 But why don't we jump right in to message center updates, Mike, what has been happening? What's going on? I'm going to jump right in, Christian. All right. Yeah. So exchange server vulnerability update, everybody knows what's going on there, I hope, if you haven't, you're living under a rock. And what's happened is last patch Tuesday, yay patch Tuesday, last Tuesday they released 89 patches, 15 of them were for the zero day that has affected exchange. So what I found interesting about that is that they are just now on March 9th, actually sending out the notification to exchange administrators to say, hey, you might want to think about patching these servers. That official announcement actually went out on March 9th in the news channel that goes into M365 for administrators. And I found that extremely disturbing that it would take that long for them to release something like that. But Mike, it is optional though. So I have in this free society, I could choose for myself. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. It's just like getting that vaccine shot. Yeah. So moving on, one point, one point, one drive and share point. Remember, I don't know, maybe it was like three weeks ago, two or three weeks ago, we talked about they were going to take the send link to Outlook. Do you remember this conversation, Sean, when the send link to Outlook was going to be retired? Yeah, I seem to recall that. Guess what? They're not doing it anymore. They actually listened to the users. I guess there was a big uprising in the Microsoft forums about when they were going to do this. Now they say, you know what? We're not going to do it anymore. So they basically come out and say that the Outlook sharing option will remain until further notice. And thank you for your feedback. Did executive shout out psych as well? Yeah. Exactly. When the crowd shouts you down, I guess you win. I think it's a great example of Microsoft actually listening to the users. They made a decision. They listened to the users or something else on the back end, like, hey, some engineer came up and said, you know, we can't do this. But you know, the thing is that it's a good thing because people didn't want it to happen. Moving on, Microsoft teams, you now have an option coming up here to be mobile optimized network data usage, which means that they're actually going to offer inside of the mobile app the ability to change the setting where you can reduce the data used in the following circumstances, whether it's a never, which is a default cellular or always. So if you're only on cellular, you can reduce the data usage that teams uses. I'm assuming that that teams uses an extraordinary large amount of data when you have a large meeting. So that's got to be a good thing. I have to say that I've seen quite a few people that are in a meeting will jump between mobile because they're out being mobile and jump while in a meeting in between mobile and their other device. Right. So I think it works a lot better than you'd expect it to work. And I experienced that with other people doing that maybe once or twice per week. The fact that it works at all is amazing. So the fact that you have the ability to change some of these settings so that you're using less data should only in theory improve that experience. So then you got to come out with, you know, they allow for policy, so if in tune from an MDM perspective, a company goes out and says, okay, we're going to turn off or we're going to flip the switch on that and change it from never to cellular. So then you're going to have users come back and say, hey, I can't see all the video fees when I'm on my phone, you know, and all this other kind of stuff. Well, you know, it's all going to become part of the policy. So it's got all be merged into that. From an individual basis, I mean, I can understand people wanting to do it, but I think corporations are going to have a little different take on it, especially if they're paying the bill. SharePoint events. So this has been something that I have dealt with. And you know me. I don't deal with SharePoint a lot at all. But SharePoint events never would allow you to put an image in with an event that has just not been possible. And it's something that I always thought was really weird is that you had like a, you know, some kind of poster or something that went along with that event. You wanted to show that image. And they never, you know, that just wasn't possible before. So now they're going to begin rolling that out. So late March, you know, they're going to start rolling it out and expect everyone else to get it around late June. So let's see what else here. Last but not least, we have the presenter view in teams. So I don't know if anybody's noticed this, but in presenter in you use PowerPoint, you have the presenter view. I don't use that a lot. I think it's kind of annoying. Actually, if I had a, if I had a confidence monitor, if I'm up on stage and I have a confidence monitor, then I like presenter view. But when I'm using multiple screens, you know, I, for some reason I just don't like that, that view. It kind of distracts me a little bit. But now they're going to actually bring presenter view into teams. So if you are the presenter, you can now in control. You can now see the presenter view just like you would in PowerPoint in the teams meeting. So that's kind of cool. And if somebody comes in and takes control, they'll see the presenter view as well. I do use that a lot, especially doing webinars, things like that. Having that to see what the builds are, have all your notes there. You're kind of talking points. So it's really useful. So we'll see. I mean, the only thing I'm concerned about is, like, I like presenter view where I've got the two giant monitors to have it all within the team's workspace. I need to look at how it's used in the real estate. I'm a bit concerned about that. Yeah. I need to have enough pop out window. Yeah. Exactly. It needs to have a pop out. All right. And finally, immersive reader. Is anybody here? I mean, from a training perspective too, you know, does anybody here really get into the immersive reader at all? You know, they're using Word and Excel and stuff like that. Anybody here? I think it's more commonly used with email. Well, wait, it's immersive reader. That's different than the read aloud capability. Read aloud, you're thinking of. Immersive is word. Yeah. It's rid of all the bells and whistles and stuff that just lets you read things. Yeah. So you push for immersive reader in the education space and for accessibility reasons. You know, it's all that inclusivity and making sure people are, we did work on a project for K through 12 materials. And that was a big deal. Making sure everything was captioned and all of that for the immersive reader. Exactly. Exactly. So when Microsoft is doing immersive reader is now making note outlook teams and other apps. So it's not just, you know, pigeon hold the word. But what they're going to be doing is now they're going to be making it available for SharePoint pages and news posts. So now you're going to be able to use that immersive reader in this. I think it kind of what you said, it kind of goes back to, you know, diversity and inclusion and being able to, you know, accessibility, being able to, because what immersive reader says here is that, you know, uses techniques to improve reading and writing for people regardless of their age or ability. And that's kind of a 50,000 foot explanation. But it really just tries to, you know, like you said, make it easier to read context and to hear it and visualize it. So I think that's kind of cool. They're actually going to bring it into SharePoint for, they say pages and news posts. I love that Shari mentioned it about the immersive reader also like for accessibility concepts. The accessibility features in all of the office applications have been improved significantly in the last, I guess that's the last one. Especially with AI. Yeah, it's pretty cool. Yeah. AI has really taken a front and center with Microsoft. As we all know, if you tend to ignite, I don't know, maybe 30% was all around AI and everything AI and this AI and that AI and so on and so forth. So, you know, they really put a big push for that. I think that's cool. I think that's really, really cool stuff. I will say one last thing, topic Christian, and then we can move on. Does anybody else notice that in Microsoft Teams now they've taken away the ability, and I just noticed this this morning. I didn't see any announcement on it, but I was looking in my client. And if you