, in fact, the SharePoint 2010 book that I co-authored, we had calendar syncing is selfless plug. Yes. Yes. Go buy a brand new copy of our SharePoint 2010 book. Yes. Me, Wes Preston, Jennifer Mason and Brian Jacket. Yes, please go buy that. And so he says, I keep all of my calendar events and contacts on Outlook on my desktop computer, I've not yet figured out how to view these Outlook calendar events and contacts on my iPad and my Motorola Android mobile phone. The Outlook calendar and contacts on my computer is on this computer only. How can I get these Outlook calendar events and contacts on my computer so I can access them on my iPad and mobile phone? With an Out, with an IMAP account in Outlook, you cannot. That is just the nature of the beast. You have an IMAP account. IMAP accounts do not synchronize contacts, calendars or 2Ds or journal entries or anything besides email and the folders that contain them. So in a case like this, the easy thing you can do with Outlook is to get yourself a free outlook.com account. Outlook.com synchronizes calendars, contacts, 2Ds, tasks, everything that you've got. I don't use this for email, but use it for just your contacts and your calendars and you're in good shape. I have placed a link in the chat there on how to take care of those. This computer only folders to keep them from them and you from getting burned. Should your OST file have a problem? Which they do. So, Hal, let me ask you, would it make sense just to have them install the actual Outlook client and all these devices in order to have everything sync? No, that doesn't help at all. The problem with that is, again, it's the type of account. An IMAP account does not synchronize contacts, calendars or any of that stuff. Only emails and folders. So, IMAP account and that's the only reason you're going to have this computer only folder in Outlook. OK, so this computer. For Pop3, Pop3 doesn't have contacts, calendars and all that either, right? No, the only thing that you can synchronize your contacts and calendars with in Outlook as an email account is an Outlook.com or Hotmail or Exchange server. That's the only ones that support syncing on that. And it does a beautiful job, which is why I suggest a fruit.outlook.com, Hotmail account, whatever, you'll get all that. And only you have to use it for the only purpose you need to use it for is simply for your contacts, calendars and other stuff. You don't have to use it for email or change or email address or anything like that. And that way, you hook up that account in Outlook on your other devices. There is an iOS version of Outlook and just put an Outlook, put in both accounts and use the Outlook.com account for contacts and calendars. There you go. The definitive answer from Hal Hossetter, right there. No other explanation is needed. Yeah. For something like that. Well, hey, we've got a along those lines. The next question here, I see I've got it split up between but seven and eight or the one I was going to say, wait a minute, number seven didn't make sense to me there. So number seven, my response was, congratulations. It's a statement, I know. So I'll read it as that. Paul says, I have just migrated a company from Office 365 Home Family to Microsoft 365 Business Premium. Period. Yeah. OK, good job. Number eight is the rest of this question. I exported their PST files, set up the new accounts and imported the files. However, on the desktop version of Outlook 365, some folders are empty, even though in OWA and on OWA, the folders contain emails. The computers were new, fresh installs, as was the Office 365 Outlook install. I've tried creating a new profile on a different computer and the desktop result is the same, empty folders. Anyone else had this issue? And if so, how do you resolve it? I remember we had this question before. Yeah. How long did you wait once you put the account in? Outlook, when it's developing a new OST or downloading and creating an OST file, can take forever. Yeah. My and I've got a big one. Unfortunately, my email accounts on Outlook.com is on the Disney on 9 to 10 gig range. And if I, which I just had to do with this new computer, I will have to add. I don't know that my Outlook has completely finished syncing my Outlook.com account yet. It's been a better part of 24 hours, but it's a big mailbox. And the synchronization just simply does not happen very fast. So the first thing to do is you wait a couple of three, four, five hours and then see if you've got anything in those folders or not, right? Because it can take a while. Well, then you have to leave it open. You have to leave it open. Exactly. Yes. Tim, let's see this. Yeah. So I mean, I just ran into this. That's why I saw this question. I was like, I had just experienced this where I had, you know, was going through of a former client, had a question, not worked with them in two years, and I was trying to find data that was relevant for them. And I'm like, open up the folder empty. And it just took a while for it to refresh for it to