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How to use MS Teams [2024 step by step guide]

As remote and hybrid work environments become the norm, many teams rely on virtual communication tools like Microsoft Teams for seamless collaboration. If you’re new to Microsoft Teams, navigating its features can be a bit overwhelming. This step-by-step guide will help you get started using Microsoft Teams effectively for video conferencing, team collaboration, and more.

Microsoft Teams is "Open For Business"...for Hackers

Another day, another depressing tale of wide-open-by-design collaboration software from tech giants, that leads to easy exploitation by hackers. This time, it’s Microsoft Teams opening the door for phishing attackers to send federated Teams server messages to organizations who didn’t have sufficient paranoia to close the biggest open door ever into their internal communications.

Slack vs Microsoft Teams: Which Tool is Ahead of the Game?

With the onset of the pandemic and the shift in workplace behaviors, there was a sudden need to facilitate collaboration and digitization to enhance productivity and maintain consistency between team members across different locations and time zones. Satya Nadella and Bill Gates wanted to bid $8 billion USD to acquire Slack, the team chat SaaS company. Their meeting took an extraordinary turn, and instead of buying Slack, they decided to create their own app.
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What Customers Love About Exoprise

At Exoprise, we always listen to customers' input and ensure they have the best experience possible. Our customer success, support, and engineering teams have been hard at work, collecting this feedback and insights to identify the functionality and features loved by our customers. Today, we'll be sharing the top five favorites that have been brought to our attention in recent conversations. These features, some well-known and widely used, to some more powerful yet lesser-known functionalities. Whether you're new to Exoprise or a seasoned user, you may discover something new and valuable.

AVD Performance Dashboard

In this dashboard tutorial video, we will walk you through building an Azure Virtual Desktop dashboard. This dashboard provides users with the visibility they need into the status of Azure Virtual Desktop. The Azure Virtual Desktop dashboard combines CloudReady and Service Watch metrics for a holistic view of Azure Virtual Desktops availability and performance. When issues occur, users can quickly review the dashboard to identify whether the issues is limited to an office, individual device, or affecting Azure Virtual Desktop as a whole.

Microsoft Teams Health Dashboard

In this dashboard tutorial video, we will walk you through building a Teams Health Dashboard by combining the collected metrics for CloudReady Synthetics and Service Watch Desktop. The Teams Health Dashboard provides users with a holistic view of Microsoft Teams availability and performance. When an issue occurs, users can quickly review the Teams Health Dashboard and identify whether the issue is limited to an office or affecting Microsoft Teams as a whole.

Email Health Dashboard

In this dashboard tutorial video, we’ll be walking you through building a Microsoft Exchange and Outlook dashboard utilizing CloudReady Synthetics and Service Watch Desktop. This dashboard is a great first stop when diagnosing user email issues. When an issue comes up, engineers can quickly review the CloudReady data available in the dashboard to identify if an office or Exchange Online is experiencing issues or an outage.
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How to Monitor Your Email Services

Verifying email performance is more than the basic understanding of message flow. Outbound mail in the form of Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) and inbound mail through MAPI or Microsoft's Graph API only parts of email systems to monitor, usually through pings or basic delivery confirmations. Often, once email is moved to Exchange Online, even basic visibility of mail flow and reliable delivery is lost. Many subsystems go into efficient email deliverability, especially once multiple email hygiene providers are added to the mix.

Actionable Alarms Dashboard

In this dashboard tutorial video, we will walk you through building an Actionable Alarms dashboard. This dashboard provides users with the visibility they need into the status of their SaaS solutions as well as how their end-user devices are performing. Dashboards allow combining both CloudReady and Service Watch data into a single pane of glass for visibility. Utilizing the Alarm widgets, users can quickly identify what issues need to be investigated while quickly being able to access the affected resources for review.

Is Azure Down?

As the reliance on cloud services like Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) and Azure Active Directory (AD) continues to soar, the need for robust monitoring tools has become critical. Ensuring optimal performance and availability of Azure services is vital for organizations shifting towards Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) for full-time or disaster recovery use.