click on the settings under your image and go to settings, they've taken away that option where it allows you to see the preview features. So there used to be a checkbox there that would say, you know, if you want to see the advanced features of the preview features, and then Teams restart was required. It's not there anymore. So I don't know how Microsoft is handling that whole preview thing with Teams anymore, or if it's just like you have to be part of Insider. It depends on the client. The last time that I checked that, if you're using the standard desktop client, the preview features checkbox isn't there. However, at the same time on the mobile, the web client, it was. Let me go take a quick look and see if it still is. I just found that interesting. It just went away because I was looking for the large gallery view. Because again, depending on what tenant I log into, I have different options. And I always have to check because I log into one and I don't have the large gallery. I only have the default. And if I log into another one, I have the large gallery option. It's crazy. I was just going to say, maybe you got kicked out of the Cool Kids Club. I had no doubt. Then what am I doing here? I was sending you a message, Mike. I just verified that, Mike. My desktop teams client does not show the preview feature checkbox. If you're connecting it up on the web, it does. The web client does. The desktop doesn't. And as far as the gallery and some of the views and things, I find that varies depending on who's actually running the meeting. Yeah. I'll go to one meeting and things aren't available. I'll go to another one. And suddenly they're there. I go to the third one. Some of what's there is still there. Some isn't. So I have no explanation for that at all. But it's desperately confusing. Yeah. And it's not just about meetings as well. If you look at conversations, the reply to feature inside a conversation works perfectly well in the mobile app. But I think everyone's team's desktop client, it's not there unless you're in a very, very early preview build. Hey, Sean, is that an app that you can add as a tab? It should be. Teams, tarot cards. What's going to happen with the environment today? I don't know. Let's go find out together. Yeah. Hey, Christian, there's another skill. I genuinely read tarot cards. So there you go. Is there anything that Neil can't do? That is the question. Play guitar very well, apparently. I can't do that very well. I've got a VR app. Well, good times. Hey, Walt. So as we move, thanks a lot for that, Mike, and for pulling those together. I know that I see that you left off the list that I did get a message center update about something to do with Yammer. But I didn't read that. That's just because you know me and Yammer. That's a love-hate relationship. No, it is. Maybe next week. Yeah, well, I get a pick and choose. So, you know, Yammer's just not at the top of my list. Well, as we go into the Q&A portion of the live stream here, it is time to share on screen our updated disclaimer. So we'll let that appear there. We have our disclaimer back. Expressed in this live stream are provided as is by the participants and who are, again, air quotes, experts on some Microsoft technologies, but do not claim to be experts in all Microsoft technologies and blah, blah, blah. Anyway, yeah, so it's great to have that back. I'll put your hair on fire. That's right. Well, with that, and I know that, and Neil, so you had provided really an answer to the homework two weeks ago about full fidelity migrations. Were you still doing some other footwork on that? Or is that closed out? It's kind of closed out. I think the documentation online, aka.ms slash spmt, really has everything I have to say. It's all there. Simon Badaj is the PM for that. And he's really on top of those tech writers for keeping that content really up to date. And it's pretty much everything I would have to say is there. In fact, no, if that's everything I would have to say is there. Excellent. Well, let's jump into the first one, kind of a broad question, but Jonathan asks, is Azure a good place to start learning cloud? Well, yeah, so. Yes. See, my son, who is an atmospheric sciences major would say no. No, no, no, no, no. Just on the context, right? Yeah, I suppose it'd be specific about which cloud to the question. All roads lead to cloud, right? Well, I get this question a lot because I mean, a lot of what I do is around Azure. I'm not an office MVP as you guys know. I do more work in Azure than I do anywhere else. And I get this question a lot about folks that come to me and want to learn about cloud. They'll leave the company with one or two statements. Either they'll say I want to learn about Azure or I want to learn about cloud. And I say there's always a distinction between the two because Azure is you're learning about Microsoft specific Azure. It doesn't. Whatever Microsoft specific Azure 90% of that doesn't apply to AWS. OK, and it doesn't apply to Google Cloud. And the reason what I mean by that is that if you have one OK from a terminal, just from a terminology standpoint, you're not going to know what's going on in the other one. And that's because they do not match at all. And none of the three share common terminology between them. They have the same, you know, maybe back in fabric, the same back in, you know, services that are provided. But Route 53 is not an Azure term. OK, DNS. DNS should be the term, but AWS uses Route 53. So if you want to learn about cloud, I think I personally think that Azure cloud is the easiest to learn. And that's just because of the fact that it's uses basic concepts of cloud. All right, it touches plain terminology, plain English things around that are used in the cloud. But you have to get a fundamental. I don't know what the what the baseline is they're going off of because they may not even know what a real cloud is. Is it actually, you know, public cloud, private cloud, hybrid cloud is a whole bunch of different areas that you can get into. So in terms of, yeah, we need more information of what they're trying to what they want to learn. But if they want to start out, in my opinion, I think Azure is the easiest cloud to learn. And just from someone who has never touched the cloud before. Do you generally? Go ahead, Neil. I would add to that, Mike. I said, you know, one of the things that's that's critical and this is with my Microsoft. I agree. Azure is is easy to work with. I also work with AWS, right? So as I work for Microsoft Azure product group, but at the same time, I work with many, many customers that are not just single cloud, right? They're multi-cloud platforms and it makes great business sense to be multi-cloud because if there's a problem in Azure, you can fail over to AWS. If there's a problem in AWS, you can fail over to Azure. So that is a very, it's a very robust business model to operate in both. So, you know, is Azure a good place to start? Yes, it is. But I wouldn't neglect learning the others. Like you say, Route 53, I built when I, the last in-person Ignite event, I built the workshop, all the VMs for the workshop. I deployed something like 6,000 servers across Azure. But did I use Azure DNS? No, I didn't. Why? Because Azure DNS is actually harder to work with than Route 53. It is. So I use Route 53 for all of the DNS, for all of the students in the room, because it was easy to work with in PowerShell. So learning, learning multi-cloud, if you want to be relevant, if you want to be an attractive person to employ, go down the path of learning multi-cloud. I totally agree with you. 150%. I will make one note that Neil never mentioned Google Cloud once in that statement. I did say multi-cloud. It's right at the beginning. So by, I said multi. So inherently I'm including that. I'm just giving you. No. No. Hey, all clouds have their value. And I don't sit with which one. That's right. That's right. Although all of you are really important stuff in Azure. Great. Great. Slide that in the end. That's right. Keep the job up. That's right. Well, there you go. All right. Here's my boss. What can I say? Well, question number two. Tom says, hi, all a friend has asked. Okay, a friend has asked this question. If a Teams meeting wasn't recorded at the time, has the video gone or is it stored somewhere? My thought is if it's not recorded, then it's gone at the end. Just wanted to check with the experts. There is no video. It's not recorded. There is no video. It's not gone. It's never started. It's called streaming. It's done. Finished. End of question. Teams is not a surveillance