catch up. And it was all still there. Another thing that you might have to pay attention to is to how much email you're synchronizing. Outlook has for iMap and exchange server accounts has a synchronization slider that lets you decide how much of the email that's on the server to keep offline in your OST. If you have got it set for a month and are looking for something that's three months old, you're going to find it without a search because it just simply will not be an outlook. It will be on the server, but not in the local area. All right. And cherry went in dark mode there. So all right, let's let's move forward. Yeah, there we go. The be right back. Look at that. That's awesome. So professional. That's awesome. All right. So question number nine. David asks, says, hi, I've created a SharePoint site page for my work and looking to hyperlink text to an Excel document. Can this be done from the SharePoint page or do I need to do anything in Excel? Jerry, come back. So so you can so in on a SharePoint page. No, if it's just a hyperlink to an Excel document. So usually that documents embedded somewhere in the SharePoint site or it could be anywhere doesn't matter. If you're just looking to generate a hyperlink to an Excel, that's just like any other hyperlink, isn't it? I don't see. You said they wouldn't have to do anything in Excel unless he's trying to do something like expose content from the Excel document, but that's not a hyperlink. That's something else entirely. Right. Yeah, so if it's just, yeah, then I'm like, yes, you can do it. And wherever that Excel file lives, but then you run to the issue of people trying to click on it, they don't have the right permissions, then they'll get an error or get a request to get permissions to that. Or if you've you've linked it to local, so only you can click on the link and get to that file, but you can do all of those things, depending on what you want to do. So yeah, this is one of those want to better understand what he's actually trying to do and where, what within SharePoint. But yeah, yes. The other thing is if it's created a SharePoint site page, you could be looking at, you know, OK, you create a page. What is he looking to do in terms of what what can all his web parts, et cetera, is he using on that page? I mean, the classic one, think about the classic SharePoint, the content editor would allow you to embed hyperlinks in there. So whatever you whatever he's using to edit the content of the page with respect to text editor in the various controls, it should have a hyperlink feature. Yep. Or if you've got that and other files, you can create a link list and just the list on the side. I mean, yeah, I mean, you got multiple options there. So. OK. Yeah, I don't think it's any more complicated than that. All right. Jorge, question 10, is there any way to assign an exam in Microsoft Teams via Microsoft Forms, but in a way that students can't see the correct answers after they have finished the exam? I've never done exams. I'm fine. I don't know. So that's a forms question. So it's not really teams. It's a Microsoft Forms. So is there a way to make it so when you complete the form, you submit it that you can't then see the answers? I don't know that there's anything I'd have to go back and look and play with. You know, I thought there was an option that respondents couldn't see the responses. I thought there was a check box. I had to look. I don't know. Yeah, I believe that's the case. And toggles the case. I don't toggles on or off. But again, there's nothing that's in teams that's unique to teams. And there's nothing specifically for teams for education with forms. This is a Microsoft Forms question. And yeah, you do have the ability to turn that on and off. Yeah, so so I guess, yes. Jorge, yes. You're welcome. All right. So question number eleven. Joel says, I don't know where to go with this. I have a second calendar and outlook. See calendar questions are popular. I have a second calendar and outlook. Three, six, five decks desktop that I created for certain invites, so not my main default calendar. The invites I send from that calendar, they don't show any tracking information, even though people do send responses. I can't find anything out there that's similar to my issue. So gone and created just a second calendar, a standalone calendar. For certain invites, so for like an event or a community type thing. But the invites from that calendar don't have any tracking information. So tracking information, I'm assuming is whether people responded and accepted or tentative or rejected the invite. When you when you create a chief prose, it must have been a great answer for. Yeah, sure. You froze up on us. Goodness. All right, there she is. Where is that? Teams keeps fritzing in and out of me. I don't know. Is anybody else's just me? No. And we're OK. It's just me. Yeah, so that you get a bad unit, a message when you try and add something to another calendar. It'll tell you this won't be tracked. It's not in your