The Problem

Many times, customers reach out to know more about Excel workbooks. Presently, SharePoint online offers a script editor or content editor to make users display Excel workbooks in an iframe. It is quite possible to write a jquery code within the script web part and dynamically set the excel workbook to iframe’s src. This comes with an issue that continuously displays the O365 Global Suite Navigation bar of the Excel web app. There was no way to hide that with the help of CSS or jquery while loading Excel web parts dynamically until the following solution came up.

The Solution

The solutions use Excel Web Access Web part and list view web part. These two web parts are connected So the list view web part sends the URL to view into the Excel Web Access Web part with a filter via the JSLink. The steps to follow are as follows:

1. Create a Document Library and a View named MyExcelFileView. Add various fields including “Created By”
2. Create a web part page (You can also use any existing Wiki page), edit it, and add 2 web parts.
3. Upload javascript files to the SiteAssets library.
4. Edit List view web part. Under Miscellaneous option, set JSLink;
5. Set desired Appearance layouts and select what to display. The field “Created by” must be a part of the view
6. All the workbooks of the logged-in user will be filtered.
7. While the page is in Edit mode, you need to add Excel Web Access web part from Business Data
   1. Goto Connections> Get Workbook Url from -> A popup will load. Select Field Name “Document URL” and save the excel web part.
   2. Uncheck the box “Title Bar”
   3. Save Web part, page and publish

You can now see excel is already loaded in the excel web part.

MachPanel Automation Platform for Microsoft CSP

MachPanel is an end-to-end business management platform that offers provisioning and management of M365 services. It supports CSPs with Microsoft Security requirements for the Secure Application Model for CSP Integration. With MachPanel, CSPs can offer SharePoint offerings, Exchange Online offerings, and Deliver the goods with smooth M365 provisioning. With MachPanel, you can bring more bangs for the buck and experience simplified licensing, simplified billing process. It is easier to showcase, bundle, and sell. It also offers complete control over subscription and plans.

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Open the EAC and go to Office 365 > Recipients > Migration. Then Click the Add+ button and select the option “Migrate from Exchange Online”. From the Select Users Page and Add+. Now you can add the users from Exchange Online users that you wish to migrate to the on-premises setup within the organization. Click OK and Next.

Next, on the Confirm Migration End-point, make sure you verify the FQDN of on-premises Exchange server. Next, you’ll have to create a new name for the migration batch and add a target database.

For expert consultation and support, contact a MachSol expert and get details on automatically completing the migration batch.

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Microsoft Teams define modern business Collaboration

Companies going on with Skype for Business have been actively finding answers to Skype for Business vs. Teams in terms of costs, pricing, and migration. Microsoft Teams offers various features like:

• Persistent chat: Persistence chat which is retained in the form of chat logs for as far as you need.
• Group chat: You can always add multiple contacts to a chat and make it a group chat.
• Meetings feature: Meetings can be hosted via phone. This feature includes background blur option, live captions, meeting recording capabilities, whiteboard masking and much more
• Integration with SharePoint: Teams is native to Office 365 or Microsoft 365. Thus, all Major O365 apps can be integrated into Teams. You can edit files in Word and Excel on the go and collaborate on Teams at the same time.
• Guest Access: Want to connect to users who aren’t on Teams yet? You can grant them a Guest Access so they can access files and messages from your project team.

Getting started with Teams Direct Routing

Since Skype for Business end of life is nearing soon, you should know which options to opt for Teams. If you are on Skype already, chances are that you’d already have an O365 license. You are halfway through in your journey towards Calling in Teams or Teams Direct Routing. Microsoft has already made a plan for smooth and decent migration.

Related: SKYPE FOR BUSINESS IN SHUTTING DOWN – MARK YOUR CALENDARS AS MICROSOFT MAKES THE MOVE

MachPanel automation module for Microsoft Skype for Business

MachPanel provides all the necessary tools for business automation. It is equipped with major tools and cloud-based services for better management and provisioning. Its automation module for Microsoft Skype for Business provides Complete Orchestration for Hosted Skype for Business Service Providers and Enterprises. It offers a complete Enterprise Voice and flexibility and control to manage clients.

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Microsoft 365 and Dynamics 365 can provide a more powerful and rich business collaboration experience for a standard unification of processes to provide comprehensive, more secure, and more efficient customer handling.