tool. They're not recording 24 seven. If you don't start the recording. It could be. It could be. It will not go there, Mike. Okay, folks, before you jump to the next question, I know I didn't mention I have to leave. So I'm going to drop out now before we get engaged on the next question. Thank you very much. I'm sorry. I've got to go early. No worries. Thanks so much, Neil. Thanks, Neil. You look awesome. Thanks for the luck of the Irish today. Yeah, very well. So yeah, I would have thought that, that Neil would have been much more pro Microsoft in the statements given his outfit. I don't think you can. I don't think you can be anymore because it's the cloud is becoming a commodity. It really is. You think most partner solutions. There are very few partners again that are that are, you know, one one cloud. Oh, very few. Right. And when we go in and architect something from a solution standpoint, even though I work on the Microsoft solutions team. We will whatever the whatever will make it for the customer. Like Neil said, if route 53 is going to handle the DNS better than Azure's DNS, we're going to we're going to architect that. You know, and storage as well as three can help perform Azure storage at some points doing certain things. It all it all depends. Yeah. Take us back into teams mode here so I can be up on the screen too. Yay. All right. So yeah, so Tom. Yeah. If you don't hit the record, it's not saved. It's gone. Sorry, dude. Sorry. All right. Question number three. Helen. Hi. What's the best way of having a space in a SharePoint communication site where users can upload videos and watch other users videos? Should I use stream for that? Or can I just use a library? My answer always that is what features are they looking for? Do they need? Does somebody just need to watch the video? Do they want the translation? What's it called when they? It types out the words. The word. Yeah. The transcription. That one. The other two words. Yeah. Do they need all of that, you know, and do they need like statistics as to who watched it and have people comment? It just depends on what tool they're looking for. Lots of ways to skin a cat. Yeah. So yes, yes, and yes, but what do you need? I mean, I would default. Personally, I would default to stream for that capability for the reasons you just said. I mean, if you because you want it to be a searchable asset. So the fact that you upload it and don't have to do any extra steps and it will go in and build the transcription and then it's searchable. You know, and it's just a great resource for that. And the other viewing capabilities you're not having to go through, you know, any other additional processing. So it's it's it's the default. Video consumption location. If it's stored in stream, it can be displayed or shared across any site or any application. Whereas if it's stored in SharePoint, you're limited to that particular site that you're storing it in. Well, and if it's one drive, it's in that person's one drive. So if they leave the company and the asset, so I actually did a really cool project where we took the transcription, that T word and pulled it out and translated it and then put it back in and that was the subtitles. So it created the subtitles in different languages. It was kind of cool. So you can't do that one driver SharePoint, unfortunately. Yeah. This is before we even talk about media services and streaming and adaptive bit rates and yep. Yep. Streams a multimedia tool. SharePoint can do multimedia, but stream is designed for it. Well, and I think a lot of people don't realize that you can store things in something like stream and still display them in SharePoint or teams. I think a lot of people think you have to store them in SharePoint to display them in SharePoint and that's not the case anymore. Yeah, so hence the reason I'm doing a webinar called spoiler alert. Nothing actually lives in teams. Yeah. Are people genuinely surprised by that? Yes, you'd be amazed. I get that question all the time. What lives in teams? I'm like nothing. Nothing lives in teams. It's a facade. Yeah. I use the analogy that you've got you've got tools spread out over your house, right? You're working on a project in your house. You can go over and get that tool and bring it back. You can go over here and get that tool and bring it back. You can go over there and get that tool and bring it back. Or you can put them all in the darn toolbox and have them put in there, right? That's what teams is. It brings all the tools into one place instead of having to go all over the place looking for the right tool. Well, that's also when teams launched and something that I still explain to they say, well, do we need to go out and buy specifically tools for backup and recovery and things for teams? Well, it's not for teams. If you have those tools for SharePoint and Exchange, that's where that content lives. And there's going to be adjustments. There's new features and things coming out and how stream is handled and kind of all those kinds of things. But again, the assets, documents and files in SharePoint, conversations and meetings are in exchange. All right. I have to jump. Thanks, guys. Take care, Sherry. I put my two cents on the chat if you need them. Oh, OK. All right, right. Grab links later. Thanks a lot. Have a great day. Sridie says, hi, can anyone suggest how to migrate PST files to Office 365 to exchange online without any migration tools? Without the migration tools? Well, drag and drop. File, open an export import export import from another program of file public data file. There you have it. PST file is still a PST file. You just have to use the client app. Yeah, that's just what I just got through doing. From within Outlook, open an export file, open an export import export open another import from another program of file Outlook data file. Bingo, you're done. Sherry's provided a link for that too. No, wait down. Of course, then you have to wait for the file to actually import. It's been filed. It might take you there too. But nevertheless, the other thing that you can do with that is open an export. Open Outlook data file, which simply opens the PST file and then you can add your leisure drag and drop stuff from the PST into your Office 365 mailbox. Either way, it works. One's a little slower than the other. The slower method, however, gives you the granularity to move what you want and not move what you don't want. I had thought that there was a. Maybe it was a third party tool that allowed you to actually specify a PST file and your exchange online account, and it would automatically import the entire PST into it. That sort of could be qualified as a migration tool, which he didn't want to use. Yeah, OK, well, I guess yeah, but I look at what's out of the box differently than then like going have to to apply a third party or external tool. But and I guess that or I believe exchange online has got tools to do that with. I think it's a PowerShell. Actually, I think they have a PowerShell that'll ask you to do that. I look it up. I mean, I look at a question like that is somebody saying, look, I'm not authorized to go and add a tool into the system or to acquire something. So I almost interpret that as what can I do with what I already have out of the box, but yeah. So you've got multiple options. People once again, it's kind of like the last question people forget about the fact is they kind of have cloud and Office 365 in their mind is kind of this foreign concept and what they need to remember is that a PST file is still a PST file, right? And so you can export a PST file and open PST file in your client application. And what's really nice is because the client application data syncs with the cloud data, it's all the same thing. And I think people kind of get hung up on the, well, how do I get it to the cloud? As opposed to understanding how kind of the dynamics work behind the scenes. I've got a t-shirt that says the cloud is just someone else's computer. There's a joke about that. Be like, you know, my private cloud, it's like you mean your external drive. Yeah, that's right. See a float in there. So I did post a link to Christian that actually Microsoft is talking about being able to do that import using network capabilities. So Microsoft has come out with a way to do it natively. If you're doing a lot of PST files, that gets a little trickier than just a single PST file as well. Well, and the reason why I say that is because this PowerShell command is now available, which I didn't. Maybe I missed it, but let me paste this in the chat. I didn't