standard account. So it shouldn't be a surprise. So what do you mean it's not not tracked? I mean, so so those other people to the respondents get a this won't be tracked. No, she froze again. Yeah, because to be honest, so I've not in years created from a single like my primary, my work account, for example, gone and tried to create a secondary calendar. Generally, when I create secondary calendars, it's within other locations. So my Microsoft community profile, my collab talk, which is a community related profile elsewhere, not my AppPoint company one, where I go and create those things. So but if I wanted to as part of AppPoint, I wanted to create like a M365 AMA calendar because we've decided to go back to not only weekly, but three times a week, Monday, Wednesday, Friday for two hours every morning, those three times a week, create a calendar for that. So, hey, so, Sherry, you were just saying that you look to be back now. So I asked the question, is it when and you're muted now? But when is it that the people receiving when they when they've received an invite via that other counter invite, when they respond, it sends a message and says, but this is not being tracked. Or when I, the calendar owner, when I send those invites out, it says, yes, but these won't be tracked. When you when you as the owner. OK, there we go. And we lost her again. But yeah, that's too bad. It's just I suspect sunspots are at play. All right. Yeah. I don't know anything else to add, Jens, while we're waiting for Sherry, if she has more to say here. No, if she comes back, we can always come back to this question and answer the rest of it. But but yeah, that's a so that's just a known behavior for that. And I mean, my follow up question be like, you know, what? Joe, what are you trying to track there? I mean, what's if people are able to respond or not, you're able to go log in and see the you know, can you see the acceptance or rejections or are you blind to it? On that second counter. Yeah. We may never know if Sherry doesn't isn't able to come back. She's going to try logging back on. So let's jump to the next question. We may come back to that. So this is the next question from. Don't don't murder it. Oh, I'm going to butcher this. Mania Hill shall. And I'll think that OK. And Sherry, we'll we could try again if you want to finish your statement on that. We'll try one more time. No, no, no, no, there she is again. Then she just froze again. All right. I switched to my hotspot. So I'm hoping that'll help. I don't know what's going on on my internet. You know, we only have control over so much in our life. Yeah, when you create a calendar invite and you put it in a secondary calendar and even if you said it sends the creator a message, it says this will not be tracked. It's not in your normal calendar, like your official calendar. So they should it shouldn't be a surprise. So does that mean that you won't see if people accepted or rejected the invites? Yeah, OK. Yeah, it's like it's it's this folder. It's not like a you know, like the standard account, like your email. I can create another mailbox, right? Yeah, but it doesn't automatically put them there unless I add the mail to that. It's like it's like a folder to organizational structure. It's not a official thing like your tasks. You can create multiple tasks, but only certain ones open your to do because they're part of your official stuff. So I don't know how those things are configured. I just know that whenever I I have a lot of secondary calendars for the same reason you just said, you know, it's like community events. I don't want my main one, but I want to be aware of them. I can add them to my own calendar, but it always says this will not be tracked. You will not be reminded, you know, that kind of thing. Yeah, so that's what I do is I set up those different calendars on those different profiles and then I have I show a blended view on my calendar. I've got, you know, so I have visibility into those to be able to manage and work with those events, I have to go over into that account to be able to manipulate. But at least I have like a my point calendar. I can see in different color coded. I can see my Microsoft community, my collab talk events and, you know, any other tenants that I'm a member of. So these are not for for guest accounts because those invites would be done through my primary that I log in through. But these are other full, full log in tenant experiences. Right, those calendars, so. All right. Well, now, unfortunately, I have to try and say this name again. Question 12. Mania Hill, a shawl mania. Hello, is there an out of the box way to merge multiple PDF files into one PDF file? I'm using modern SharePoint. No, no, no, no, no. SharePoint is another tool for that. Acrobat, but yeah, Acrobat DC or some other PDF application. Yep. Now, I mean, there's trying to think is with the if you have the PDFs within the office app, does it allow you to combine there? I know that when you're snapping photos of things, like