Author: Ian Drew

Embedding PowerApps in Office and Beyond

You now have more options for deploying your canvas apps into Office and other applications. You can embed apps, so your end users can easily find and interact with them. SharePoint webparts now supports PowerApps and you can set custom sizes of your apps for an even more customized experience across all embedding scenarios.

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Teams Now Captures Compliance Records for Hybrid and Guest Users – Petri

Capturing Compliance Data Since January
Neatly aligned with the need for better compliance mandated by GDPR, Microsoft announced on June 1 that they have been collecting compliance records for messages sent by on-premises users in personal chats since January 31, 2018. Microsoft says that they are working to create compliance records for chats before this date but cannot commit to when this data might be available.

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Sonos Beam Soundbar: Price, Details, Release Date | WIRED

The Sonos Beam is a new $399 soundbar, but to Sonos, it’s a heck of a lot more than just a speaker that sits under your television. It’s a fabric-wrapped representation of how Sonos sees the future—one in which all the voice assistants from Apple and Google and Amazon can live next to one another.

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Microsoft To-Do Picks Up List Sharing and Steps – Thurrott.com

Microsoft To-Do for iPhone, Android, Windows and the web is picking up some new functionality this week: The ability to collaborate and share lists, and to break down tasks into smaller steps or sub-tasks.

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Understanding External Access to Documents in an Office 365 Tenant (Part 2) – Petri

Understanding Office 365 Sharing

In part 1 of this series, we explore how document sharing occurs within Office 365 and how to use two cmdlets in the SharePoint Online PowerShell module to understand with whom outside the tenant we share documents.

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Fire TV Cube is What Happens When Amazon Combines Fire TV and Echo – Thurrott.com

“We believe voice makes it easier for customers to control their entertainment systems and watch the TV and movies they care about,” Amazon Fire TV VO Marc Whitten said in a prepared statement. “And, it’s just the beginning. Amazon Fire TV Cube will only get better over time with the Alexa service always getting smarter.”

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Deal to be inked for Solomon Islands undersea internet cable Australia stopped China building – Politics – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

It is the 4,000-kilometre cable that Canberra did not want Beijing to build.

But today, Australian and Solomon Islands officials will sign up to the first stage of a multi-million-dollar contract to sink an undersea high speed internet link between the impoverished Pacific nation and the Australian mainland.

via Deal to be inked for Solomon Islands undersea internet cable Australia stopped China building – Politics – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

Here is how to integrate Firefox with Windows Group Policy

Mozilla has shipped the support for Windows Group Policy Support. Firefox 60 is the next Extended Support Release of Firefox browsers releases which replaces Firefox ESR 52.x. Firefox ESR 52.x is the last official version of Firefox that will be supporting the old extensions system. It is rather surprising that Mozilla made Firefox 60 the next ESR target instead of Firefox 59.

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