Microsoft 365 Archives

12. October 202312. October 2023

How to archive inactive Microsoft Teams with Azure Automation

In my last blog post, I showed you how to find inactive Microsoft Teams with GraphAPI and Azure Automation. I’ve blogged about a script that writes all inactive Microsoft 365 groups to a SharePoint Online list. In this blog post, I will show you, how to archive inactive Microsoft Teams with Azure Automation.

My solution uses an approval process by Microsoft Flow and a Azure Automation Account with a scheduled script to archive a Team. The script uses the GraphAPI endpoint.

5. October 20235. October 2023

Find inactive Microsoft Teams with Azure Automation and GraphAPI

In many projects I get the question about how to find inactive Microsoft Teams and how to deal with them. In this blog post, I show you how to find inactive Microsoft Teams with Azure Automation and GraphAPI. The script adds all inactive Teams or Microsoft 365 to a SharePoint Online list. In a second blog post, I will describe how to archive these inactive groups. Of course, Microsoft offers a built-in solution for these scenarios. But perhaps the solution doesn’t fit to 100% to your business needs and then an own solution comes into the game.

26. September 202329. September 2023

How to deploy custom background images in Microsoft Teams 2.1

Microsoft will start soon to rollout the new Microsoft Teams client 2.1 and a lot of customers are asking how to bulk deploy customized background images to their clients. In the past, we could just copy our images to a dedicated Microsoft Teams folder and then we were good to go. However, with the new Teams client, this mechanism no longer seems to work. If you copy your images to the appropriate folder, the images will not appear in Microsoft Teams when you try to select your wallpaper. This blog post will show you a way how to handle and solve it.

10. August 202316. August 2023

[Updated] Auto dial with Microsoft Teams

I’ve released a blog post about auto dialing with Microsoft Teams in 2020. A user has commented that the tool AutoHotkey in Version 2.0 is not working any longer with my script. The script is written for AutoHotkey Version 1.0 and the publisher of the software changed the script language in the latest version. Therefor the user asked if I could write an updated script. For me, enough reasons to write an updated blog post about how to auto dial a phone number with Microsoft Teams.

8. March 20238. March 2023

How to connect an Audiocodes MediaPack to Microsoft Teams

In this blog post, I will guide you through the steps to connect an Audiocodes MediaPack to Microsoft Teams. This allows you to use your analoge phones with Microsoft Teams. Of course, it is not the cheapest solution and there are other options. But with Microsoft Teams, you can easily control and manage an analoge phone. For example, you can restrict outbound call destinations by assigning a voice routing policy. Or you can monitor the call quality for analog phone.

16. May 202216. September 2022

How to manage ownerless Microsoft Teams – Part 1

In this first blog post of two, I will cover how to manage ownerless Microsoft Teams and Microsoft 365 groups using board tools from Microsoft. Ownerless Microsoft 365 groups or teams are quite common and often seen in the wild.

A few weeks ago, Martina Grom tweeted about a new feature in the Microsoft Admin Center to find these ownerless Microsoft 365 groups or Microsoft Teams. It allows active members to be notified by mail when the team, or rather the Microsoft 365 group, no longer has an owner. This tweet brought this feature to my attention.

I will show you this option and an alternative way to notify someone about ownerless teams, like the IT staff for example, by a scripted solution in a second post.

17. September 202017. September 2020

Office 365 QuickTipp – Episode 29 – Notifications in Microsoft Teams – Part IV

In the fourth and last episode of my series about Microsoft Teams notifications I have two topics: a short look into the future about an upcoming change in the Microsoft Teams client. And second, I will try to resolve some questions to some magic mails which arrives from time to time in your mailbox about missed activities in Teams.

8. September 202010. September 2020

Office 365 QuickTipp – Episode 27 – Notifications in Teams – Part II

This is part II in my series about Microsoft Teams Notifications. Last week I started the series with an overview of the basic notification settings. Today, I will continue with the channel notifications in special. In this new blog post I will cover how to change the notifications of a dedicated channel.

1. September 20207. September 2020

Office 365 QuickTipp – Episode 26 – Notifications in Microsoft Teams – Part I

Episode 26 starts a multi-part series about notifications in Microsoft Teams. In this episode I will show you the genral settings regarding notification settings in Microsoft Teams.

17. August 202017. August 2020

Office 365 QuickTipp – Episode 24 – Report Message in Outlook

In this episode I’ll talk about an Outlook Addin from Microsoft that helps you to improve and optimize the detection rate for Fale/Positives.
For example, if a mail was classified as junk, you can report this mail as normal mail and it will be moved to your inbox. The same the other way round: If a Junk mail ends up in your inbox, you can report it as Junk or Phishing.
This way Exchange Online Protection learns for you and evaluates the mails accordingly in the future.