Microsoft Teams distribute company background via GPO (company branding)

by A.K.common, hybrid environments office 365, Microsoft Office 365, microsoft teams, Microsoft TeamsPosted on 9 Comments

Some time ago you were able to define backgrounds or bluring in Microsoft Teams. If you choose a background there are some predefined from microsoft. The download URL for backgrounds: https://statics.teams.microsoft.com/evergreen-assets/backgroundimages/ Custombackgrounds are stored inside the user %appdata%\Microsoft\Teams\Backgrounds\Uploads If you have a company and want to give your users the chance to use corporate backgrounds. …

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Office 365 Business name changes the Second (to Microsoft 365)

by A.K.common, hybrid environments office 365, Microsoft 365, Microsoft Office 365Posted on No Comments

Microsoft product group decided to change the names of smaller business products in the office 365 universe. This change takes affect on April 21, 2020 (automatically). First of all here are the new names (offical blogpost): Office 365 Business Essentials -> Microsoft 365 Business BasicOffice 365 Business Premium -> Microsoft 365 Business StandardOffice 365 Business …

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Connect local explorer to Microsoft Teams files

by A.K.common, Microsoft Office 365, Microsoft OneDrive for Business, microsoft teamsPosted on No Comments

UPDATE 04/04/2020: the newest teams version gives you a small button to sync, this uses the same link in sharepoint. But you can use Sharepoint version also. Teams is a really cool collaboration software from Microsoft, but some things are kind of inconvenient. Lot of customers ask me how to sync the files from teams …

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Office 365 E-Mail forward attack via inboxrules in user mailboxes

by A.K.common, Microsoft Exchange Server, Microsoft Office 365Posted on No Comments

NOTE: you can also use the code on exchange onpremises 2010 and aboveA customer called me two weeks ago, that he got the feedback from his customer that he is sending some strange mails. So I had a look at the O365 security and clompliance center. After searching some reports I found out, that every …

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O365 PowerShell Connector with encypted password files

by A.K.azure ad powershell, common, hybrid environments office 365, Microsoft Office 365, Microsoft Teams, microsoft teams, PowershellPosted on 3 Comments

During my daily work I need to connect to Office 365 powershell from time to time, so I also want to automate this task to safe time and also because I’m a lazy guy. Befor using my O365 connector you should read my other articles about encrypting passwords to secure string. See my prolog working …

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