realize this is available, but there actually is a paste, Mike. There actually is a new mailbox import request command, commandlet in PowerShell. Nice. It'll do that. So for anybody that's watching in the follow up blog post, which will include a link to the video and everything will. I'll have all the questions that we discuss as well as all the links that we share over if you don't catch them in the meeting chat on the right side. All right, we're ready for question number five. Nobody's ready. Emotionally, are we ready? Well, if you can pronounce that first name, we're ready. Imran. Is it Imran? I'm Ron. Imran. OK. So I have run into a big problem. I'm using the SharePoint list as my data source with attachments inside the items. I came to know that my list has reached the 250 meg size limit due to all attachments. Any alternative solutions for attachments for SharePoint items through PowerApps using Document Library, which have a link in the SharePoint list items. Yo, SharePoint people. Well, I mean, there's a couple different questions going on in there. It's. I mean, if he's if he's doing attachments in the list, usually the way I get around that is to use a Document Library and reference the item in the list as opposed to having the attachment actually in the list item. I don't know if that's us if there's a size limitation specifically around PowerApps, but definitely one of the big workarounds is to use a Document Library and reference the item in the list as opposed to having attachments. Hello, Sean's face. There's so much going on in this statement. I wanted a screenshot of just Sean's face. I just don't know what to say. It's not rocket science, Sean. It's only SharePoint. Yeah, it's not rocket science. It's just SharePoint. I was watching I was watching Harry Potter over the weekend and there's one of my favorite quotes that that Professor Snape uses as well. I can. It's the. Now now just my mind the. Oh no, I can't it's where he's talking about art versus science. He's like the the inexact science and exact art of potions, something like that. It was it's kind of the same thing. It's a it's as much art as it is now going to find the quote. Anything Sean or we just moving on. OK, here it is. It says he says there will be no foolish wand waving or silly incantations in this class as such. I don't expect many of you to appreciate the subtle science and exact art that is potion making. That's what it is. It's the subtle science and exact art of SharePoint maintenance. So true. Yes. That would have been so much better had I had the ability to call science. I like the science science. Thomas Dolby. Yes. No, I'm not going to show I'm taking a pass on this one so we can just move on. OK, all right. Let's see. Number 6 Volton says how can I fix my mic input to not accepting with external sound interface on sound setting? So it's a teams question. Where it's not. Picking up his second microphone input. That's how I'm interpreting if you can't take a flash and control panel sounds. I don't think you can. It's a device problem problem. Yeah, yeah, well, I talked about this in previous sessions where just because it works with Windows does not mean it'll work with teams. Well, because it works one day doesn't mean it'll work the next day because sometimes teams changes its mind. It does. It does. And we've had this conversation where my camera will work before this show in a zoom meeting but fire up teams was like. No camera, sorry. I believe and don't quote me on this, but somebody was I was on a call and was really impressed with their brand new surface headphones. Which apparently we're having problems working with teams. Yeah. That happens. Yeah. They had problems with the surface headphones working with the surface if you remember when the first one was on. Yeah. Well, as we often say, you know the the era of plug and play is dead. Yeah, plug and pray. I would definitely say there are multiple places that tell you which devices are the most friendly with teams. Maybe take a look at that and reconsider what mic you're using. Sound settings, Bluetooth settings. I thought you were going to say that for a second. Reconsider the choices you're making in your life. I find mics and cameras to try to find the one that gives me the best everything and is the friendliest. So I mean, I think that's a it's a little bit more about just, you know, maybe picking a different mic. Well, like everything you it's exciting to go get the latest greatest technology, but you need to be aware of what's supported by the primary applications you're using. So I tell people I like to be on the cutting edge. I don't like to be on the bleeding edge. Yeah. Yeah. True. So I've used that and just a little hint here. I've used an app called your trumpet. Has anybody heard of your trumpet? Oh, I've got that here. You bet you could piece of software. It is and you can actually download it from the Microsoft Store, but it actually shows you all of your inputs and it'll show you levels and everything about your inputs as they're being used. So that's it's kind of cool. You'll be able to actually see if the, you know, the different apps that are using your inputs and stuff like that. It is. It brings to mind like Monty Python skit. That's an awesome product. Yes. I've got the link to it here. I'll paste that in there. Include that. That's great. Yeah, that's cool. All right. Question seven. Hart asks anyone know how to email a team? So that pretty straightforward. 365 team. You mean a team and teams? Correct. A group. You can email the group. Oh, hang on. Clarification. Teams are a group because a team is really you know, every team you create you have to isn't there a box that says like you want to create an email or allow emails to this team or something? Yeah, there's a little default that automatically subscribes any new members to receive the email. But they individually have the right to manage their own settings in terms of not getting those notifications. So you can default it where they get it or you can default it where they don't, but they always have the right to add it or delete it afterwards. So that gets to be a really tricky question because it depends on how the default settings were set at the beginning and it depends on if your users in the group have changed their settings. Dang users. You know, the policy comes in because you can change that in policy globally. You know, to have enforced the policy where that everyone has to receive like email, you know, from an administrator. Things like that. But there is a quick way to go in whether it's been enabled or not and whether it's available on the channel that you're talking and trying to reach is to go into the channel on the ellipses on the right side. You'll click on the three dots and get the email address and copy that over and then send your email to that. That's actually, it's something that I do often and I know that there is there are feature requests that are in place to put it within the UI to make it easier to share content from Outlook like there will be an email conversation and I'll get an email and be like, why is this happening outside of the discussion that we're having over in Teams? And so I will email that thread over to Teams and people want the ability to do that either way and you start to see a lot of messages now where Teams conversations pushed over to email to get out to a broader audience and it redirects them back to that team as well. So depending on where you want to have the conversation but I will use it often to redirect misplaced discussion threads in email back to Teams where everybody can see it. Well and on this case they're talking about creating a calendar event. That's part of the question. Right. Yeah so I'll read that. It says also that's the hint for me of the second question. So heart you're getting the double play here. Sharper's attack is always Christian. Thank you Mike. That praise warms my heart. Also I'm having an issue creating a calendar event for the team and having the team invite without adding the members individually. So Sharon you were saying. That goes back to the group calendar which has a couple different ways that people can get updates but essentially if they're using the group calendar and they are subscribed to receive updates via the group then they should be getting updates anything you add to the calendar but if they have chosen to unsubscribe themselves from that or to stop following that group they will not get notifications for that. But one of the things it does say is without adding the members