if I sign a contract and I'll use Office Lens or the Office app, you know, sign the paper document, take a snap a picture of that. I can then take subsequent snaps, you know, the entire contract or agreement and it will compile those into one PDF. I think I've not done it in a while, but I used to had the full Acrobat as well. So I'm trying to remember if my memory is of the Acrobat app that allows you to combine PDFs, it's an actual feature. Whether Office app allows you to then merge multiple PDFs. I don't believe so, but yeah. You can say that, but, you know, Microsoft and Adobe have been working very nicely together recently. They've got a lot of partnership going on. So who knows? Yep. Yeah, unfortunately, you're going to have to, I think, again, you can look at other competing PDF management solutions that are out there. But Acrobat is probably going to be the way you're going to want to go for that. If it's an ongoing thing. So the one that I use is called PDF Exchange. And that allows you to merge PDFs. I believe it does. Truthfully, I don't think I've ever tried doing that. But it is a very, very complete integer and it's cheaper than Acrobat. Well, I would guess that any other PDF solution management solution out there will be cheaper than Adobe. So yeah. I like aspects of Adobe, but their stuff is pricey. You can maybe find a better product, but you cannot spend more. Correct. So if that is your goal, you can do no better than Adobe. That's right. That saying is taken for Motorola radios. You can maybe buy a better radio, but you can't spend more on that. That's interesting enough. A little side story. Christian likes to do side stories. So I'm going to jump on one here. Yeah. Trying to actually get out of an Adobe Creative Cloud license is difficult. It's I compare it to actually trying to call your cable provider. And get out of a gym membership, get out of a package or something like that. It's just it's something that, you know, I dread doing it's frustrating to no end. Even before I get them on the call, it's frustrating to me. Produces a high level of anxiety. But Creative Cloud is similar because you can only cancel if you call them. You can cancel online, but it tells you you have to call them to process your refund if in any refund. And secondly, if you go beyond six months, you owe them the entire year. They won't give you. Oh, yeah, yeah, that's right. The entire year. Yeah. So even if you don't use a product, they make you pay for it. Yeah, which to me is just ridiculous. Yeah, I know that each each year when the invoices come up for standalone products for my wife, who uses illustrator and other, she's a design student and I'm like, OK, this is what came up with the price. Five hundred or seven hundred dollars, something like that, you know, for the to renew and I'm like, do you still need this? Do you really need this? Yes, I'm like, all right. OK, I'm going to pony it up again. I just don't understand why companies make it so difficult to because I don't know if anybody's used another example. I don't know if anybody's ever used a serious XM. No. OK, so serious XM in order to cancel, you have to call. And they automatically give it to you free when you buy your car. Yeah, but but you have to have so long auto renew option enabled. And if you want to cancel, you have to call and they send you directly if you're an existing customer that wants to cancel. They send you to the retention department. Yep. And they'll work you over the retention department is the relentless abuse department. It's it's it's to the point of you just say, I don't want it anymore. Leave me alone. Go away. If they play that same game when you want to renew to because they always want you to renew for three hundred and some dollars or something like that. And the average renewal price is a whole lot lower than that. So you call up and you complain when it's time to renew. And then they'll drop it down a ways. In my case, they dropped it from three something down to one hundred and seventy five. Well, I didn't feel like paying out in seventy five. So we went round and round on that. And I finally said close it and they closed it completely. And then I said, let me speak to your supervisor and the supervisor comes on. And I said, how do I fix this? And she says, oh, we'll just give you the count back. And because you're a new subscriber, you'll get the you'll get the brand new rate. And so the games you have to play with such departments is absurd. So I regressed. Sorry, Christian. Yeah, no, it's all right. It just made me think, too, of, you know, the couple of times where I called up to cancel like Netflix and then they gave it to me at the old pricing just to keep me all the same and some more people need to know about that. Call up and threaten to to cancel and get the service for, you know, cheaper. Yeah. So the actual biggest cheaper you can get my twelve ninety nine a month, you get nothing. Yeah, the biggest mistake you can make, I found out, is calling your cable