Blogs about Atlas, Microsoft 365, Teams (17)

Is Microsoft the best digital workplace solution?

The digital workplace as a concept has been getting a lot of attention especially in the Microsoft ecosystem. The modern digital workplace is forcing companies to rethink how we work best and where we work, changing our traditional workplace into more of a digital workplace.

Adoption and Change Management, and Microsoft Partners specialization

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How to add the new Yammer Communities app in Microsoft Teams

The new Yammer experience is finally here, and has been made available by Microsoft for desktop users through the Communities app in the Teams store for free.

Cool trick to customise your background in Microsoft Teams

A few days back, Microsoft launched a new feature for Teams called Background Effects which everybody seems to be loving and using.

How to return furloughed staff to work

I know that we’re only just getting used to working in an environment where we’re all working remotely and some of our colleagues are furloughed or working reduced hours, but for those of us in an operations planning role, we have to try and look beyond the present to a time when those missing colleagues return to the workplace.

Private Groups not appearing in SharePoint Search

One of the main steps when provision Teams, is calling Microsoft Graph API, to, well, provision the Team. Although the Team was provisioned correctly, we realised that the Team (and therefore all the content related to the Team, like files in the SharePoint library) was not surfaced in the Office 365 search (or SharePoint search if you will). So nothing at all was coming up for the Owner of the Team. Why was that?

Microsoft Teams features and updates – what’s new in Teams for 2020

We have been using Teams from the very early days as well as constantly developing cool features for Microsoft Teams. We are so passionate about Teams that we thought we should share some of the new features that Microsoft have recently released as well as the ones they are currently working on.

Improve Customer Happiness and Loyalty through Customer Success

"To effectively retain clients, technology product marketers need to embrace a customer success mindset that helps clients to achieve business outcomes and derive more value from their investment" – Ray Pun Senior Director Analyst, Gartner

Some thoughts on working from home

It’s an oft-repeated comment, but we really are having to learn to live our lives in ways that are as novel as Covid-19 itself. How long we’ll have to do so remains something of a mystery but with no vaccine in sight, we can assume that it’s going to be for longer than we might perhaps like. So, how am I managing my self-isolation and what might be the upsides?

We’re all remote workers now!

Like many people starting a new job, I had ‘first day of school’ nerves for the first few days. I spent time learning about my new workplace and getting to know my colleagues. I looked forward to the lunch breaks to be shared with the team and the getting-to-know-you moments with those who sit near me.

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