individually so another thing you can do to get around that is if they have unsubscribed themselves you can actually add them to that event individually and then they will get the out of the box individual notifications as well. You can't escape those notifications. They will find you. They're like the IRS. And this is actually a really good time to talk about a new feature that I don't necessarily know that a lot of people know about but there's the channel calendar. So for anybody who doesn't know about the channel calendar if you go into teams and go into apps and type in channel calendar you can actually add a calendar for any team in any channel and it will display the group calendar associated with that team which is it's brand new it's super cool and it does exact so if you want your team to know about what's on the group calendar and you don't want to put it on a SharePoint page and then add the link to the tab you can use the new channel calendar feature pick which team you want to display it in and your whole team can see what's on the calendar at a glance. Woohoo! We'll have to... I'll go look for a link to include. I'll see if I can grab you one. Thank you. All right, question number eight this from Jeff says greetings all I have a current 365 family subscription every time I start Excel PowerPoint or Word there is a pop-up screen asking for my email address sign on. How do I disable this pop-up across all of the components please? I don't think that's possible actually because it's driven by the subscription type because if you I know that in office 2019 the local copy it only it allows you to continue on without logging in it'll prompt you once but I've noticed that it doesn't prompt after that but when I installed my office 365 home use it prompts all the time I mean I can click through it but it prompts continuously and I think that's a subscription model I think that and maybe I'm wrong on this but I think a subscription model keeps prompting you because it not only is it wanting you to log in to do the sharing features but it also logs in for licensing purposes yeah because it is a subscription feature there are different installs as well so it's depending on the install on any of these uh go to check and see what your account information looks like and that would be by going to file account or office account if you're in more outlook and check and see who it says this actually belongs to you you can add accounts to to it and that may get you out of that problem because when I really don't have to do that if I watch Excel it just launches well when I'm in my work laptop which is 100% dedicated to those accounts and I log into that I don't have those login issues on my primary workstation which I use for all the community for my former company you know email and I've got those different profiles and I'm switching between it it's exactly that scenario where I run into that because I might be logged in with different profiles and different tools and different systems and so it's doing that check I mean I almost look at that as kind of like an MFA you know activity anyway I'm used to that yeah especially I'm going I was just going to say another thing that a lot of people don't realize is in windows 10 you can have multiple user accounts logged in at the same time which credentials you for those things one of the things I always recommend is if you go to your windows 10 search bar and just taking users you can go to all of your user accounts and there's actually two or three different places so click on all the links on the left hand side and check and see which logins are logged into that particular device and make sure that you want them to be logged in because if not it could actually be creating a scenario where the tool or the product is trying to figure out which account am I using for this and that kind of helps to clean it up a little bit and I would just say that without more context around the question right I don't I don't know why why this person doesn't want to log in and then once they log in that won't bother you anymore right but you have a subscription a family Microsoft 365 family is a subscription based model just like home and business just like you know an E3 and E5 whatever you have to log in in order for you know what we used to call KMS on premises out in the cloud now to actually say okay yeah you're valid for a license go ahead you can continue using this you have to log in at some point I mean it used to be like 30 days and then you get that what degraded functionality or something like that if you didn't log in and renew that license if you're running a standalone version of office then no you don't have to log in but I don't know why you wouldn't I don't I don't I guess I need more information around why the concern is around this what the concern is yeah additional information that we will never receive yeah I mean they want to stay logged in feature is what they want well not only that maybe they maybe they only want that one person right to be logged in and that one ID and not you know they don't have the whole family where like me I have a home and home and business one and I have you can use up to six now used to be five now it's up to six and all of my you know my two kids and my wife they all log in with their their own accounts maybe this person doesn't have that they just have that one account and that's all they want to use I don't know yeah yes but then those other people are missing out on all the benefits of that account like one drive storage and you know that other stuff so that's the answer though as Mike says go and buy multiple licenses everyone should have five to seven licenses in your household from your two year old through your great grandmother make great stocking stuff first you only have to buy one license and you get to use it up six times Sean will also talk to you about the need for every home to have a NAS storage device and how will walk us through the install of your exchange on-prem so all of it necessary absolutely so oh and Sharon's team can help you build automated automated workflows across all of that so so what's your value as pie no I just will sit and watch and be entertained by that you need a value add no I don't all right let's move on question number nine Diane says I hope this makes sense Diane we hope so too so thank you do any of you know if the person who established the teams chat closes it or deletes it will all messages disappear on my end or is it like email and I keep what has been sent regardless of the owner changing the status of their own chat so what happens with with a chat message I don't know I still got chat this week so I'm happy it's the simple things yeah no it if the chat gets closed by the person who started the chat in the first place then the chat is gone it ain't there no more that's kind of what I was thinking too I think it's whoever creates it creates it inside of their exchange account I do also know when you share files inside of a chat it's shared out of your one drive so it depends on who shares the file as to whether they keep it or you know because it's their file that they're sharing but that's my understanding was that the chat lives in the creators of exchange ownership assigned to creation time so that doesn't get and that also goes for meetings as well so whoever creates the meeting actually owns the chat for that meeting so that's an interesting point you bring up is the case then that when you're in a teams meeting and I post a file to the teams meeting or the team chat and it doesn't go it doesn't go into the teams share point one drive now it stays in your one drive and it's shared with whoever you want to share it with if you share it if you share it personally so if you add attachment in teams it's going to add that file to your one drive and then it's going to share it to any of the participants I've tested that out multiple times and it's always worked that way now if you were to add a file to share point and then share the link to it that's different but if you simply click add attachment or upload file or whatever it's going to add it to your one drive and then share it to anybody else okay that makes sense because I've been in teams well you guys know being in teams with Microsoft folks and some of those file listings will get very long but the Microsoft folks aren't there anymore and but the file still exists so they must do it internally in Microsoft share point site like you said and do it that way that makes sense yeah you have to think through kind of what you're trying