company and telling them that you want to get rid of the cable because you've got it somewhere else cheaper. That just ignites a whole firestorm of, well, we can throw this service in. And if you do this bundle package, you know, we can we can we can be, you know, ten bucks under what you're going to pay that other provider. No problem, you know. But in a year, the cost is going to double because this plan is only good for 12 months. Yeah. And then we're not going to tell you it's going to double. You'll it all sudden you'll get one bill that'll be like twice the amount. You'll be like, what happened? Hey, I said, then you call back in and you say, I'm going to cancel on there. Oh, we'll get you to the new rate. We'll get to the new rate. So on that topic, I mean, should we even address the the licensing increases? Oh, my goodness, Neil. What do you have to say for your company? I got to tell you on the spot like that. No, no. Some of those are just I'm just I'm just kidding. We're we're not going to go into that. That's yeah. But anyway, the Windows 11 alone. A cost increase. What are they thinking? I mean, they used to give Windows 10 upgrades away for free if you had Windows eight or Windows seven, you know, but Windows 11. Well, what what are they, you know, and not only that, but they're requiring you to go if they if it actually works out or they require TPM 2.0, you know, in the bios and that as an actual hard requirement when this thing goes GA, they're not only requiring you the license costs, which I think is ridiculous. But then the hard you got to buy a new piece of hardware. Yeah. Yeah, the map is is the processor you got in machine because it will only support an 8th gen processor or better. Why are they doing this and the Surface Pro five that I have more secure environment? So so how is that what killed your Surface Pro? No, that is the Surface Pro. Yeah, I don't know what killed it. So so, Neil, we're not actually putting any pressure on you to answer anything there. I'm just saying I like my job. I'm saying yeah, I don't know anything. So I just say no, I just say under across all of that. It's like why Microsoft doing that? It's like, look at their stock price and just jumped up again and they're doing pretty well. So all right, question 13. Kevin says, does anyone know if we can still pass user ID and password through the URL to a form or site library? I've been trying it, but it does not work and does not throw an error. Why would you want to use your name and a password in a URL really? Yeah, why don't you take that to a URL shortener, you know, and send it and submit it to Bitly. And so, you know, that everybody knows your username and password. Come on. I'm sorry. So is that our answer is to slap Kevin for asking the question. That's my smack answer. The security smack, smack answer. But oh, even better, user service account. Yeah. A global admin, my global account right out there. Yeah, but it's easy then to get in and out of stuff. It's it helps my end users to be more productive, Mike. Oh, absolutely. Productive at what? That's what I'm afraid of. So can is it possible to still do it? Or has it been shut down? I guess it's been shut down because you have to authenticate. So and, you know, just even in trying to log in as a different user and a different tenant, I have to do it in private browser because otherwise it conflicts with my machine credentials like, wait, are you Sherry or are you Megan Bowen? Like, you know, the fictitious Kantozo people. So it's not I'm not trying to log in as somebody else. These are like demo accounts, right? So the just be clear. So yeah, it's going to conflict anyway. It's going to say, that's not who your machine says you are. So yeah, it's a progression of security. It really is. And you get I mean, I get I got a person that I'm working with that is like doesn't want to get, you know, is so paranoid about their bank pins and everything else and doing online banking is like taboo. But then they complain to me when I enable MFA and they have to have an MFA app to, you know, be able to authenticate to something. What? I got to have another app now just to authenticate, you know, just to log in to this. I'm like, yeah. Question 14 and just to put a little more context, this did come from the Microsoft Teams for Education user group on Facebook. Leilani asks, Hi, what is the purpose of the channel and a location when I schedule a meeting using the calendar? I can address that the location is actually if it's a physical location. So people it does provide if you're on mobile and it's a physical location, then they would be able to like use maps or whatever. There's an integration for that. But the channel is a little bit different. You can add like a passive meeting to a channel in teams and then everybody in the channel or who focuses on that channel would be it would just appear on their calendar without actively inviting each person and requesting an RSVP. So it's really good for things like recurring team