Erwin Bierens

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Upgrade your Office 365 ProPlus to 64-bit

Easy upgrade in just a few steps!

Why should I upgrade? Recently Microsoft started to recommend its 64-bit edition of the Office 365 pro plus suite to be installed as the default Office installation. Office ProPlus and Office 2019 will now be installed with 64-bit as the default setting. Previously, the default setting was 32-bit at installation. This change will begin rolling out in mid-January, 2019. Message from admin center office 365 Office ProPlus and Office 2019 will now be installed with 64-bit as the default setting.

Posted by Erwin Bierens Monday, April 22, 2019

Get the hell out of Islands Mode

Hurry, hurry, choose wisely

What’s happening? More and more organisations are starting explore Microsoft Teams, and in doing this it’s important to understand the interopability options while running in coexistence (Skype for Business Online and Microsoft Teams next to each other). Like all other vendors, backward compatibility is always difficult ;-) Teams is in this case no exception. First of all, if your tenant was created before november 2018 you are probally running in Islands mode.

Posted by Erwin Bierens Thursday, April 18, 2019

Create Team and Channels with PowerShell

Create Team and Channels with Powershell Creating multiple Teams within Microsoft Teams can be a immense process and time-consuming, but you can easily create your Teams with the use of PowerShell. If you dont have installed the Microsoft Teams PowerShell Module follow this link. The Code $TeamName = "Contoso" $TeamDescription = "Contoso is a fictional company used by Microsoft as an example company and domain." $TeamVisability = "Public" #Public or Private $TeamOwner = "example@contoso.

Posted by erwin Friday, April 12, 2019

Setup Charles Proxy for Microsoft Teams

What is Charles Proxy Charles is an HTTP proxy / HTTP monitor / Reverse Proxy that enables a developer to view all of the HTTP and SSL / HTTPS traffic between their machine and the Internet. This includes requests, responses and the HTTP headers (which contain the cookies and caching information). Install Charles Proxy You can download the latest version from charlesproxy.com For a full version you will need to buy a license.

Posted by erwin Saturday, March 30, 2019

Microsoft Teams - Live Events

Live Events With Microsoft Teams live events, users in your organization can broadcast video and meeting content to large online audiences. Teams delivers chat-based collaboration, calling, meetings, and with live events, so you can expand the audience of your meetings. Teams live events is an extension of Teams meetings, enabling users to broadcast video and meeting content to a large online audience. These are meant for one-to-many communications where the host of the event is leading the interactions and audience participation is primarily to view the content shared by host.

Posted by erwin Tuesday, March 26, 2019