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Get notifications about your Planner task assignments in Microsoft Teams

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we’re happy to announce the availability of Planner notifications in Microsoft Teams. These notifications ensure you won’t have to leave Teams to stay on top of your work. We’ve heard you’re feedback about using the Planner tab in Teams, which is the hub for teamwork in Office 365, and we’re excited to power up the Planner-in-Teams experience with notifications.     Starting today,  if you’re an   Office 365 Enterprise  or  Office 365 Education  customer , you’ll   receive Teams notification s  whenever you’re assigned a Planner task (so long as that Planner plan has a tab in Teams).   Your assignment notifications  will  appear in your Teams Activity feed and the Teams Cha t pane   and contain  the  following details:   T ask title   W ho assigned the task to  you   W hich plan the task belongs  to L ink to open the task details in Teams     Y ou’ll receive   Teams notifications   no matter where your task is assigned from , whether that’s   the  Planner  mobile  app , 
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Sharepoint Features in 2019

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When you’re exploring software products —specially cloud-based apps— you expect a free tier or trial. After all, a primary value proposition of SaaS vendors is self-service; you want to be able to explore the product yourself and see if it matches your needs. Not quite with Microsoft SharePoint. Besides the fact you must add your credit card number to access a free trial, it gives you access to the whole Microsoft Office 365 suite — but you will struggle to find the module you care about: SharePoint. Of course, you could also download the on-premise version on your PC. In other words, you’re occupying your computer resources just to give SharePoint a spin. This was my experience when I was trying to sign up for SharePoint to get a sense of its feature set. Just to save others who are going down the same route some trouble I decided to create  a checklist and description of SharePoint features , so that you can quickly decide if it’s the collaboration tool your company should go
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Create SharePoint lists from Excel or other lists

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Changing the way business gets done – digital transformation – begins with great data. Microsoft 365 offers powerful tools for building workflows, automation and reporting – PowerApps, Flow, and Power BI. But you need a great place to store all that data. Every month, millions of users turn to SharePoint lists to store critical business data.  Lists are secure, easy to use, and high capacity, with up to 30 million items in a single list.  Today, across Microsoft 365, SharePoint lists store billions of rows of data to house information for scenarios like customers, audits or emergency room availability and more across Microsoft 365. Now, we’re making it easier than ever to get started with a list – using Excel or other lists as a starting point. Create a SharePoint list from an existing list or from Excel For years, business data often began life in Excel.  Excel is widely used and a common download format.  But lists are shareable, secure, mobile friendly, easy to use a
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Using Flow for SharePoint News Notifications

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Sending notifications to users when a SharePoint news item is posted is something which is commonly requested, both with clients and on the various tech forums which I frequent. It definitely makes sense, and there is a lot you can do, using Microsoft Flow, to send notifications in a number of different ways to suit your users regardless of generation and technological awareness. Whilst, this blog post refers to Flow, the same approach can be applied using Azure Logic Apps. In this blog post, we’ll look at how we can connect Flow to the site pages library, and how we can determine the page type, publishing status and some basic content so we can ensure that our users are getting the right information at the right time. SharePoint News Posts With modern SharePoint sites, you get a great way of creating and editing news items. It’s so simple to be able to create the news item within the browser, hit publish, but then wonder why users aren’t flocking to come and read your content.
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Planner's new copy plan feature helps streamline work management

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We are pleased to share that we've added the ability to copy plans to  Microsoft  Planner.  We built this feature as the first step to address your feedback that you'd like to reuse project plans and repeat business processes.   With copy plan,  you can now easily duplicate  plans   and get organized quickly. Copy existing plans to use for future projects   It takes a lot of time to build the perfect  work management  plan.  This is especially true when  a  plan includes a lot of tasks or are part of a repeated process.   Manually  recreating  plans can be tedious  and takes time away from  actually  doing  the work .    That’s where copy plan comes in.   With  this  feature, you can now  create a new plan   by  duplicating  an existing  one .   From the Planner hub, s imply  select “Copy plan”   under  the “…” menu on the  p lan  you'd like to copy .  You can also copy a plan from the "..." menu when looking at a specific plan. Copy plans from the
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Office 365 E3 vs. Microsoft 365 Business: Which One Is Right for You?

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U p until recently, Microsoft Office 365 had either been bundled for large enterprises, typically covered under the Office 365 E3 plan, or available as a mix-and-match through various plans. This made it difficult for smaller agile companies to manage their cloud experience. Enterprise plans had additional features in SharePoint, Exchange, and Data security that were needed by small- and medium-sized companies but were not available in smaller bundles. Microsoft now has a cloud-based service for small businesses that combines Office 365, Data Security, and Windows 10. It’s a solution designed for growing businesses with less than 300 users that neither have the time nor the necessary resources to maintain multiple servers and seats. It also gives not only your staff but also your customers the flexibility to securely share, collaborate, and communicate seamlessly on any device, anywhere and anytime. Many young businesses punch above their weight in products or services despite th
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SharePoint 2019 Features: A Level Up for Web Applications

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Microsoft SharePoint 2019 is the talk of the town yet again as Microsoft recently revealed the exciting SharePoint 2019 features. A modern platform for choice & flexibility, SharePoint 2019 is reimagined to focus on users. It comes with a familiar and intuitive design to work seamlessly across all the screens from tablets, phones, laptops to desktops. The zest of SharePoint 2019 lies in the fact that it offers instant access to people, content & apps you are working with the most, which enables you to spend less time in searching information and more on working with it. Using the cloud as the baseline, Microsoft is offering seamless communications and collaborative experiences to SharePoint 2019 customers. The SharePoint 2019 new features include Communications Sites, Team Sites, Team News, and Lists & Libraries with broader data mobility and NGSC (Next Generation Sync Client) support for reliable access to user’s documents anytime, anywhere. With the 2019 editio
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