Review: Microsoft Teams application

TL;DR: Watch this - https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/videoplayer/embed/RE1LGec?pid=ocpVideo0-innerdiv-oneplayer&postJsllMsg=true&maskLevel=20&market=en-us

New Way for Team Productivity

If you haven't already watched Microsoft announce its new application for team collaboration called Microsoft Teams, then I strongly recommend checking it out. At first, I thought this will compete against Slack. After watching the full demo however, I easily can envision how this tool will replace email. (This is where Slack is slacking - in promoting their tools as the new business tool for all professionals to get work done.) 

No longer will people communicate via email and manage work via email. No, people need to work faster and smoother instead of waiting to be driven by email conversations. So I think what Microsoft has done here is AMAZING! If a professional can maximize this application (office tool), then s/he will be a game changer at work.

Microsoft Teams - Demo

Microsoft Teams - Vision Promo (2016)

If you also take a look into their pricing plan with using Teams, then you'll see how this tool just makes better sense than continuing with email, email configuration and management, and email support.

Useful Links

• https://products.office.com/en-us/microsoft-teams/free
• https://products.office.com/en-us/microsoft-teams/group-chat-software
• aka.ms/SuccessWithTeams
• https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0--6byMAe9otLougDShhUw
• https://www.youtube.com/user/OfficeGarageSeries
• https://www.pcmag.com/article/349274/microsoft-teams-vs-slack-whats-the-difference

GitHub - Adjusting the Email Notifications

Devs,

I had a client project which I put all of their source code on my company's GitHub repo. However, my team was having some issues with the email notifications coming to our personal emails (from personal github accounts) instead of our company emails. So, here's how to resolve.

Reference for adjusting email notifications (when contracts require notifications only to work email)

https://help.github.com/articles/configuring-notification-delivery-methods/

• Log into your GitHub account.
• In the top right corner of any page, click the Settings icon.
• In the user’s Personal settings sidebar, click “Emails”.
• Add your Company's work email if you haven’t already.
• Click “Send verification email”.
• Log into your Company's email account.
• Verify the email sent from GitHub.
• Notice that you will need to either click on the link and sign back into GitHub, or copy/paste link into browser. Next, click “Confirm” next to added email.
• In the user’s Personal settings sidebar, click “Notification center”.
• Go down to section “Notification email”.
• In Custom routing subsection, edit your email for CompanyGitHubAdminUser repo to go to your Company work  email.
• Test and see. That should be successful!