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Keeping Track of Last Modified Documents in SharePoint 2013

Using SharePoint documents library can be quite challenging sometimes. Especially when it comes down to following what is going on. For that there are a few tricks that can be used in order to know what are the new documents published or modified. Alerting First thing is that you can be alerted on most things in SharePoint.

3 Major Issues Caused by SCOM for IT Professionals

The energy last year at the Microsoft Management Summit was just incredible, and the new release of SCOM seemed to be really impressive…At first glance. SCOM is still the same. It’s powerful. It can manage many different capabilities and it’s a part of the System Center suite.

Top Ways to Check Your Microsoft Office 365 Health

Whenever a user complains about slowness in accessing a mailbox, IT administrators often suspect it’s due to an issue with the network. Still, they don’t always have enough information to confirm this. To confirm the issue, admins will check with other users to see if they’re facing the same issue. Then they’ll try to access Google to confirm the speed of the Internet, and ping outlook.office365.com to check if there is any packet loss.

Ensuring Teams Performance when it's OneDrive, SharePoint and Exchange Under The HoodBy Nick Cavalancia, Microsoft MV

It has become the backbone of many organizations, where conference calls, meetings, collaboration, and sharing all take place. This dependency makes it a critical application that requires consistent optimal performance to effectively maintain user productivity. For most Microsoft 365 applications, monitoring performance of a service like Exchange Online revolves around Exchange-related services, logs, etc. With Teams however, ensuring optimal performance proves to be a more complex task, and even more so when utilizing native tools.

5 Stars on Gartner for Microsoft 365 Digital Experience Monitoring

IT executives, operators, and administrators can quickly assess end-user availability and performance experience based on Microsoft 365 services’ critical data from end-to-end monitoring. This eases their day-to-day tasks by reliable reporting data, troubleshooting information, and end user experience for their Microsoft 365 services.

Provide instant support for employees using Virtual Agent within Microsoft Teams

Employees in an organization expect instant support and turnaround to their issues when they contact the internal helpdesk. To facilitate this, companies invest a significant amount of time and money to build and implement self-service portals. But this makes little or no impact on the self-service adoption numbers. This is because self-service portals are still external to employees. It’s difficult for employees to remember the tool or the access URL to reach out for help.

Fast-track bulk Microsoft 365 object creation with M365 Manager Plus

User account creation is a long-winded process that involves various configurations. Such a tiresome, manual process is naturally prone to errors, especially while creating user accounts in bulk. Errors made in the user provisioning process will result in frustrated users calling the service desk to request permission to access resources, to be added to the appropriate groups, to update missing profile details, etc. Why provisioning users through the Admin Center is inefficient.