to accomplish and whether or not you're just simply sharing it with other people or whether you want to make it available to the group at large as to where you store it and how you share it which it does get confusing just as a tip inside of teams you can always go to the files tab on the left and if you look at one drive if you go into one drive you can actually see the files that have been shared with you and you can see the files that you have shared inside of one drive and it'll show it'll tell you which ones you're sharing out and which ones have been shared with you in the OneDrive app in the cloud yeah it makes sense so just a clarification on the chat conversation if you're a member of the chat you're part of that conversation you have the ability to see the conversation that you participated in if you're removed from a channel conversation then of course that lives on but you only see what you had access to and if you rejoin you will miss you will not see all the chat that happened while you were not within that space but similarly with a chat so there is a like there is your portion of that if you are a teams user so there's that cloud exchange I know Microsoft has talked about for a while of creating for if there's a non-prem user with the hybrid connector and they're in participating in that chat but there's I guess the point is that the you will have your portion the conversation you participated will remain within your profile attached to your profile you just won't see the rest of that so you can go and audit that and get access to that that's good to know as long as you don't clear that out as long as your administrative settings don't prohibit chat in some way or whitelist chat in some way as well so there is an overriding piece to that because we have clients where we've had to turn chat off for certain reasons so as long as your administrator has enabled you to use chat and as long as your administrator has enabled you to use chat with that other place then you should also be fine that's cool so you think about that your auditing capability to go in and see everything there's a lot of I remember a lot of questions that people had concerns about what your IT organization could go in there and see within channel messages that conversation versus chat which is whether it's a group chat or one to one chat that's happening only the people that are participants in that chat can see that so that's actually another really good point to bring up about a lot in training is that if you have a one on one chat that's considered a private chat if you add an additional person it then switches from a private chat to a group chat and you don't have any choice to share that information but if you have more than two people it's considered a group chat from the beginning if you add an additional person you can choose whether or not they can see the history, how much of the history but that's only available in group chats which is something that is considered three or more people that have a private chat and you don't get that option right yep which is a cool feature mm-hmm alright question number 10 Ron asks my desktop outlook program has a rule that if there's something special in the subject line it goes to a special folder even though it is going to the same email that prevents me from seeing it on my email so I can see it on my iPhone I'm guessing what's happening I read this earlier I'm guessing what's happening is that they have a rule to put it in a folder and they just don't have the folders exposed in their iPhone mail that's a pretty easy fix you just click the little back arrow at the top and it will take you to all the accounts and you expand the account to see the folders and then you say show me this folder because it only shows the inbox by default in the iPhone mail I kind of learned early on that's my guess yeah I would agree with that 100% that's basically the same way on Android works you don't see the special folders and yes you go look for the special folders and then once you find them you sync them and once you've done that it's all there well that's actually a good point too because in the mail settings you have to determine how long back you want to sync the folder detail and so if you haven't set that up it won't be there either yeah or if you did that as you suggest that message is a month old and you've got your sync stopping at two weeks you won't see it yeah it's actually a feature something that I do in switching and I was aware of that and we'll look at the all up all email across the multiple accounts but I will during the day especially if I'm at an event or something I'll have it focus just on the work email so I'm not bothered by personal email a gmail account some other outlook based account I'm only seeing those things which I really need to prioritize so if it's something that is important that you're watching then go and change your view so that's just that folder and also be forewarned that if you go into those sync settings and you sync everything for all time that your backup subscription plan will increase in price and your phone may run out of memory or that yeah alright question number 11 Malco says hello anyone here knows how to create a virtual Microsoft phone extension MS phone extension which can be logged into a Microsoft teams phone you did this on purpose course I did nope and it's all Sean's answer Sean what do you think telephony you know I just like I don't even know what that is Microsoft phone extension and I know what a phone extension is but it's like yes yes you can we actually have a client who uses teams phones who has teams devices and we've got calling set up for them and we've got their extensions going to their teams phones and overall there's been a few things we've been working through because it's fairly new but overall it's been working well and they like it so yeah it's just part of the voice package in teams so this is a question where I don't know I would go up to the browser and do a search I have to believe that Microsoft has documentation on creating extensions for teams there is an entire section on docs around Microsoft teams administration in the voice area and it walks you through the bulk of this and once you've read that and feel good at it you add that to your knowledge set and go get your MS 700 you know the other thing too is that and here's just kind of a general statement around look there are no bad questions no the only bad questions just bad people yes just bad people correct um no but you know there are I would say that a lot of the questions which we receive would be difficult just to go and do a search and find the right answers there's conflicting information things that are out there and I like to think that we're providing some actual value here no no in theory in fact it's so funny because many many years ago um there was somebody who asked me a question and I kind of chuckled and I answered the question and then I was talking to my husband and I was like why didn't they just search for that and he looked at me and he said they don't know what to search for and I was like that really like hit me hard because he was like you can tell them to the words to search for they don't even know what they're looking for and so I think if if nothing else if we can provide people with the context of here's some things to think about and here's some things to search for to get you to that next level I think that provides more value than we really realize well that's the other thing I know that we always kind of whine and complain that we don't have the ability to ask other follow-up questions Mike yes but the reality is that there could be people that are you know we might have a question and as we try to go through and say look there's a bunch of potential ways that this problem could you know come into play and we're there for if we have five different ways of solving the problem depending on the context there's five at least five people out there that have their problem solved in theory because if one person is asking the rest are thinking it from the literally dozens of people who will see this this video it's also worth mentioning that the internet with its longevity people don't pay attention to dates they're not trained to look at dates something's published and if you you know find an article that's six years old that has a good chance of not being relevant anymore oh my gosh all day whenever I search for anything I now use the tools feature and I limit it to like the last month or last 12 months because you're so