meetings or project updates that are just there without people having an RSVP and then you whoever is part of the channel gets invited so you don't leave somebody out inadvertently. But also the caveat on the channels is that you cannot invite external users to a channel meeting. So I can't say if Christian and I were in the same tenant and I invited him, I can't invite the other three of you to join us because it's in a channel. So it's a lockdown. Well, and Sherry, why would you want to invite the three of them? You and I talked about all of our secret meetings anyway. We don't we don't need them. So we don't need that. We're talking productivity. They're talking all the other stuff is the channel. So that's neither one of those that is a required field for that. I mean, location, if it's not relevant, if you don't have a physical location, you leave it empty, but the channel for that meeting type, like, do you have to set that? No, neither one, they're both not required. And then the location could just be like conference room B. It doesn't have to be. Or just put or you put online or leave it blank because they'll already have the team's meeting invite. Right, exactly. Or a Zoom meeting. Yeah, yeah. Well, it's not a question. Is it is it going to become like, will it be like Google? Like what we say, well, I'm going over to Bing so I can Google it. Well, we'll we'll Zoom just become another way of saying, you know, an online meeting. Well, we'll zoom that using Teams. Oh, it already has. You lost the verb, you lost the four. Yeah, I mean, that's just it. I mean, companies now they say, oh, want to Zoom? Yeah, you know, they're going to say one of teams. Yeah. All right. Hey, we've got time for one last question here with 15 with Muhammad. And this is I just thought this is an interesting question. And, you know, to to talk about just kind of education for me as well. But Muhammad asked question. What hardware and software is being used in Azure or any other cloud services that you're getting resources in just a couple of minutes, like VM with OS, subnet, public IPS, load balancer, firewall, etc. And so should I say cloud effect to other vendors who provide services mentioned above as you getting these all just a few clicks? So just so it's more of a like just trying to understand like what what kind of, you know, what's what's behind the curtain with with Azure? Like these are fantastic services that are just ready to go to instantly configure and run all these services. What is Microsoft running under the hood? Instant gratification, really. I mean, it's really good. And Neil, I know you want to talk about this too, but there's some great sessions that have happened in the last five years at Ignite from Mark, on exactly what you said, what's behind the curtain at Azure? He actually steps through the different technologies specifically around the compute, networking, storage and connectivity, everything and the service fabric. All that type of architecture is outlined in those videos. You can search for him on YouTube. He does a great. It's Mark, he does a great job explaining all of it. And he does some great demos as well. But essentially what you're dealing with is just dealing with a modified version of Hyper-V that's running on the bare metal. And it's all, you know, meshed into a service fabric. And that service fabric allows for the rapid deployment. And by rapid, it's it's really it's really something that is depends on your view of rapid, but it is incredibly much faster than you'd be able to do on-premises because it's all based off of templating. It's all based off of ARM Resource Manager, which are now being converted to bicep. So, Neil, if you want to add, go ahead. I was just going to add the same thing, Mike, actually, about the videos from Mark from Mark are exceptional. Obviously, it's the public view of what's going on down the scenes. Things like a couple of things that just link in that question from my arm at Deba, you know, how do we deploy a VM with an operating system on it? That's all imaging. So they're pre-canned images that are the company's storage location and they they're rolled out and they provide, as Mike mentioned, templates which allow you to customize them. So it's basically a, you know, it's a it's it is Hyper-V on steroids. Really, if you think about it, we're a whole lot of other fabric around it that just enables that rapid deployment of services. The one thing to, I guess, to point out the question we say, no, we have subnet, public IPs, local answers files. These are not physical devices in the way you'd think about building this in your own data center. Yeah, they are virtual. So virtual devices are very easy to manipulate, control and configure. You know, we don't have to deploy Nix, we don't have to deploy your physical box for you unless you're using things like some of your some of the services that are dedicated. But it's and it's that abstraction that allows that level of flexibility and speed. I'd say that, you