Teams

What You No Longer Need After Skype for Business Online’s Retirement

Many tenants still carry Skype for Business (SfBO) and Lync-era DNS baggage years after moving to Microsoft Teams. This post explains which legacy DNS records you can safely remove, when to keep the SIP federation record, and how to audit and clean up across all your verified domains.

Why these records existed

Historically, Skype for Business Online and Lync used several DNS records to enable client sign‑in, service discovery, and SIP routing:

Last week I attended the European Collaboration Summit for the third time. This year another location in Wiesbaden.

It was a fantastic conference with a lot of great speakers. This year I choose not to make a long post an everything I saw but made an Instagram story with the highlights.

Go and watch it here
https://www.instagram.com/stories/highlights/17889983905339614/

Next year the conference is coming back to Wiesbaden from June 8th till June 10th

Collaborating with Microsoft Teams is very easy, and I’m using it at several customers. At one customer the teams are getting multi-language where before every conversation was in Dutch, now with new team members that are not speaking Dutch they have trouble going back into the conversations and do not understand what is written. Luckily Microsoft Teams now offers the ability like Skype to have translations for this.

We found that this was not enabled by default in the tenants that I worked checked. There are two ways to enable this, with the GUI and with PowerShell.

It was time again for the European Collaboration Summit. After the success of last year, I attended again. This time it was a bit closer to home in Mainz.

We started on Tuesday with a keynote from Dan Holme (@DanHolme) with a recap of the SharePoint Conference in Las Vegas from last week. The take a way’s for me were

• OneDrive can handle over 300 different filetypes with a preview; this works in the browser and on the mobile clients.
• The Scan feature will be placed more centered in the app so that you can scan receipts or whiteboards a lot quicker. No need for the separate app Office Lens anymore
• Text recognition for images so you can search for the content of the images.
• @Mentions in Word Document will send a notification to that user. If that user does not have access to that document, a share request is displayed.
• In Microsoft Teams there will come full support for SharePoint document libraries.
• Modern pages will get the ability to have extra metadata that can be used for user targeting
• Microsoft Training services will be available around the summer. This can help with the user adoption of Office 365
• Search extensibility will come to Office 365; this means search suggestions and SPFx extensions for search
• Modern Teams and Communication sites will be in SharePoint 2019

After the keynote, I went to the session “Enabling the protection, detection, and response to cyber-threats” of Martina Grom (@magrom)

This year of SharePoint Saturday’s started with the one in Munich last weekend. This time there was also a preconference session on Friday. The sessions on Friday and Saturday were held at the brand-new building of Microsoft Germany.

Friday session

This year they organized two preconference sessions. A developer one about Office Dev PnP and an IT Pro about SharePoint 2016. I went to the SharePoint 2016 session where they talked about all the aspects of SharePoint 20116. They started with the architecture and the differences between SharePoint 2013 and 2016. They also explained where the issues were and how to solve them. After the architecture session we went into the authentication options within SharePoint and the hybrid identity. Here we looked at the identity options within Office 365 and the options to get your on-premises users into the cloud. Also, the dependencies where discussed like ADFS on-premises and your local internet line is down. After the lunch break we had a session about PowerShell and the Office Dev PnP PowerShell module that is available for on-premises and Office 365. We ended the day with setting up Hybrid. Thomas did a complete hybrid setup in just 1 hour with some preparations that he did on forehand. The most important part of the hybrid setup of Office 365 is that your identities are available in Office 365. When you have, that part done and your SharePoint farm can talk to the internet you can run a simple wizard from the SharePoint Online admin portal to setup the hybrid farm. This wizard will setup:

Since a Microsoft Teams depends on Office 365 Groups and creating a Microsoft Team creates an Office 365 Group I wanted to know if it was possible to upgrade an already existing Office 365 Group to a Microsoft Team.

This is possible but you need to keep a few things in mind to have the ability to upgrade a Microsoft Team. So let’s first start at the beginning, creating a Microsoft Team can be done within the Microsoft Team application by clicking on “Create team” and you will get this simple screen to create a new team

The title of this post is a bit strange because you need Office 365 Groups to use Microsoft Teams, it is built on top of Office 365 Groups. But then you might ask, we do not want to enable Office 365 Groups yet for our organization but we want to use or test Microsoft Teams?

To get this working you need to give a select number of people access to create Office 365 Groups, the people that is going to use Microsoft Teams do not need the permission to create Office 365 Groups. These users will not be able to create a new team, which is an Office 365 Group. They will get this error in Microsoft Teams.