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Recently there has been a flurry of activity at Microsoft, resulting in a steady release of new features, functionality and tools into preview and production. At an event in New York last Wednesday, Microsoft announced their latest offering – ‘Microsoft Teams’. Teams is a chat-based workspace in Office 365, positioning itself as a serious contender […]

Want to find out how to build a custom flow, and use the advanced features? Register for the upcoming Flow webinar now. After being in preview for months, Microsoft Flow is now entering general availability, so in this post we will take a closer look at the tool and learn how to make a simple ‘Flow’. […]

Email investigations can come at the most inconvenient time In what has been an extraordinary election by any standards, the specter of email has come back again to dominate the headlines in the American presidential race. It’s quite extraordinary given what’s at stake that the investigation which concluded last July should be reopened and that […]

If you’ve been following our blog series on PSTN calling via Skype for Business, you will have seen how to get licensed for the service, add phone numbers, as well as assigning or transferring numbers as required. In this last post in the series we wanted to go through some final advice for Admins and users […]

Have you ever thought about how much it costs to maintain your on-premises email archive? The fact is you might be aware of some of those expenditures as you write various checks; but the costs are typically spread out over many different line items (sometimes hidden in other budgets), so it is hard to get […]

User error is a security risk that every organisation is vulnerable to, and when Admins are involved, these user errors – be they accidental, malicious or otherwise – can have far more impact. Whether you have a team of Admins, or just one managing your environment, it is important to know exactly what changes are being […]

Need to know who’s been logging into your Cogmotive Reports account? Perhaps you want to check that there’s been no suspicious activity, like failed log-ins, or users that should not still have access to the account as they’ve left your organisation. Our newest feature, the Audit Log, gives you the details of every single user […]

Unless you’re in the process of setting up PSTN calling through Skype for Business for a brand-new business, it’s likely that you’ll need to transfer some existing phone numbers to the service. Here’s a quick guide on how to do this. After the numbers have been ported, your service provider will change to Microsoft, and […]

Register for our upcoming webinar: ‘Have you clicked them yet? End to end project management using the latest tools in Office 365: Part One’ When it comes to project management, do you reach for the same tools and services every time? One of the main issues with using productivity tools for project management is that areas like […]

In the past, we’ve talked a lot about the capabilities of native reporting in Office 365, and we’ve monitored its progress as gradual improvements have been made. So when we attended Ignite last month, we were interested to attend the session on usage reporting, and hear about the newest updates, both in the Admin Center, and with […]