know, GPC and AWS, you know, it was just a comment that it was really amazing to see some of the growth of this like being involved with MMS and BPOS. So before it became brand is Office 365. And when we would have to go and we were slow on some of our initial deployments of the MMS and BPOS solution because we were buying hardware. So we had to purchase and scale for, you know, for your performance of a team of, you know, of 20,000 employees, the number of servers that we'd have to have ready so that it would perform like it's fine in the middle of the night with, you know, across 20,000 employees, maybe 100 people online. But what if 12,000 of those 20,000 were all on it at the same time? We had to to architect for that. And we didn't have what we have now with with Azure and the scalability right. And so, yeah. Yeah. And I mean, you take a look at the hardware specifically, you know, it's custom hardware, but it's it's it's interchanged. It's commodity to a lot of people think that they're using really high end stuff. And they're they're they're, you know, using stuff that you can just buy from Super Micro or whatever. No, that's not true. This is all customized stuff made specifically for Azure data centers. You can actually go out and take a look at projects like Project Pelican and you can actually go out and take a look at those and see the hardware that's being used and how how specific it is. I mean, it's it's engineered. It's like a car. It's engineered to do exactly this task, you know, right down to, you know, the capacitor level that you're doing a specific task of making, you know, hardware that is that allows for this rapid compute and scalability. So when they pull a hard drive, they pull a hard drive and they throw it away. I mean, it doesn't mean anything because, you know, the volume that they're also using in these data centers is massive. It's just it's incredibly large. It's, you know, if anybody's ever able to go and do a walkthrough, again, I did it early early on, was able to go down and visit one of the Microsoft. Obviously, it doesn't advertise like where all the data centers are. But one that's down by the Seattle, the SeaTac Airport just had like the the other beginning of Tron allow that anymore. No, I know, I know. And at the time, I was a purple badge. So I had some ability to get in and take a look around. But we got to walk through and the door was like the beginning of the movie. Tron, where's the giant door that just keeps opening for five minutes? This is massively deep door. Like it can, I think, survive a non-direct nuclear warhead hit kind of strength, you know, it's just amazing. But to go in and see that and then you really understand, too, you're right, that it's the way that they're going through and pulling drives and resetting things and moving through, you know, it's irrelevant. There isn't like the old days of the old. Those are my company working with data centers. I go in, I knew my hardware. I knew our systems that were being maintained. The data center, I was updating the binders with, you know, instructions for the people that were managing it within the data center on our behalf, like those days are long gone. Like, yeah, anyway, it's interesting space to go and look at. There have been many articles written about what Microsoft has done and some of the advances, there was a great article where they went in to talk about some of the broader Azure capability when they did the data center in a box that was like a train car. And they dropped it in the ocean like up north of Scotland or something. It was one of the tests for the cold water up there for cooling of the unit. But they talked a lot about what goes into building out these these data center assets, really fascinating stuff. Obviously not fascinating enough to keep Mike's attention till. But we are over time at the end here. So I want to say thank you to to Neil, Sherry and how for sticking it out the entire time, Mike, you know, just work on that sustain of his time. But despite a crummy internet connection, that's right. That's right. You still held on. I know, I know some some people are more professional than others. That's all I'm going to say. So but my little bad note I heard, yeah. But really appreciate everybody's time. And again, thanks for everybody who is watching the recording or watch part of the live show again, we'll be back on actually September 8th in two weeks, two weeks. So we'll be back with another episode. You'll in the meantime, the recording will be on on YouTube. It's already there. If you go out and search for a collab talk, you'll find the latest recordings as well as past recordings. I will go through and have a blog post this evening where every question, every topic that we covered, and I'll time stamp that so you don't have to wade through 90 minutes of recording. You can jump exactly to the area. And with that, thanks all. And we'll see you next time. Thank you. And now I'll just fade in the music again, because that's what I do.