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Microsoft 365 Consumption vs. Adoption

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Megan Strant

You may have heard a few terms referencing Microsoft 365 platform success before, such as consumption, activation, usage, uptake and adoption. They may seem clear enough and are certainly buzz words being thrown around the last couple of years, but it’s not necessarily straight forward. It is important to know the lingo and ensure your focus is on the right area or data when it comes to your implementation and your longer-term Microsoft journey.

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Exchange Online Automation with EXOv2 Module Part 1

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Ingo Gegenwarth

How can EXO recipient management be done without the need of administrative accounts? This question has been asked for a long time.Microsoft Graph does not cover the entire recipient management in Exchange Online and Microsoft customers have been asking for a solution for a long time. Now as Microsoft turns off Basic authentication, it looks like there is some movement.

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New Features for Single Item Recovery

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Nathan O'Bryan MCSM

There's a lot of content out there about backups for Office 365. I personally have written and spoken a lot about backups for Office 365. If you ask 10 experts, you will probably get 10 different opinions about how, or why, or what you should or should not backup in Office 365. Depending on the day (and, let’s be honest, depending on who I am working for) I may give you different answers.

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Reply All Storm Protection in Exchange Online

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Jaap Wesselius

25 years ago, I was working for Microsoft. And one morning we received a message with the subject line “Why am I on this mailing list?  Please remove me from it.”  This was followed by another email saying “Me Too!”, and then another “Me Too!”, and another, and another. These were followed by multiple emails with subject line “People stop with the reply alls”. Before we knew it, our Exchange environment was brought to a standstill because of the enormous amount of email sent via this Distribution Group.

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