Microsoft Teams

Microsoft Teams Commercial Cloud Trial offer

The Microsoft Teams Commercial Cloud Trial is replaced by Microsoft Teams Exploratory beginning in January 2020. To learn about this new offer, read Manage Teams Exploratory license.

The Microsoft Teams Exploratory experience lets users in your organization who have Azure Active Directory (AAD) and are not licensed for Teams initiate an exploratory experience of Teams. Admins can switch this feature on or off for users in their organization. The earlier Microsoft Commercial Cloud Trial is now replaced by The Teams Exploratory experience.

Who's eligible?

As long as the user has a managed AAD domain email address and currently does not have/haven't been assigned a Teams license, they are eligible for this experience. For example, if a user has Office 365 Business (which doesn't include Teams), they're eligible for the Teams Exploratory experience.

How users sign up for the Teams Exploratory experience

Eligible users can sign up for the Teams Exploratory experience by signing in to Teams (teams.microsoft.com). They will be assigned this license automatically and the tenant admin will receive an email notification the first time someone in your org starts the Teams Exploratory experience.

Differences between Microsoft Teams and Microsoft Teams free

	Microsoft Teams free	Microsoft Teams
Features
Maximum members	500,000 per org	Potentially  unlimited  with an  enterprise  license
File storage	2 GB/user and 10 GB  of shared storage	1 TB/user
Guest access
1:1 and group online  audio and video calls
Channel meetings
Screen sharing
Scheduled meetings
Meeting recording		Available with  MS Stream
Phone calls and audio  conferencing
Administration
Admin tools for managing  users and apps
Usage reporting for  Office 365 Services
99.9% financially-backed  SLA uptime
Configurable user  settings and policies

More info and sources: Microsoft Support website, Microsoft Docs

Microsoft Office 2010 end of support

Office 2010 will reach its end of support on October 13, 2020. If you haven't already begun to upgrade your Office 2010 environment, we recommend you start now.

Also, support for Windows 7 ends on January 14, 2020. Even though Office 2010 is still supported until October, Windows 7 will no longer receive security updates after January 2020, unless you purchase Extended Security Updates (ESU). Without ESU, Windows 7 is vulnerable to security threats. For more information, see the Windows 7 end of support site and Lifecyle FAQ-Extended Security Updates.

What does end of support mean?

Office 2010, like almost all Microsoft products, has a support lifecycle during which we provide bug fixes and security fixes. This lifecycle lasts for a certain number of years from the date of the product's initial release. For Office 2010, the support lifecycle is 10 years. The end of this lifecycle is known as the product's end of support. When Office 2010 reaches its end of support on October 13, 2020, Microsoft will no longer provide the following:

• Technical support for issues
• Bug fixes for issues that are discovered
• Security fixes for vulnerabilities that are discovered
• Because of the changes listed above, we strongly recommend that you upgrade as soon as possible.

What are my options?

With Office 2010 reaching its end of support, this is a good time to explore your options and prepare an upgrade plan to either of these latest versions of Office:

Office 365 ProPlus, the subscription version of Office that comes with most Office 365 enterprise plans.

Office 2019, which is sold as a one-time purchase and available for one computer per license.

A key difference between Office 365 ProPlus and Office 2019 is that Office 365 ProPlus is updated on a regular basis, as often as monthly, with new features. Office 2019 only has the same features that it had when it was released in October 2018.

source and more reading: Microsoft

Clutter for Outlook is being retired

As announced in MC173616, Feb 2019, the Clutter feature from Outlook will be retiring beginning January 31, 2020. To help users manage their mail and be productive, Focused Inbox experience which provides a similar benefit as Clutter by showing less important and urgent mail in Other.

MS Outlook: Sync Issues folder; Where and what is it?

What is the Sync Issues folder? Where is that folder located?This exists if you are using an Exchange account,the Outlook Hotmail Connector add-in or Office365 connector. In all cases, the Sync Issues folder is located in Outlook itself.

Folder List navigation

You should probably be in the Mail Navigation. To see the folder, you’ll need to switch to the Folder List Navigation. To get there, use the Navigation icons in the Navigation Pane, the Go menu or by pressing CTRL+6 on your keyboard.

Subfolders of Sync Issues

The main synchronization log is kept in the Sync Issues folder. The actual items involved are kept in subfolders called;

• Conflicts
• Local Failures
• Server Failures

When an item is in such a folder, it means its changes either could not be uploaded or download or the same item got edited on two separate locations at the same time.

Verify and move before emptying the folders

If you still need the items which are listed there, verify if they still exist in your mailbox and also exist on the server by using Outlook Web Access when using an Exchange account or Windows Live Hotmail if you are using the Outlook Connector.
If they are not, then you can move the item to a folder of choice and see if the changes get uploaded now. If everything is in order, you can cleanup the Sync Issues folder if you want.

Source: MSOutlook.info