Microsoft adds integration with new third-party apps to Teams – Computer – News

I just wanted to time that, 9 seconds here. How you can make it 5 minutes even with a rotating disk is a mystery to me. Everything that Microsoft provides is manageable in detail by the system administrator, whether it is Windows, Office, O365, Skype for Business or Teams because large companies need it. For example, in a large company you do not want everyone to start creating team groups themselves, with 20,000 employees you are left with a soup that nobody can get rid of after 2 weeks. Other companies do not want you to be able to exchange files with external parties for fear of data leaks. Or they do not want external parties to be able to chat with someone from the company, seems quite logical to me that the CEO of a multinational does not just want to receive chat messages from you or me. Or they want all conversations to remain exclusively within the domain of the company (whereby external parties log in to a kind of spirit Team instead of their own Teams).

Since you are still on rattling hard disks, it sounds more like an employer who thinks every penny of ICT is 1 too much and then of course also saves on personnel. That has probably been working for some time with a domain that has been completely screwed up, group policies that no cat can get rid of, ditto with rights structures. That is then dependent on Azure because it seems that it is even cheaper with an on-premise Skype 4 Business where no one can get out of it yet, whereby Teams is rolled out in which the transition phase (where everything underlying is still running on Skype) but one cannot out of that transition phase because people cannot transfer that chaos.

Well, then you can complain to Microsoft whatever you want, which is exactly why once you are fully on Teams you can no longer run this on premise. Microsoft has learned from the Skype for Business story where it was impossible to support this where all the different customers want to talk to each other, but one was 5 years behind, the other was chaos and if those 2 were not decent wanted to talk to each other, it was Microsoft’s fault because Skype went nowhere.

Either you get an Enterprise tool where you can manage down to the smallest detail or you go to a consumer tool where everything is decided for you and you have to follow. But if you manage yourself, you have to see that you keep things in order because otherwise you will end up in dramas, guaranteed.

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