Microsoft has added breakout rooms to Microsoft Teams Meetings! Breakout rooms allow meeting organizers to split main meetings into smaller sessions for focused discussions and collaboration for those using the new meetings experience. Please see...

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Microsoft has announced that they will retire Skype for Business in 2021 and will replace it with Microsoft Teams for its chat and conferencing capabilities. HUIT will be making this change on the evening of June 12, 2020 starting at 6PM. For additional information about the transition, please visit our article Skype for Business Transition to... Read more about Skype for Business Transition to Microsoft teams

What is happening?

Beginning in late February, the way that users can set up auto-forwarding for their Office 365 email is changing. New users and those that are not currently auto-forwarding will no longer have access to the standard interface for enabling email auto-forwarding.  As an alternative, if desired, users can set up inbox rules to auto-forward email from their Office 365 accounts.

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Private channels enable members of an existing Microsoft Team to create channels for sensitive or confidential content. Only members given access and channel owners can see private channels and their contents. Using private channels reduces the need to create and manage additional, separate Teams.  To learn more about private channels please visit the Microsoft article on ...

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