How can Dynamics 365 customer engagement be enhanced with Office 365 integration?

There are multiple ways to make the most out of both Microsoft products. Combining benefits of office 365 for business and Dynamics 365 customer engagement can create a more powerful resource for your business.

• Better interactions with customers

With Office 365 and Dynamics 365, salespeople within the company can handle customers and take actions on important data seamlessly. The overall efficiency of the system working together reduces response time for the customers and results in better customer responses.

• Time-saving in-app switching

App switching costs the business, especially the sales department, a lot but it is often left ignored. With Office 365 + Dynamics 365 combo, you get to save time with less app switching and thus improve productivity. A disconnected system always leads to unproductive business operations. Thus with Microsoft 365 and Dynamics 365 integration, redundant administrative tasks are avoided.

• Improved collaboration and communication

Using Dynamics 365, you can get a broadened view of Organizational visibility. Office 365 and Dynamics 365 integration results in a one-window where all the major and important information regarding any project and its customers is compiled. This way, the sales team can be clear on the internal matters within the company on the specified subject.

• Easy reporting

Integration between Office 365 and Dynamics 365 comes in handy while companies struggle for easy and streamlined reporting. With this approach, you can expect a free flow of data within the entire company for better growth and overall productivity.

• Improved user adoption

Since the sales team can get their hands on relevant information with convenience. The best part is: it requires no additional training. With this, the sales team can get better insights from customer’s data and provide better user adoption of the company’s services.

ALSO READ: 5 processes to automate for better Microsoft CSP productivity

MachPanel Automation Module for Microsoft Dynamics 365 & CRM

MachPanel is your next up automation tool for a variety of dynamic services. Its Automation Module for Microsoft Dynamics 365 & CRM keeps all your billing and provisioning streamlined. In addition to the CRM Services on a hosted platform in the cloud, it provides features for CRM Organization creation/deletion, Enable/Disable CRM Organization, CRM organization/user/roles management, reporting, etc. which lets the organization make better business decisions and eases the amount of work needed for the purpose. With MachPanel, business productivity is bound to increase and so CSPs are able to scale up their cloud business like never before.

So, here’s your chance to get MachPanel with the best features at affordable rates for a better cloud business journey.

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Office 365 has come a long way

In reality, Office 365 is just more than just Word, PowerPoint, and Excel. It has become a lot more like a Project collaboration system enhancing business productivity with all the right tools in place. The apps are now equipped with AI and other cutting-edge innovations to give businesses a strong foundation to carry out their operations. The different Office 365 plans are there for companies of different sizes. The plans like Office 365 E1, Office 365 E3, Office 365 E5, and Office 365 subscriptions for Government and Education will remain unchanged under this rollout of changes in Microsoft 365.

The new changes facilitate the SME’s with newer subscription plans

At least, this is what Microsoft says officially. Microsoft has now evolved every module of O365 with cloud and AI, thus, providing modern SME’s with a lot of opportunities already. The Office 365 plans like ProPlus has been very popular with businesses and with the Addition of Teams into Office 365, they get a chance to host rich virtual meetings utilizing the cloud storage and other cutting-edge innovative components to make them do more with less.

Summary of changes

To cut the Long story short, here is a summary of the name changes:

• Office 365 Business Premium > Microsoft 365 Business Standard
• Office 365 Business > Microsoft 365 Apps for Business
• Office 365 ProPlus > Microsoft 365 Apps for Enterprise
• Office 365 Business Essentials > Microsoft 365 Business Basic
• Microsoft 365 Business > Microsoft 365 Business Premium

Also Read: 5 processes to automate for better Microsoft CSP Productivity

MachPanel – the one-stop cloud automation Control Panel for productive business operations

MachPanel provides end-to-end automation Solutions for Microsoft Enterprise Applications & the Cloud. It’s the favorite Multi-Cloud Service Orchestration Platform for (Managed) Service Providers, Enterprises, and Governments to Automate and Manage On-Premise and Multi-Cloud end-to-end Service delivery. The various modules include the Automation module for Remote Desktop Services, Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft CSP, Microsoft Skype4B, Microsoft Hyper-V, Active Directory, Microsoft SharePoint, Microsoft Dynamics 365.

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Even today, Microsoft CSPs often experience an obstruction in cloud computing services business growth which leads to lesser margins. In order to increase business growth, it is important to highlight the processes that can be automated and are currently being carried out manually. Here, we highlight a few such processes that every Microsoft CSP must know to in order to automate for better business growth.

