r/Office365

An MSP gave me their working estimate from the field: 25 to 30% of Copilot licences go unused where the rollout arrived without enablement. Their number, not mine, and it matches what I walk into.

Warren Buffett put it well. "Price is what you pay. Value is what you get."

The licence is the price. The hours a person actually saves are the other half, and most businesses I meet can quote the first to the penny while having never measured the second.

Pull your licence report this week and count the seats with no activity in 30 days. That number is your real starting point.

We’re around 100 employees now, and keeping email signatures consistent across Outlook and Gmail has become more difficult than expected. different teams are using different versions, some details are outdated, and keeping branding, pronouns, legal text, and campaign links updated manually is becoming a regular chore.

I’m looking for a better way to manage this centrally so changes can be rolled out without having to update everyone’s signature individually.
Anyone here using a central email signature manager that doesnt suck to manage or break every other week? would love any tips or names to check out, thx

Logging into admin.microsoft.com this morning and the additional admin centers (such as Exchange, Identity, Sharepoint) are missing from the left menu?
Anyone else experiencing this?

An MSP gave me their working estimate from the field: 25 to 30% of Copilot licences go unused where the rollout arrived without enablement. Their number, not mine, and it matches what I walk into.

Warren Buffett put it well. "Price is what you pay. Value is what you get."

The licence is the price. The hours a person actually saves are the other half, and most businesses I meet can quote the first to the penny while having never measured the second.

Pull your licence report this week and count the seats with no activity in 30 days. That number is your real starting point.

I manage a teams of about 8 people.

I would like to be able to track vactions etc in an easy way.

For now we are using a teams channel calendar, which works fine but it has its limitaions as there is only a weekly overview not a monthly and every user needs to add their own thing so as it does not show up on my calander as well.

I tried to subscribe to the calandar via outlook, but it keeps dissapearing. i have the same result in teams.

i tried creating a teams channel that is also a group in outlook. But if you add something via outlook to the calendar it does not show up in teams, and if you create a new item via teams it invites the whole team....

i tried to just make a shared calendar in outlook and that works, but i cant find a way to add this to our teams channel. (everybody is used to this and it wouldn be easier if the did not need to change)

Unfortunatly i work at a huge company so i have to stay within the limuitions of office 365....

I’m considering using a Vendor called TeamVenti. They provide cloud-to-cloud transfer, copying, migration, and other related services. In my case, I would be copying data from one cloud environment to another.

They’ve asked for Global Administrator permissions on both the source and destination environments to perform the migration.

My question is: Is it normal or standard for a cloud migration company to require Global Administrator access on both sides?

Have there been cases where issues arose from giving a vendor this level of access, or am I being too paranoid?

A client (30 users) came to us with a requirement that sounds trivial and apparently isn't. They want ONE master company calendar holidays, on-call rotation, office closures, social events, pushed ONE-WAY into everyone's calendar, including native mobile apps. Read-only for staff, no subscriptions, no user action.

We've scoped the obvious options and ruled them out:
- ICS subscription: update lag runs hours to a full day, and it duplicated every event twice after source edits. Users stopped trusting it.
- Shared mailbox calendar: fine in Outlook desktop, unreliable visibility on phones.
- 'Add it to everyone's Teams calendar': not a thing.
- Power Automate copy flow: creates static copies that don't track source edits - stale data within a week.

Everything we find ends at 'subscribe to the ICS feed' or two-way sync tools, which fails the requirement, two-way means 30 users can fat-finger the company calendar. Before I quote them something: want to know what are you actually deploying for read-only, one-way calendar push (desktop + native iOS/Android) in 2026 that works well.

I’m a lawyer in my first year of practice, working remotely for a law firm. Over the past year, I followed various instructions from senior colleagues that were presented to me as legitimate professional tasks. I recently discovered that some of these instructions may have been connected to potentially fraudulent or criminal conduct, and I’m concerned that I could be implicated despite having acted without knowledge or intent.

I need to preserve my Teams conversations as evidence showing the instructions I received and the context in which I acted.

I don’t want to rely on screenshots or manually copied messages. I’m looking for a complete, auditable and traceable export, ideally preserving timestamps, participants, message IDs, edits/deletions, attachments and relevant metadata, with a way to demonstrate the integrity of the data afterward.

From what I understand, Microsoft Purview/eDiscovery may allow an administrator to do this. However, I’m concerned that asking the administrator—who may be closely connected to my supervisor—could raise suspicion before I understand my options.

Is there any legitimate way for an individual Teams user to preserve/export their own conversations in a forensically reliable manner without involving the company administrator?

If not, what is the technically best approach (Purview/eDiscovery, Graph API, or another method), and what should I preserve to establish authenticity and chain of custody?

I’m specifically looking for advice from Microsoft 365/Teams administrators, eDiscovery specialists, or digital-forensics professionals.

We have our on prem AD synced to 365, so naturally when you add a group membership on AD it syncs to 365 right. Well It’s not syncing for one user who shows a “synced from on-premises” status regardless of the fact that the group membership won’t update on 365, this issue is only happening for a handful of users. But, get this, know how you’ll get two users on 365, one being the main user and the other having an @Company.onmicrosoft.com username? The on prem settings are only syncing to the latter, instead of both the primary and secondary 365 profiles.

Any one experience a similar issue?

I purchased a Microsoft Office 365 subscription for my MacBook through Amazon. It worked fine for a few months, but now the subscription has been deactivated and I can’t use Office anymore.
The return/refund window on Amazon is already over, and the seller has disappeared from Amazon, so I have no way to contact them.
What can I do in this situation? Can Amazon still help with a refund or raise a complaint against the seller? Has anyone faced something similar?
Any advice on the best way to recover my money or resolve this would be appreciated.

Since the release of the last enterprise update, a lot of users at my company are reporting their excel is freezing repeatedly. I’ve tried online repair, windows updates, changing to current update channel, laptop drivers/bios updates. Nothing is sticking. Looking for advice on anything else to try.

Hi all,

Personally, as a civil engineer, I collect a lot of photos in my Notion or Obsidian. I use Heading Levels to annotate the photos, like "Reinforcements" "Wall Construction" etc, and put the relevant photos under that heading.

Now, we want to do it on our company, people collect photos in folders etc, but I don't like that. I haven't talked to IT yet, but inside Office 365, what might be the best way?

I don't think Onenote will be very good with 100 high quality photos.

Edit

My site photos are organized like this:

# Project X
## Construction Site
### Machinery
## Wall Construction

and so on.

The purpose is to find relevant photos. I organize my notes and photos like this. And i want to do same thing in Office 365.

What i've ruled out so far:

1. Not signing into multiple separate accounts, she has delegate access to a shared mailbox via "Open another mailbox," which uses her existing session, not a second login

2. Cleared cache/cookies — no change

3. Set her up with a fresh Chrome profile to rule out corruption, inconclusive so far, she prefers keeping her normal tab-based workflow

4. She doesn't want to use any other browsers

except chrome.

Anyone run into something similar or have other things worth checking before escalating for log access?

Hi all. Sorry if this is a silly question.

Basically the title.

We all use mac.

I was hoping the coloured "tags" mac lets you apply to an excel file would show for all all users but it does not. I could then mark our excel quote copies: green if won, red if lost, orange if pending. Nice easy way for our sales guys to know what needs to be followed up.

Is the easiest way to just add your own tag to the file name? eg. [X]_filename or something.