right because I'm so tired of looking for something and then having the answer pop up especially when it's your own blog five years ago that answers that very question you're like but that doesn't work like that but my favorite from that scenario not like this didn't just happen is somebody commenting on articles like saying that it's like well that didn't work for me I'm like that article was from 2016 it's the wrong product it doesn't do it there the born on date is over yes the answer for SharePoint 2010 is not the same answer as SharePoint online guys like it's two different products there's a no the my other favorite though is that I keep seeing like retweets for like make sure that you check out my webinar happening tomorrow from a year ago yeah somebody somebody just liked a tweet about a webinar this just happened over the weekend from 2018 somebody needs update their hood sweet settings yeah so and I just want to add to that is that I run into this on a daily basis with my family is they will come to me because they think that I'm a search God and I have the ability to find answers because I just plain and simple I just tell them number one you have to know what you're looking for and the right words to use because everything on the Internet is everything in search is built off of keywords believe it or not search is all about keywords using a lot of common terms will get you nowhere very fast dates are another thing but also don't be like my family and always select the first result you get as the answer okay but Mike it's at the top yeah and it has a little word in front of it and it says add ad promoted it's not right we call it google food problem I just I mean I deal with that I mean literally on a daily basis because they'll come down and they'll be like well I need to find this out but I don't know how to search for it dad search for it for me and then I'll bring it up and I'll be like well they'll be like oh there it is I go no no yeah okay this one might be it presentation called how did you find that yeah I talk about how search works and you know how you can get more out of search just because of that exact thing yep should you get a plug plug so since we're giving a disclaimer to search capabilities I'll just once again I'll flash on the screen here the disclaimer for the show here again just to put it out there I think it's just you know part of our as you just pop up you should have it on a timer it's just a show yeah just bait in our opinions are our third that goes across the problem every time Shawn talks just at the beginning of it hold hold pause for the Shawn disclaimer the bloomberg streamer uh alright alright question 12 Davidson asks hi is there a way to call the information from two related tables in a dataverse on the power apps canvas I'm out I've never used dataverse neither have I dataverse this is a fancy term for cds yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah so we do it too two data sources yeah you can you can use two tables in a power app in a canvas app but that's a much bigger loaded question and I would highly recommend that you do the learn course on dataverse and power apps just to help you understand how that all works I think that's saying yes and then saying go and learn about this get some skill yourself up is a great response or pay a really smart consultant like Sharon weaver to help you out absolutely I have power apps people on my team that could definitely help you although so Sharon's only the CEO of Smarter Consulting I recently started working with smartest consulting and they're they're slightly better so just like my dog her that's one of those that's one of those jokes that we always do to kind of you know I think this is great well that's that's that's awesome that you think that dad I think this other thing is even greater you know so we do that it's the passive aggressive together all right questions 13 Tracy says someone tell me how to create an alert on a shared document in teams after there's been an update to it yeah going to SharePoint and click alert me going to SharePoint that's the key I think you're not going to do it from teams no no absolutely in teams at the top of any library where it says files there's a little button that says open in SharePoint click open in SharePoint it will take you to exactly the right place click on the bar there's a little dot dot dot if you don't see it click on alert me fill out the fields you're good to go alert me's are actually the reason I got into SharePoint 15 plus years ago because I thought they were the coolest feature ever and I still do I still think alert me's are probably one of the best kind of unsung heroes of SharePoint yep that is a great it's one of the stealth or stocking features if you want to see what's happening around content yeah it used to be like that so I know it's shameful to say this but the alerting feature as well as the back in the Skype days remember this we've all done it where you get alerted when somebody comes online via Skype you can do that desktop apps yeah and they added that right it was missing initially and people asked about that so alert when people come online it's really great when you're when you're a project manager and you're trying to drive people to complete certain documents assets or activities these are great tools people but I would refer to them as the stocking apps to your parole officer I was hilarious my son would be like he's like how do you I just logged in oh I know yeah and I I'd message him like it's like I know that you see this like I see you online yeah and he would go to switch his status to busy and I'm like yeah well played that's the focus time is amazing because it automatically marks you do not disturb if you don't know that which has been really great for me because I think sometimes you just need like a few minutes to like do your own thing and not how people bother you and so I love it that it just automatically puts me on do not disturb like a couple hours a week yeah all right before you move on Christian I have to I have to question the list and the reason why I have to do that is because I'm looking at question number 16 I now I have I know all transparency I have not read these questions ahead of time but why would not this question which he says needed urgently for Monday at 9am go to the top of the list that's right because it was already after 9am so so sorry Simon it's Christian's fault it's he could be in Hawaii you just didn't think of that it's part of he's out in Alaska or Hawaii so it's still plenty of time it's true it's true so yeah so yeah so there is a way to put money in my Patreon account to have items move up on the list just kidding that great observation and that let me tell you it initially was up at the top of the list and you get some sense as I build the list and move questions around and I ignored that part sorry so we're not going to answer that question yet let's move on with question number 14 Jock says I deleted my Azure resources but I'm getting billed for a backup and I cannot delete the resource or the pay as you go subscription I do not want to get billed anymore where do I go from here please assist so if he actually deleted the resource all of his resources so he goes into all resources in the left hand pane in the Azure portal and he sees no resources listed on the right hand side okay there is no backup okay there's no unless he had a managed service that created some kind of a backup somewhere but it would be listed as a resource so the first place I would take this is a support ticket because there's no way for you to be getting billed for a resource that you cannot see inside of the portal is there like is there like a soft delete is there a way to like a 30 day hold that you'd still be billed for so you delete something yes but there is covers or not there are things that you can that can be deleted that kind of like hang out there so one example is that is what they call a managed app sometimes a managed app contains like multiple components alright it's a managed application and there may be a database behind it and a load balancer and couple of VMs and you know all these different resources well sometimes you can delete all the components but the app itself never goes away it just kind of they call it an orphan it just sits there okay now you could still be billed for that managed app there's no resources using the app but you still get billed for that object that still exists in an orphan state so you need to call you need to open a ticket with support what they'll