1. Changing margins due to change in Microsoft’s Prices

Let’s face it. We’ve all been in a situation where we think again on what sales price to quote to the customers for a better profit margin. It is due to the fact that Microsoft frequently changes its Azure and Office 365 cost prices, leaving every Microsoft CSP in confusion. For better revenue it is essential that your account manager is updated with the Microsoft’s latest pricing spreadsheets. Let’s say, a quote for a service can give you better margins in January but not the same good margin the next month! With manual checking, you’d need a huge team to just keep checking for the updates every now and then from Microsoft. The sane solution would be: Go for automation and change quotes accordingly for better profit margins.

2. ERP overload due to manual updation of License Quantities

A manual creation of new sales order each time a customer’s buys something from your business service, the ERP would stay sane for a couple of thousand orders but once your revenue stream goes up, by say 50 thousand USD, the process would become extremely laborious. In order to cater for that, every Microsoft CSP must assess new automation approaches to simplify complex tasks in your cloud computing services.

3. Invoicing your customers (The mess has just begun)

Even today some CSPs are going through manual invoicing, where you add the customers costs. Depending upon your setup, you might have another person handle the suppliers like Microsoft. These are two different jobs but have a huge impact on your business revenue if not done in harmony.

The person handling manual invoices must create invoices based on the billing system and calculate costs. Thu number of updates makes the process more messy depending upon the billing cycle for each customer. At the end, nobody is sure that the final invoice is exactly what it should be, since it is a manual generation.

4. Microsoft Cost Reconciliation and resulting Discrepancies in costs

The manual systems get more complicated when the business has to pay the supplier like Microsoft right away. You might notice after a few cycles that there is no reconciliation between the supplier invoice for a billing cycle and the customers’ payments for the same billing cycle. Since you can’t say no to a supplier (ever), your cloud computing services business suffers because of manual invoicing practice.

5. The struggle to deliver cost-transparency

Customers demand cost-transparency. That is not really possible if the data is managed manually. With a larger customer base, this is practically impossible without an automated approach.

ALSO READ: 3 ways MachPanel can boost your business profits

Fast-track your business with automaton processes with MachPanel

The process you are carrying out in a manual approach, surely hinder your business growth one day as your customer base grows. You should never let these manual processes impair your business productivity. It is therefore important to synchronization and consolidation between business systems and processes. Adopting business process automation services is the key to solve this problem.

MachPanel provides you all the necessary tools and an integrated platform to automate your cloud business through a pool of business process automation services. With integrated invoicing, automated billing and different automation modules for business productivity like Microsoft SharePoint, Microsoft Exchange, and Microsoft Skype for Business Server, Microsoft Work Folders, Microsoft Directory Sync, Microsoft Hyper V and Microsoft Dynamics 365, you get the required tools needed for a 365 degree business automating.

The icing on the cake: MachPanel Automation Platform for Microsoft CSP

With this module, you can fully automate and manage entire lifecycle of your Direct and Indirect CSP Business with MachPanel. You own and control the billing, along with the freedom to showcase bundle and sell integrated offers with a hybrid marketplace. The platform provides easy ways to Provision, Manage, support & Bill Microsoft CSP.

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Teams is great for Collaboration and Microsoft has put in good amount of effort for its security. The application is Layer D compliant which make it a promising and secure solution for large-grad enterprises and cloud business organizations.

More on certifications; Teams has got SO 27001, ISO 27018, HIPAA, SSAE16 SOC 1 and SOC 2, and EU Model Clauses (EUMC) to its name. Even though certification isn’t a feature that any application offers to its customers, but it is important in terms of cloud security.

Integration with other tools

Not only Teams is secure in itself; it is also easy to integrate it with other tools and still stay secure. Microsoft Teams Security is an important factor for Office 365 users, since MS Teams is built into O365, CSPs can easily change e-discovery settings from Security & Compliance admin center for better cloud security.

Redundancy (for the sake of Legal Proceedings)

Admins can configure Microsoft Teams with “Legal Hold”, which means Microsoft will retain a copy of every type of data even after the original author deletes it, in order to be able to present the data in an evidence for the court of law. Looks like, you’ve got to stay on point while collaborating, at all times!

