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Microsoft Teams With Office 365!!

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Microsoft Teams brings together the full breadth and depth of Office 365, to provide a true chat-based hub for teamwork and give customers the opportunity to create a more open, fluid, and digital environment. Microsoft Teams is built on existing Microsoft technologies woven together by Office 365 Groups.

  • Leveraged by users and teams who are looking to collaborate in real-time with the same group of people.

  • Helps teams looking to iterate quickly on a project while sharing files and collaborating on shared deliverables.

  • Allows users to connect a wide range of tools into their workspace (such as Planner, Power BI, GitHub, etc.).

 

Office 365 licensing for Microsoft Teams

The following Office 365 subscriptions enable users for Teams.

Small Business Plans Enterprise Plans Education Plans Developer Plans
Office 365 Business Essentials Office 365 Enterprise E1 Office 365 Education Office 365 Developer
Office 365 Business Premium Office 365 Enterprise E3 Office 365 Education Plus  
Office 365 Enterprise F1 Office 365 Enterprise E4 (retired) Office 365 Education E3 (retired)  
  Office 365 Enterprise E5 Office 365 Education E5  

Describes some of the limits, specifications, and other requirements that apply to Microsoft Teams.

Feature Maximum limit
Number of teams a user can create 250
Number of members in a team 2,500
Number of teams a global admin can create Unlimited
Number of teams an Office 365 tenant can have 500,000
Number of channels per team 200
   
Meetings and calls   
Feature Maximum limit
Number of people in a meeting 80
Number of people in a private chat 20

Messaging

Users who participate in conversations that are part of the Chat list in Microsoft Teams must have an Exchange Online (cloud-based) mailbox for an admin to search chat conversations. That’s because conversations that are part of the Chat list are stored in the cloud-based mailboxes of the chat participants.

Microsoft Teams chat function works on a Microsoft Exchange back end, so you can apply the Exchange messaging limits to the chat function within Microsoft Teams

Feature Office 365 Enterprise E1 Office 365 Enterprise E3 Office 365 Enterprise E5 Office 365 Enterprise F1
Message size limit † 25 KB 25 KB 25 KB 25 KB
File attachments limit ‡ 20 20 20 20
Inline images limit ‡ 50 50 50 50

† If the message exceeds this limit, a preview message is generated and the user is asked to view/download the original email from the link provided.

‡ If the number of attachments or images exceeds this limit, the message will not be processed and an NDR e-mail will be sent back to the sender notifying them of the error.

Storage

Each team in Microsoft Teams has a team site in SharePoint Online, and each channel in a team gets a folder within the default team site document library. Files shared within a conversation are automatically added to the document library, and permissions and file security options set in SharePoint are automatically reflected within Teams.

If you don’t have SharePoint Online enabled in your tenant, Microsoft Teams users cannot always share files in teams. Users in private chat also cannot share files because One Drive for Business (which is tied to the SharePoint license) is required for that functionality. 

Because Teams runs on a SharePoint Online back end for file sharing, SharePoint limitations apply to the Files section within a Team. Here are the applicable storage limits for SharePoint Online.

Feature Office 365 Business Essentials Office 365 Business Premium Office 365 Enterprise E1 Office 365 Enterprise E3 Office 365 Enterprise E5 Office 365 Enterprise F1
Storage 1 TB per organization plus 0.5 GB per license purchased 1 TB per organization plus 0.5 GB per license purchased 1 TB per organization plus 0.5 GB per license purchased 1 TB per organization plus 0.5 GB per license purchased 1 TB per organization plus 0.5 GB per license purchased 1 TB per organization
Storage for Teams Files Up to 25 TB per site collection or group Up to 25 TB per site collection or group Up to 25 TB per site collection or group Up to 25 TB per site collection or group Up to 25 TB per site collection or group Up to 25 TB per site collection or group
File upload limit 15 GB 15 GB 15 GB 15 GB 15 GB 15 GB

Browsers 

Teams supports the following internet browsers.

Browser Notes
Internet Explorer 11  
Microsoft Edge Calling and Meetings supported on Edge RS2 or later
Chrome, the latest version plus two previous versions Meetings supported on Chrome 59 or later
Calling support coming soon
Firefox, the latest version plus two previous versions  
 

New feature: Office 365 Advanced eDiscovery Optical Character Recognition

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Keeping your Business Email Safe with Microsoft Exchange

New feature: Office 365 Advanced eDiscovery Optical Character Recognition

Published On: May 8, 2017

Expires On: June 8, 2017

Advanced eDiscovery Optical Character Recognition (OCR) is a new Office 365 feature. You can begin using this feature today.

Advanced eDiscovery Optical Character Recognition (OCR) enables the extraction of text from images. OCR is supported for loose files, email attachments, and embedded images. This feature allows the powerful text analytic capabilities of Advanced eDiscovery; including near-duplicates, email threading, themes, and predictive coding to be applied to image files.

 

NOTE: Advanced eDiscovery requires an Office 365 E5 subscription for your organization. If you don’t have that plan and want to try Advanced eDiscovery, you can sign up for a trial of Office 365 Enterprise E5.

