When you create a new team in the Microsoft Teams interface, the choice is whether to create a public or a private team. The new team creates a new SharePoint site that needs integration with Teams channels. Here’s a quick look at the settings to consider.

Microsoft Azure offers built-in high availability for Platform as a Service (PaaS) offerings, but Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) requires manual configuration. Without high availability, service downtime can result in lost revenue. Stateless applications require a scale-out solution with load balancers, while stateful applications like database servers need HA solutions like Always On availability groups. Consider resource configuration options like availability zones or availability sets to ensure redundancy and minimize failures. High availability is crucial for optimal performance and should be carefully planned and implemented.

In Dynamics 365 Sales, there are lots of activities you can create and manage as a user such as phone calls, emails, meetings, tasks and assignments. This video shows you some examples of how you can manage those activities.

Microsoft does not currently push OneDrive insiders ring updates to clients as quickly as would be helpful. This article explains in detail the problem with OneDrive's insider updates and provides some resources for managing your OneDrive version.

With thousands of users accessing the sites, SharePoint administrators need to intelligently manage users and groups. Learn how PowerShell integrates with SharePoint and how to generate PowerShell scripts to make bulk changes.

Before deploying a Windows image, cleanups applied should include obsolete or unneeded component store elements, Windows drivers, temporary files, and more. Updating and maintaining applications, apps, and API support (like .NET) can get interesting on Windows operating systems. Winget helps tame this ongoing chore and handles most updates quickly and competently. This first article of the winget series reviews winget functions and features.

Some users store credentials including the password for a specific service account inside a PowerShell script in real-world production. This poses a highly vulnerable issue where an attacker can simply grab the credentials and use them. In this video, I discuss how we can use a privileged credential in your PowerShell script in a more secure way using a certificate and Azure Key Vault.

Administrators and power users who maintain Windows PCs need Windows boot media for installation, repair, troubleshooting, and more. This article examines three Microsoft and third-party tools and methods for creating such media: Windows Media Creation Tool (often abbreviated as MCT), Ventoy, and Rufus.

ChatGPT can provide an incredible boost to our productivity as IT professionals, but there is an art to unlocking its potential. Learn how to do that with these five helpful prompt engineering tips.

You can switch available roles in Dynamics 365 Business Central match your actual role within your company. That way the information on the interface as well as actions available will match your actual role. This video shows you how to do that.

This "how-to" article teaches you about using Windows PowerShell to import users into Microsoft 365 (Office 365) in bulk. Besides giving you the necessary cmdlets, it also contains a 4-minute video version of the article.

Learn how to set up webinars in Teams using the new interface that was launched in January 2023. This article will take you through all the ins and outs of configuring your next webinar.