Data Location and Backups

Microsoft Teams Security is very organized in terms of data. The exact location of your data is not disclosed, but you can be sure it’s somewhere around you. MS Teams supports data location is Americas, EMEA, and APAC region. Your data will mostly be residing local. However, if there is a storm coming from the west coast and your data is residing there, it’ll be shifted to the east coast HD centers without user intervention.

Privacy

Microsoft Ensures its customers that, Microsoft Teams security has got same privacy regulations as are persistent in Office 365. The data isn’t controlled by Microsoft in any manner and not scanned either. Even the content uploaded or shared in Teams and other products like One Drive for Business, SharePoint Online etc. isn’t accessed by Microsoft.

ALSO READ: Make Most out of Microsoft Teams

MachPanel and Automation Platform for Microsoft CSPs

If you are a CSP having your own cloud business or if you resell Microsoft Products, MachPanel is your next best friend. MachPanel is a full-fledged Multi-Cloud Service Orchestration & Delivery Platform (MSOP).  With this, you can cover up all your cloud business needs like Showcase Bundle & Sell; get End to End Automation, Own & Control the billing. MachPanel is the best end-to-end business management platform that you can get your hands on and it’ll take you to a good Business direction.

Now you know it, get your hands on MachPanel for a substantial support towards your cloud business and get ready for substantial business growth.

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TLS and the Cloud

Now Microsoft has decided to turn down support for TLS 1.0 for Office 365 and here’s the real news for CSPs.  Starting 1^st June, 2020 ( oh yes, less than a year left),  Office 365 is retiring TLS 1.0 and 1.1 (Better perform your TLS version check and get to know your office 365 TLS port today!). The much promised change is going to be implemented for sure this time and all you CSPs out there, it’s high time to upgrade many applications at your end in order to keep things going smooth.  Here’s a list of things that won’t be supported from now on, so, for better cloud security, you need to keep an eye if your organization is still using it:

• Firefox version 5.0 and earlier versions
• Android 4.3 and earlier versions
• Internet Explorer 10 on Windows Phone 8
• Safari 6.0.4/OS X10.8.4 and previous versions
• Internet Explorer 8-10 on Windows 7 and earlier versions

Additionally, Microsoft Teams Room app version 4.0.64.0 or later must be used for conferencing. For Skype for business Server, Skype for Business Server 2015 CU9 (released May 2019) and Skype for Business Server 2019 CU1 (released July 2019) should be deployed organization-wide.

Regarding Infrastructure changes, it is essential to use TLS 1.2 for all inbound and outbound connections in case of on-premises infrastructure for hybrid solutions or ADFS. There are many guides and a detailed whitepaper out there for a deep understanding on phasing out TLS 1.0 and TLS 1.1 from your organization.

MachPanel and Automation Module for Microsoft CSP

Whether you wish to manage lifecycle of your Direct and Indirect CSP Business or automate it successfully, MachPanel does it for you smoothly. The Automation module for Microsoft CSP is designed to make sure CSPs get all the assistance they need for a fully automated Cloud business. MachPanel also takes into account the Microsoft enhancements on weak protocols and the experts at MachSol are more than ready to guide you against attacks like POODLE and others like GOLDENDOODLE. With MachPanel, you can do much with less from a single user friendly interface like control the billing, showcase, bundle and sell your products, monitor business progress with a BI Dashboard and much more. The experts at MachPanel can also guide you through your office 365 TLS port checking and TLS version check.

Stick around for more updates and get your business equipped with MachPanel, for a safer and updated Cloud business.

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Live broadcasts are very beneficial for businesses where ongoing events are a commonplace. Hosting live events facilitate the marketing aspects of business. People get to know more about your products and services and the customers can benefit from useful information regarding their subscribed services.

What is a Microsoft Teams Channel?

Since team is group of people who come together to get some work done, this can be a task, project, or maintenance of whole system, it is made up of Channels. Channels are your interactions with your teammates which includes conversations on a specific topic, project or department. Your teammates actually get the work done on a dedicated channel. You can have audio and video conversations, share files, add apps and much more to get the project completed.

How to broadcast live event for Microsoft Teams all members

For a Live event broadcast where you wish to tag Microsoft teams all members via a suitable Microsoft Teams channel, it is necessary to have an Office 365 License. Then, you can go for the Live event in a few clicks as described in following steps:

• Go to Meeting Tab and press “New Meeting”
• From the drop-down menu choose the option New Live Event
• Every Live event has to have some information related to the event, you need to fill up the form and mention the Title of the event, Location of the event and a few other details related to the event
• There is an option to set your event to be public to be shared with audience outside of your office 365 tenant or you can make it private to be shared with only Microsoft Teams all members
• Generate link to your live event as a presenter and share the link so that the audience can join your event.

