The roadmap item still shows the rollout of hold reports scheduled for November, but imagine my surprise on Friday when I saw a new “Dashboard” section in the left-hand menu, which included a link to Hold Reports:
There is more detail in the announcement above, but the bottom line is this. You can get Defender and a range of e5 Purview tools for an additional $15 USD per month per user. With Business Premium costing $22 per month per user when paid annually, that’s a significant savings over a full E5 license if you have fewer than 300 users.
Teams channels can be confusing when you don’t have a plan in place for organizing them. Teams chats can get noisy when you don’t define the purpose of each group chat. Planner can be lacking when people don’t assign tasks properly. Loop and OneNote can become absolute chaos when there isn’t a process for note-taking and storage. As Mirko points out, SharePoint can become a junk drawer when things don’t have a defined location that everyone agrees upon.
That’s not a technology problem. That’s a human problem.
So, I have this new domain. It is also tied to an M365 tenant. After my 30-day trial period is up, I’ll have to decide whether I want to pay for the domain. I likely will, but those decisions would be a whole lot easier if we could get more paid subscribers. So, here’s the deal. For September, I will offer a 20% discount on new annual subscriptions. If you’ve ever been on the fence about subscribing for the whole year, now is as good a time as any!
Also, if your team would like a subscription, you can get 40% off a group (3 or more) annual subscription.
We may never know if Microsoft is delaying this in response to privacy concerns voiced by its customers, but we do know that many customers had strong reservations about this feature. Yet another thing for law firms and other industries where confidential information is discussed in meetings to be aware of.
Hosting the meeting yourself and using Copilot is safer. It is also more expensive. Blocking external attendees from adding a note-taking application might also be a good idea, which might seem rude.
I’d argue that adding an app to a meeting you’re not hosting without asking is also rude, but that’s just my opinion.
