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By: Parita Kanevskiy - Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP, Dawn Sheridan - Thompson Coburn LLP and Cindy Foellmer - Sidley Austin LLP Templates are the foundation of so many things within our firms. Repeatable items deserve a template or automation, when possible. With Microsoft Teams, you can have templates and automation! Because Teams is built on SharePoint online, we can take advantage of its capabilities to create a sustainable template. Once the lists are created, add them as tabs in your Teams site for easy access. Review and Discuss Current State Take some time to review your current state. What do you like about your current processes? ...

Summary of Microsoft Teams Webinar Series, Part 2 In early 2020, ILTA and Microsoft delivered an eight-part Webinar series focused on Microsoft Teams. These eight sessions were among our most popular educational programs for 2020. Consequently, we worked with Microsoft to develop a second Teams series, taking a deeper dive on some of the topics with the greatest attendance and most questions. Our second series ran in late 2021 and early 2022. The topics were as follows: There’s No Going Back: Complex Hybrid Work in a Microsoft environment The Brave New Work of Compliance in a Teams Environment Teams: Your Phone ...

OneNote! What is it Good For? Absolutely…. Well, Quite a Bit. OneNote remains a mystery to some lawyers. Some folks just can't translate the concept of a three-ring binder from the real world to the virtual. However, those that can find the software transformational. "When lawyers unfamiliar with OneNote join the team, they say, 'Wow, I can't believe how well -organized all this information is and how fast and easily I can find and edit it .... I organize my job-and my life around OneNote. I really couldn't function without it." - John Gartman, Principal at Fish & Richardson Take that concept of the three-ring binder, now expand that mental ...

For those of you who utilize WSUS as your main method of updating your firm's computers, be aware of the "Dual Scan" capabilities of Windows 10 b1607 and later. I was not aware of this "new feature" that MS built into Win10, and it started causing me some grief yesterday... We are a VDI shop using VMware Horizon View. We leverage linked-clones heavily as it helps us manage our systems easier, and keeps storage use considerably lower. We perform updates to our base image 1-2 times per month using WSUS, and keep Windows Updates disabled on the linked-clone. We've been using this method for years and have never had any issues. Our current build is 1607 Enterprise, ...

ILTA will be having the 9 th annual SharePoint Symposium on May 22 & 23. In many ways, it is like the Symposium is coming home! This year, it will be back in Chicago where the Symposium began as a real grassroots movement. The topics for the symposium were generated this year from an ILTA peer teleforum. One of the hottest questions is who is doing SharePoint in the cloud using Office 365? Come, listen to firms and vendor experts talk about challenges, wins and how to gain value in your SharePoint environment! For more information about the SharePoint Symposium, please visit the Symposium website: http://sharepoint.iltanet.org/home?_ga=1.54661483.1533748993.1459866978&ssopc=1 ...

By Ed Jorczyk , DIrector of Information Technology , Bowman and Brooke LLP and Josh Lazar , Director of Information Technology, Community Legal Services of Mid-Florida The release of the Windows Anniversary Update further fine tunes Windows 10, adding some new features and addressing some pain points. Let’s take a look at the stages of deploying Windows 10 and give you some things to consider. One of the first things to determine is your upgrade path. Moving to Windows 10 and Office 2016 is probably not a big move if you’re on Windows 7 and Office 2010/2013. In our experience, the main challenge is not with the OS upgrade along, but a change to a later ...