Following on from yesterdays post, I've discovered another key feature I use that is missing from the Teams Preview. The feature is the ability to add extra tabs to a given team/channel. In the older Teams Client as you can see below, there's the + sign that you can use to add extra content to a given teams channel. In the new Teams Preview there is no such thing :-( … [Read more...]
New Teams Preview – Missing Create a Team
I've been using the new Teams Preview for a few days now and found one key feature missing (I'm sure there's more but this is a biggie for me). That key feature missing is the ability to create a new Team. I found it missing when I was in a meeting with others and had the need to quickly create a new Team to handle a specific project. I put it aside for the moment at that … [Read more...]
New Teams update finally allows easy cross organisation switching
Microsoft this week announced the rollout of a new desktop client for Teams and you can read all about it here. One of my biggest issues with Teams vs Slack has been the ability to quickly and easily see notifications across different organisations that you might be joined to. You see with Teams prior to this, you had to phyiscally log out of one organisation and into the … [Read more...]
Microsoft Guts Partner Program Value
In the last 24 hours, two announcements slipped under the covers by Microsoft show that Microsoft really are not interested in partners at all. These announcements apply to both the Action Pack subscription, as well as the Silver and Gold reseller levels. All of these programs come with a yearly fee – some of them the fee is in the multiple thousands of … [Read more...]
If you have RDP open, you will be hacked–close the door now!
Many users offer remote access to their office for staff via permitting them to connect directly to the server over the RDP protocol via a port forward on port 3389 direct to a server or workstation. This is a major open door for which hackers can try brute force attacks on your systems and cause not only potential breach of your systems but also stability issues while they … [Read more...]