A Live event can bring big business and be beneficial for in-house Microsoft Teams all members for a progressive project and, in a broader sense, cloud business.

ALSO READ: A look into Upgrading from Skype4B Online to Microsoft Teams

MachPanel Automation module for Microsoft CSPs and Microsoft Skype4B

MachPanel is a robust cloud automation platform where all your business needs are found in a unified manner. With this modern Control Panel, CSPs can automate their entire business lifecycle and manage lifecycle of their Direct or Indirect Partners. With this, CSPs are empowered to Showcase Bundle & Sell their products and Own & Control the billing. With a Hybrid Marketplace and other features like Complete Usage Calculations bird eye view, Packaging and Bundling with customized Margins, Automated subscription & Recurring Billing with Payment Processing and many other features, MachPanel is the number one choice for CSPs globally. CSPs can resell Microsoft Skype for Business Online services under MachPanel CSP program. Since Skype4B is the next up successor of Teams, CSPs opt to offer Skype for Business Services Online to stay in line with the current trends in cloud computing space.

MachPanel also provides Microsoft Skype for Business Server On-premises services. It has gained popularity all over the business space for Business Communication. MachPanel offers Hosted Skype for Business features like Enterprise Voice, Billing, Reporting, Dial Plans, Response Groups, Phone Numbers and Persistent Chat. It is a complete Enterprise Voice Solution. It offers centralized management for Providers, Resellers and Customers.

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SharePoint Sever

Microsoft aims to add support on Azure Stack for running SharePoint Server 2019 or SharePoint Server 2016. It would be Microsoft’s Azure “datacenter in a box”. So, it’ll be possible for SharePoint Server 2019 users to use Azure SQL Database Managed Instance. With this, businesses opting for Microsoft Cloud will be able to move applications to the cloud while making use of a compatible Database Solution

SharePoint Spaces

The hype of SharePoint Spaces is ignited since it is a technology with a rich user experience with mixed reality, a way of constructing 3-D SharePoint Online sites. After its announcement in last year’s SharePoint conference, many companies headed to gain access to the limited preview. This looks promising and more information on SharePoint Spaces is expected at the Microsoft Ignite event, this year in November. This was also mentioned in the SharePoint summit 2019 that was of interest to CSPs running cloud businesses.

Home Sites

SharePoint home sites are new landing pages for Employees. These are built on top of Communication Sites and used for a broader communication across the organization. In a home site, the official news

Security and Compliance

So, the latest announcement goes that there are multi-geo capabilities in order to make sure the data is properly residing with all the needed requirements. These capabilities are now shared with SharePoint and Office 365 Groups. There are many other Management related upgrades announced, like the SharePoint Migration tool has a SharePoint Server 2013 site migration capability* SharePoint migration capability), SharePoint Admin Center having the ability to display modern and classic SharePoint management views and also getting the capability to rename the URLs used for SharePoint sites. For Microsoft 365 Compliance portal, there is a new capability where Organizations are able to set document retention periods and a classifier capability which utilizes machine learning techniques to distinguish between content for filtration. The announcements were made public in this year’s SharePoint summit 2019.

There were many other announcements in the SharePoint summit 2019 regarding Yammer, OneDrive for Business, Developer Perks, Microsoft Search and Microsoft Stream.

ALSO READ: Microsoft SharePoint Server 2019

MachPanel and Automation module for Microsoft SharePoint

MachPanel is trusted globally for its unsurpassed Cloud Automation services for businesses.  It provides services for hosted SharePoint offering selling of sell Microsoft SharePoint Server 2019, 2016 and 2013 on cloud or as a Hosted Solution. MachPanel’s best-in-line turnkey services offer SharePoint Migration, along with SharePoint design, deployment, planning, reliability and scalability. MachPanel experts provide services related to Microsoft SharePoint 2019 and other versions. The easy Billing and helpdesk make every process streamlined for your cloud business.

Stick around for more MachPanel updates and get your hands on MachPanel for a smooth flow of Microsoft services in a super friendly manner for your cloud business.

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