 

What do I need to do to prepare for this change?

 

With Advanced eDiscovery, you can better understand your Office 365 data and reduce your eDiscovery costs. Advanced eDiscovery helps you analyze unstructured data within Office 365, perform more efficient document review, and make decisions to reduce data for eDiscovery. You can work with data stored in Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, OneDrive for Business, Skype for Business, Office 365 Groups, and Microsoft Teams. You can perform an eDiscovery search in the Office 365 Security & Compliance Center to search for content in groups, individual mailboxes and sites, and then analyze the search results with Advanced eDiscovery. Note that when you prepare search results for analysis in Advanced eDiscovery, Optical Character Recognition enables the extraction of text from images. This feature allows the powerful text analytic capabilities of Advanced eDiscovery to be applied to image files.

Advanced eDiscovery streamlines and speeds up the document review process by identifying redundant information with features like Near-duplicates detection and Email Thread analysis. The Relevance feature applies predictive coding technology to identify relevant documents. Advanced eDiscovery learns from your tagging decisions on sample documents and applies statistical and self-learning techniques to calculate the relevance of each document in the data set. This enables you to focus on key documents, make quick yet informed decisions on case strategy, cull data, and prioritize review.

 

Why advanced eDiscovery? 

Office 365 Advanced eDiscovery builds on the existing set of eDiscovery capabilities in Office 365. For example, you can use the Search feature in the Office 365 Security & Compliance Center to perform an initial search of all the content sources in your organization to identify and collect the data that may be relevant to a specific legal case. Then you can perform analysis on that data by applying the text analytics, machine learning, and the Relevance/predictive coding capabilities of Advanced eDiscovery. This can help your organization quickly process thousands of email messages, documents, and other kinds of data to find those items that are most likely relevant to a specific case. The reduced data set can then be exported out of Office 365 for further review.

 

The following topics describe the setup and use of Advanced eDiscovery modules and features:

 

  • Quick setup for Advanced eDiscovery: Helps you to get started with Advanced eDiscovery.
  • Running the Advanced eDiscovery Process module: Enables the preparation of files from specified data sources.
  • Analyzing case data with Advanced eDiscovery: Allows identification and grouping of Near-duplicate files and hierarchically structured groups of Email Threads.
  • Managing Advanced eDiscovery Relevance setup: Allows the definition of parameters for Relevance processing.
  • Using the Advanced eDiscovery Relevance module: Identifies and ranks files by Relevance scores, which assists with early case assessment, document culling, and review.
 

Updated Feature: OneDrive and SharePoint Online sharing experience

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Updated Feature: OneDrive and SharePoint Online sharing experience

Published On: May 8, 2017

Expires On: September 30, 2017

We’ve improved the sharing UI on the OneDrive for Business and SharePoint Online websites and sync clients to provide easier collaboration, better usability and improved security. We’ve also overhauled the sharing dialog in both OneDrive and SharePoint and replaced it with a single control that will be available to users in the web and in the OneDrive sync client.

What do I need to do to prepare for this change?

New OneDrive and SharePoint sharing experience

Applies To: SharePoint Online OneDrive for Business

We’ve improved the sharing UI on the OneDrive for Business and SharePoint Online websites and sync clients to provide easier collaboration and better security. We have made some changes which improve usability.

 

 

Share command   

The Share command now sends shareable links by default rather than granting permissions to specific people like the old Invite people tab. This better matches user expectations that links sent in email can be forwarded to others by default. In other words, Share does the same thing as Copy link except it enables users to send the link immediately to recipients via email.

Both the Share and Copy link commands are now default to the same permissions and use the same link settings.

Link types   

Users can change settings on sharing links to one of three possible permission levels:

  • Anyone with this link:A shareable link that can be sent to others. It behaves like email. You can forward it to others or add people to the thread and it will work. This option does not require recipients to sign-in and hence is the most convenient for recipients. Use this for sharing content that can be freely shared with others, including people outside your tenant.
  • Only people in [tenant]: Users who open the link must sign-in or be signed-in to a non-guest account in the tenant. It behaves like email with restrictions on it. You can forward it to others or add people to the thread, as long as the people added are inside your tenant. If any external user gets a hold of the link, they will not be able to use it. Use this for sharing internal-only content.
  • Specific people: Grant permission only to the people you list. The link will only work for those people (and others who already have access to the item). If recipients want to send this link to anyone else, they need to ensure those recipients have been granted permission to the resource, otherwise the link won’t work. This option produces behavior similar to the “Invite people” tab in the old sharing UI.

Tenant admins who wish to change the default link permission can do so in the OneDrive Admin Center and the SharePoint Admin Center.

Users who want to explicitly grant permissions to an item without sending a link can do so by selecting “Manage access” and then selecting “Add people”. For example, if a user wishes to make sure that a folder can be accessed by an entire division, they may want to grant access here rather than send a sharing email to the entire division.

The new sharing UI will be rolling out in late Spring on the following endpoints:

OneDrive for Business on the web

SharePoint Online document libraries on the web

Windows File Explorer context menu for sync’ed files (“Share” command)

macOS Finder context menu for sync’ed files (“Share” command)

 
Keeping your Business Email Safe with Microsoft Exchange

Keeping your Business Email Safe with Microsoft Exchange

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You may have already heard of Microsoft’s Online Exchange, but you might not be aware of how good it can be in terms of security.

