Brad Sams

If you can’t get Teams to send messages or properly access your Microsoft 365 content, you are not alone. It appears that there is another significant disruption to Microsoft’s cloud service as both Office 365...

If you had trouble yesterday accessing many of Microsoft’s services, you are not alone. For several hours, late into the afternoon on the East coast, Teams, Azure AD, and many other services were inaccessible. While...

One of the more challenging tasks in the world of IT is migrating from one service to another. Because of the overhead involved, many companies will opt to stick with an existing solution, even if it’s not perfect,...

Microsoft has announced today that the company plans to open a new datacenter region in Indonesia as part of the Berdayakan Ekonomi Digital Indonesia initiative. This will be the single largest investment in the country...

When you hear the word cloud, you likely think of a data center off in some magical place that (hopefully) has five 9s or more levels of reliability. But the reality is that the ‘cloud’ is a grouping of hardware and...

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If your organization has mailboxes that are overflowing with data and you have been ignoring the warnings that they have surpassed the receiving limits for the account, you will need to start paying more attention....

One of the benefits of Teams is that the platform provides a robust solution to host conference calls and to collaborate. But during the past year, the application has often been a second-class citizen for one, but very...

When it comes to using Microsoft software, there are two universal truths: it will take time to figure out how to actually use the software and it will take even more time to understand how to license it effectively....

It feels like the new year just rolled over, but we are now 1/12th of the way through 2021. As we have been doing for several years, this is a wrap-up of the important updates coming (or already arrived) to...

When getting started with your new Office 365 tenant, Microsoft has done a respectable job of making the first run experience not too overwhelming. But as your tenant grows, more people are added to roles that can...

One of the challenges of running a sprawling enterprise ecosystem is keeping everything consistent. With on-premises, hybrid, cloud, and admin portals all over the place, making sure that everyone describes each feature...

One of the pitches that has worked well for Microsoft in the past is that it’s not a company competing with its own customers. Meaning, Walmart and Kroger should use Azure, not AWS, because they are not Amazon which...

We have all been there, you were working on a file or having a conversation and you click away only to forget exactly where you were inside the Teams app. Was it in the calendar, Teams channel, or a conversation? Trying...

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If there is one thing that we all love, it’s meetings. Meetings in the morning, meetings in the afternoon, and more than likely, meetings after dark. In this remote world that we live in today, you can’t escape...

As we kick off the first workday of 2021, it’s time for our monthly round-up of what happened, well, last month. Even though it was a much quieter month, there are still notable updates and posts that you should know...

Back in July, Microsoft announced a slew of features that would be coming to the Teams meeting experience. While some of the functionality, like Together Mode, has arrived, there are other features that are still...