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Microsoft Teams is one of the latest and fastest growing applications included in Office 365. Microsoft has already announced they’ll be replacing Skype with the Teams application. With MS Teams Communicate in the moment and keep everyone in the know. Stay connected with chat, calls, and meetings within your team and in private or small group conversations. Schedule and join online Skype meetings with HD video, VoIP, and dial-in audio conferencing options. Share your files, apps or desktop in online meetings and review the important moments later with transcriptions of recorded content. Have a dedicated phone number for placing and receiving domestic and international phone calls, with advances features including voicemail, transfer, delegation and emergency calling (e911). Unlike Skype, it’s very easy to integrate other applications and tools into Teams making it a great place to build your organization and stay connected. Following sections outlines key security ...

Microsoft has discontinued DIRSYNC and directory synchronisation tool. Instead they have released Azure AD. I have provided insight into  Azure D Connect for those who didn’t know. Azure AD Connect is a bridge solution between an organisation’s on-prem Active Directory instance and cloud-based Azure Active Directory. AD Connect enables IT admins to federate on-prem user identities to the Azure platform. Actually, it’s a good way to enable single sign-on (SSO) without having to set up an Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS) instance. So, for Microsoft-focused organisations’, this concept of an identity bridge solution, which is very much like the concept of Google Cloud Directory Sync (formerly called Google Apps Directory Sync, GCDS or GADS), makes a lot of sense. So how does Azure AD Connect and Azure AD fit in with the rest of Microsoft’s strategy for Active Directory? Microsoft’s strategy with Azure Active Directory hasn’t been to deliver it as a cloud-based replaceme...