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When the World Says No

26 Tuesday Jul 2022

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In my vacation, I love to go back to my library and read a book that has nothing to do with day to day work.

Here is a small story when the World says No.

“Henry Ward Beecher was a young boy in school when he learned a lesson in self-confidence which he never forgot. He was called upon to recite in front of the class. He had hardly begun when the teacher interrupted with an emphatic, ‘No!’ He started again, and again the teacher thundered, ‘NO!’ Humiliated, Henry sat down.

The next boy rose to recite and had just begun when the teacher shouted, ‘No!’ this student, however, kept on with the recitation until he completed it. As he sat down, the teacher responded, ‘Very good!’.

Henry was irritated. ‘I recited just as he did’, he complained to the teacher. but the instructor replied, ‘It is not enough to know your lesson, you must be sure. When you allowed me to stop you, it meant that you were uncertain. If the entire World says, “No!” it is your business to say, “Yes!” and prove it.’

The world says, ‘No!’ in a thousand ways:

‘No! You can’t do that.’

‘No! You are wrong.’

‘No! You are too old.’

‘No! You are too young.’

‘No! You are too weak.’

‘No! It will never work.’

‘No! You don’t have the education.’

‘No! You don’t have the background.’

‘No! You don’t have the money.’

‘No! It can’t be done.’

And each ‘No!’ you hear has the potential to erode your confidence bit by bit until you give up altogether.

So Do not let the world sculpture your self confidence No Matter What!.

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I am not Manager in Microsoft – only Yet.

01 Tuesday Mar 2022

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But I am the manager of my work. I am the manager of my deliveries. Will you ever be a manager of your own work and ruin it !!! Definitely not!.

Here is the thing, I’m supposed to be on vacation but unfortunately I could not finish everything pending before vacation especially vacations in my calendar are planned year ahead as I learnt as a mother of twins for beautiful little princess girls Roussel and Sophia … to plan my vacation with their school time off so we can have some fun together. Even if in home or little outing or meeting their friends and our family…. what so ever.

But being manager of my work, I take full responsibility of each and every pending action and task and pending mails and meetings. but at least it is a slow down in vacation, but still …….. needed really.

Enjoying my vacation … hopefully and teaching the little girls some rules in life to help them be good girls 🙂 With few meetings with our amazing customers.

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SharePoint Online is not enough!

30 Monday Aug 2021

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You can’t just know SharePoint and think this is it! It just doesn’t work, you need to ramp up on Teams as they work together just perfect so add Teams to your skills, its necessary.

Add Power Platform too, you will need to create apps & automate a cycle and have a dashboard and who does not have a Bot nowadays! 

Remember SharePoint Online is not enough! 

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Filter GetItems in Power Automate by People Picker Field

22 Sunday Aug 2021

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So very simple character that does the trick of it… if you are trying to filter Items from a SharePoint List using Get Items Action in Power Automate and your field is of type People Picker, so here is how to do so…

Write the Field Name and then back slash EMail as per screen shot below and voila works.

I have seen other posts trying to add filter array but actually you don’t need to complicate things.

Happy SharePointing and Automating 🙂

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Turn on ATP for SharePoint, OneDrive & Teams

19 Saturday Sep 2020

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In the previous post, we saw how it looks like and what happens when a malicious files are detected in a SharePoint Library and OneDrive.

In this post, we will walk through turning ATP on for SharePoint, OneDrive and Teams.

1- Go to Security Admin Center, under Thread Management, click on Policy,

2- Start by clicking Create to create a new policy.

3- Follow the steps for the policy, in the settings, choose to block all,

4- Once the policy created, select it and select Global settings;

5- By default, the policy will have ATP turned on for SharePoint, OneDrive and Teams.

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ATP – Malicious file detected in a library – SharePoint, OneDrive & Teams

19 Saturday Sep 2020

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People regularly share files and collaborate using SharePoint, OneDrive, and Microsoft Teams. With Office 365 Advanced Threat Protection (ATP), your organization can collaborate in a safer manner. ATP helps detect and block files that are identified as malicious in team sites and document libraries.

How Office 365 ATP operates

When a file in SharePoint Online, OneDrive for Business, and Microsoft Teams has been identified as malicious, ATP directly integrates with the file stores to lock that file. The following image shows an example of a malicious file detected in a library.

Files in OneDrive for Business with one detected as malicious

Although the blocked file is still listed in the document library and web, mobile, or desktop applications, the blocked file cannot be opened, copied, moved, or shared. People can, however, delete a blocked file. Here’s an example of what that looks like on a user’s mobile device:

Deleting a blocked file from OneDrive for Business from the OneDrive mobile app

Depending on how Microsoft 365 is configured, people might or might not have the ability to download a blocked file. Here’s what downloading a blocked file looks like on a user’s mobile device:

Downloading a blocked file in OneDrive for Business

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Ctrl+Alt+Shift+1 Microsoft Teams

18 Monday May 2020

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If you are losing your connection during screen sharing.

Or Microsoft Teams Client crashes and restarts automatically.

You will need to view the Microsoft Teams debug logs to troubleshoot the issues. Or if you are the End User, this is how to get the logs to send to your Support Engineers to troubleshoot..

Open Microsoft Teams, and on your keyboard, select Ctrl+Alt+Shift+1

You will see these files in your downloads folder;

In another post, I will walk you through each log file and how to read it .. Stay tuned.

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Announce when callers join or leave could be noisy if thousands are attending

30 Thursday Apr 2020

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In a Live Event, with thousands of attendees, joining and leaving … if we keep this option “On” .. “Announce when callers join or leave”, it will be difficult to hear the presenter.

Here is how to disable it without going to Microsoft Teams Admin Center; in the meeting click, Meeting options; and besides “Announce when callers join or leave”; mark it as “No”.

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Who really attended and who left in the middle … Microsoft Teams Live Event

18 Saturday Apr 2020

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The previous post, I showed you how to get an excel file with the list of attendees.. here I want to talk to you about the values of this excel file..

Basically, I was testing with my husband 🙂

The column header called “Action” has the status whether;

  • Joined,
  • Left
  • Reconnected
  • …..

Where you can filter this excel file and have an understanding of how people are participating all the time in the event.

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How to have a list of attendees in a Microsoft Teams Live Event

18 Saturday Apr 2020

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So I like to be straight to the point… Open Teams, on the left, click Calendar, choose the live event, click it..

You will see a section called “Live Event Resources” where you can download the recording and the attendees engagement report. and Voila!

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