As a business, you’ll want to ensure that all your emails, your contact information and your files are all completely safe and protected when stored on cloud software, so let’s take a closer look at how Microsoft Exchange has your best interests in mind.

 

Anti-Malware and Virus Protection through Microsoft Exchange Online Protection

If you’re worried about malware finding its way onto your computer via the cloud, you’ll be glad to know that anti-malware protection is included in the cost of Microsoft Online Exchange.

To set it up, all you need to do is select your chosen malware filter settings by going to the Exchange Admin Centre (EAC). From here, you’ll be able to use mail flow rules to block certain extensions commonly associated with malware, or files that contain particular words or phrases. You may even choose to block all messages and emails that contain executable files – as these are usually the cause of malware transmission.

Additionally, Microsoft Exchange Online Protection includes multiple scan engines designed to protect against malware – Covering both known and unknown threats. These layered defences ensure that you’re far less likely to inadvertently receive malware through your inbox and has been proven to be more powerful in terms of protection than a single layer engine.

The reason Microsoft Exchange can provide such a strong level of protection is down to the fact Microsoft works closely with anti-malware engineers, who strive to develop malware identification and patches before any harm can be done.

 

Advanced Threat Protection

Another way to ensure you’re as safe as possible when using the cloud is to purchase Microsoft Office 365 Advanced Threat Protection. This is an add-on service that’s available to select users of Microsoft Exchange and/or Office 365. It protects against advanced threats, staying up to date on new malware campaigns and viruses that appear on a daily basis.

The feature works in real-time to update against these sophisticated new attacks, so use it if you want to be absolutely certain you’re safe at all times.

While many people take chances with their online safety and end up just fine, is it really worth the risk? When using software for business, we strongly recommend choosing the products with the best levels of security to ensure that your personal information is well protected.

 

If you don’t yet have Microsoft Exchange, consider purchasing it from AisplStore.com. We offer both Plan 1 and Plan 2, as well as Microsoft Exchange Kiosk, so you’ll have everything you need to get started with professional quality email storage for your business.

 

If there’s anything at all you’d like to know about Microsoft Exchange before buying, don’t hesitate to get in touch as we’ll be happy to help you choose your ideal product.

 
Google Suite Vs. Exchange Online Plan 1: Which is for You?

Google Suite Vs. Exchange Online Plan 1: Which Is For You?

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When you’re considering cloud services for business, it’s easy to feel undecided with so many choices to consider. Some of the most popular include Google Suite and Microsoft Exchange Online.

 

Microsoft Exchange Online Plan 1

Microsoft Exchange Online is a hosted service that’s part of the 365 plan. For today, let’s focus on Exchange Online Plan 1.

Exchange Online Plan 1 provides a secure, reliable, business class email service with a 50GB mailbox and will allow you to send messages of up to 150MB. It supports Outlook – both via the individual app and web-based access – and allows you to manage your inbox using the Clutter feature.

You can also benefit from premier security through Exchange Online Protection, keeping you safe from malware and spam.

 

Google Suite

Google Suite (previously known as Google Apps for Work) provides a similar service, designed for businesses. It includes a professional email account with a 30GB mailbox. Like Exchange Online, it is compatible with Outlook and allows you to manage your emails effectively.

 

So, which is for you?

While both systems are great for businesses, we’d recommend Microsoft Exchange Online Plan 1 – and here’s why!

  • Microsoft Exchange Online Plan 1 offers more storage space, which is great if you’re dealing with emails in high volumes on a regular basis. It’s also good if you’re not in the habit of deleting emails regularly, or have many that you’d want to save.
  • Microsoft Exchange Online features more security and antivirus options to ensure your email stays safe.
  • Microsoft Exchange Online Plan 1 is the cheaper of the two options. Right now on the brands’ official sites, Google Suite is listed at $5 per user per month, while Microsoft Exchange Online Plan 1 is only $4 per user per month. Plus, if you buy directly from AisplStore, you can take advantage of the offer below.
  • Essentially, you’re getting more for less when you choose Exchange Online.

 

If you’re interested in Microsoft Exchange Online Plan 1, AisplStore can help.

 At AisplStore, we offer a variety of Microsoft Exchange Online plans including Plan 1 (Yearly), Plan 1 (Monthly), Plan 2 (Yearly), Plan 2 (Monthly) and Exchange Online Kiosk.

However, if it’s Plan 1 you’re most interested in, you’ll no doubt be pleased to learn that we currently have a special price for Microsoft Exchange Online Plan 1, at just INR 120 per user, per month.

 

Take advantage of this great value deal by purchasing Microsoft Exchange Online Plan 1 directly from AisplStore.com. Not only will you get a great price, but you’ll also be able to rest assured knowing you have a high quality, authentic product from a fully authorised seller and Microsoft Gold Partner site.

And of course, if you have any questions about which could be the right product for your needs, don’t hesitate to let us know!