do is they'll actually go into your subscription and find out what the application of that or why I it's hard for me to understand why they're getting billed on something called a backup I don't I don't know where they're getting that term from but that's that would be my suggestion is let's support do the work for you on this one yep I was thinking the exact same thing yeah I found that Azure support was pretty reasonable early on when I moved parts of my environment over there and went in and said you know I don't know what this is I don't you know this is how I'm actually using it and they made some suggestions on switching my configuration around and then refunded part of what I was charged the previous month for that so I mean they saw my usage levels low was new on there trying to figure stuff out and yeah so yeah definitely I'll have that conversation with them they're pretty good with that and not only the second part of that is when they talked about can't delete the subscription Microsoft won't allow you to delete a subscription that has resources in it unless you I mean you confirm it but if you do that it just goes into a suspended state it's not actually deleted because there are resources that are still active and you can always reactivate that subscription for a period of time like 30 day recycle bin so you can let a subscription pause or suspend as they call it but you can't delete it alright yeah and this is also I'm just going to plug this is a really good reason to have a Microsoft partner we're getting to the point that a lot of small and medium sized businesses can go spin up their own licensing they can spin up their own Azure they can do what they want to do with things and then sometimes I think they get stuck or if they have questions or they need to escalate and Microsoft partners can assist with a lot of those types of things sometimes whether they answer questions or tell you it's the right time to open a ticket or open that ticket on your behalf and help you with it I think that that can be really handy sometimes to have somebody in your court so good point thank you for that question 15 we're so close to helping Simon with this question question 15 it'd be so funny if we ran out of time after this question Kathleen asks we're trying to find ways to provide value for the community so when we can't we'll go down burning in a big way Kathleen asks I want to assign tasks in a private channel but this is not supported I support you Kathleen what is the easiest way to assign one-off tasks for a private channel can Trello or Asana do one-off tasks or are they specifically for projects you make some good ones today Christian yeah well so this well the reason I'm aware of this so done some research around private channels but there's limitations of course around private channels and you know as it relates to the rest of the group that it's a part of but that's one of the great scenarios of the lists and actually going creating kind of the task lists in the list up so you can have the list up and create a list within a private channel and then assign tasks that way so that's one real simple solution that's available out of the box you don't have to go to a third party solution having said that if you have some other third party task management software that your company uses you can always add that in as a tab and have that as a resource as well but you don't have to go outside for that capability you also can create a plan a single plan that has limited you can put it for that group and then you can actually publish it into that channel too yep and then you can have it in multiple ways okay well let's see do we have time I don't know six minutes is that really okay Simon question number 16 Simon says I'm looking for see what I did there Sean I'm looking for some assistance I'm on windows 10 I installed teams but it won't let me log in getting an error code I've uninstalled and reinstalled and cleared the cache my kids have been using teams via school platform need urgently for Monday at 9am again I imagine Simon is in Hawaii so plenty of time use the browser app use the online app use the mobile app quit trying to install the client that would certainly get the job done quickly yeah better with the team with a client based app just use the browser based app and be done with it do they have distinct accounts on the machine all sorts of I mean there's all sorts of questions yeah that's back to that one we talked about earlier where I would go to your search bar look at users check to see who's logged into your machine see if it's conflicting but if I needed something urgently I might just simply go to the browser app or use the mobile app in worst case scenarios also if you need something urgently probably not a Hail Mary question asked on a Facebook community page another good reason to have a Microsoft partner yes to go to for those questions that have an SLA in place correct yeah if you use that browser use an incognito or in private window as well make sure nothing's interfering with you yeah all right question 17 Zeke asked does Office 365 have email notifications for users whose passwords will be expiring yes yes okay question number 18 yes okay yeah you want to expand on that one no no expansion necessary I think it also just happens right like if it's inspiring you get a notification it says I think it's like a countdown or something and I don't know what to count down in but yes well you get like you get you've got 10 days you've got nine days you've got eight or Mike keep it simpler ten nine eight seven that's a countdown just of course to receive those you need a valid email address correct yes presumably the one you're using to log in but you know I don't know all right this probably our last question here number 18 ash asks hi guys is it possible to merge two calendars to the standard teams calendar no not out of there you go well there I'm ready for it to happen but no it only displays your own personal outlook count it's whatever you have on your outlook calendars but displays on the default calendar here's a great offer opportunity for a budding developer yeah there's there's a lot of there's some new apps that are coming out that are going to try to you know solve this problem I'm excited to see where this is going to go because I think there's a lot of great use cases to see multiple calendars just like you do an outlook where you have your overlapped calendars in teams but this question has been out there for a long time you know back in the SharePoint 2010 days in fact I seem to recall in a chapter that I wrote for a book with Jennifer Mason on solutions where we addressed this in SharePoint but a merged calendar view and building that out and you know it remains an issue where why Microsoft why can we not create a view that merges multiple calendars and publish as the default you know we need to have flexibility with calendar views inside of teams as the default view there's a lot of opportunity there and I do know there's some things that are coming that like third-party stuff that I've seen that are starting to kind of deal with that issue but yep well we are out of time we had four other questions in the list so we're down to the line and only two of the four are urgently the answer today so we'll address them next week but thank you everybody for participating for those that are watching we'll be back the same time 8am pacific next week every Monday we'll be back and do this again if you have some questions reach out to us through social communication this of course the recording will be up on YouTube and the club channel and I'll also add a blog post out I still owe the post from last week but we'll have a link list I've been busy been doing some work stuff you know but I'm just about caught up and we'll have that all out there live if you guys saw it I actually went and posted our eight episodes on the AppPoint channel they're up on the blog now as well so that consistent run through of all the episodes cool episode 52 will be up later this week with a link list to every question that we answered all the links that we've shared and discussed I'm going to go grab all of Sherry's links that she uploaded before she dropped off and all that will be in the blog post which you can find at buckleyplanet.com and with that so Sharon Sean Mike and Hal thank you so much and to of course Riz never showed up so he's dead to us put to Neil and Sherry sleep with the fishes and with that we will sign off and we'll see you next week see you later take care take care everybody