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ignite2019 Note: If you are looking for the script to download Ignite contents, you can find it at the TechNet Gallery or Github.

It shouldn’t be a surprise to you, but this is the week of Ignite 2019 in Orlando, where Microsoft and other speakers will not only tell you about the latest and greatest, and how to implement recent products and use their technologies, but also draw more of the roadmap of things to come. Unfortunately, I won’t be attending Ignite (again), but similar to last year Microsoft will be live streaming keynotes, breakouts as well as theater sessions. So, you can watch stuff as it happens in the comfort of your own home or on-demand at a later time.

To access the catalog, including live streams, you can of course dive in the 1981 sessions located on the Ignite portal. Details on sessions, speakers etc. as well as filtering options are already present to help you pick what to watch, and recorded media will be added as it becomes available, including slidedecks.

For your convenience, I made a short list of sessions on Exchange Server, related technologies such as Outlook Mobile but also Teams and Groups, as well as some potentially interesting IT Pros sessions on Graph:

Session	When	Title	Speakers
BRK2296	11/4/2019 2:15 PM	Communication in Microsoft 365: Outlook and Teams integration opportunities	Brandon Haist
THR2269	11/4/2019 3:00 PM	Using Microsoft Teams: What’s new and how to get started	Aya Tange, Jeremy Chapman
THR3039	11/4/2019 3:25 PM	What’s new in the Office Customization Tool	Chris Hopkins
BRK3095	11/4/2019 4:30 PM	Understanding the importance of collaboration in modern work and the role O365 plays to unlock your team?s productivity	Ronald Pessner, Patrick Gan, Dan Costenaro, Megan Dohnal
BRK2056	11/4/2019 4:30 PM	Embrace Office 365 Groups: What’s new and what’s next	Mike McLean, Venkat Ayyadevara
BRK2001	11/4/2019 4:30 PM	What’s amazing and new in calendaring in Outlook	Julia Foran
THR3084	11/4/2019 5:45 PM	Microsoft 365 admin: Ask us anything	Aaron Woo, Ben Appleby, Alice Appleton, Tim Heeney, Karissa Larson, Yeonsoo Kim
THR1131	11/4/2019 6:20 PM	The solution to intranet adoption…Microsoft Teams	Daniel Diefendorf
BRK3013	11/5/2019 9:00 AM	Modern Exchange IT admin experiences	Rahul Gupta, Eddie Savage
BRK1079	11/5/2019 10:15 AM	Five hybrid cloud backup and disaster recovery mistakes to avoid	Douglas Ko, Shawn Gifford, Carl Holzhauer, Julian Simpson
BRK3140	11/5/2019 10:15 AM	Notes from the field: Successfully steering the government to Office 365	Michael Van Horenbeeck
BRK3012	11/5/2019 10:15 AM	Exchange hybrid: Advanced scenarios, roadmap, and real-world stories!	Andy Ryan, William Holmes
THR2016	11/5/2019 10:20 AM	Outlook for Windows: What’s new and what’s next	David Gorelik
THR3082	11/5/2019 10:55 AM	Protect against phishing and other cyberthreats with Microsoft 365 Business	David Bjurman-Birr
THR3083	11/5/2019 12:40 PM	Office 365 Groups: Ask us anything	Mike McLean, Venkat Ayyadevara, Kolvekar Loveleen Ramachandra, Nivedita Rajani, Salil Kakkar, Arunkumaran Varadharajan
THR2252	11/5/2019 1:50 PM	How Microsoft manages its own employee Office 365 tenancy	David Haam, David Johnson, Darren Moffatt
ADM50	11/5/2019 2:00 PM	Managing across tenant boundaries in Office 365	Steve Silverberg, Robert Lowe
BRK2003	11/6/2019 9:00 AM	Get ahead with Outlook mobile: Intelligent technology that helps you stay on top of your day	Tali Roth, Michael Palermiti
MLS1035	11/6/2019 9:15 AM	Microsoft Graph 101 for developers and IT professionals	Yina Arenas, Jeremy Thake
THR3003	11/6/2019 10:55 AM	New, fast, and reliable Exchange Online PowerShell cmdlets	Tony Redmond
BRK3311	11/6/2019 11:30 AM	Outlook mobile: The gold standard for secure communications in the enterprise	Ross Smith, Lexi Torres
BRK2005	11/6/2019 12:45 PM	Outlook for Mac – re-invented!	Vivek Kumar, Alessio Roic
THR2270	11/6/2019 1:50 PM	Microsoft Teams for IT admins: What’s new and what you need to know with Anne Michels	Anne Michels, Jeremy Chapman
THR2007	11/7/2019 9:00 AM	Stop organizing your own meetings ? Let Scheduler do it for you	Warren Johnson
BRK3264	11/7/2019 10:15 AM	Transform collaboration and fight shadow IT with Office 365 groups	Arunkumaran Varadharajan, Sahil Arora
THR3033	11/7/2019 11:30 AM	Reading SMTP headers like a boss	Jeff Guillet
BRK2059	11/7/2019 11:30 AM	Data residency with Office 365 datacenters	Brian Day, Adriana Wood
THR2217	11/7/2019 12:05 PM	Email is the easy part: Five pitfalls to avoid in tenant-to-tenant migrations	Paul Robichaux
BRK3144	11/7/2019 1:00 PM	The MVP guide to Office 365 security, Exchange Online edition	Theresa Miller
BRK3142	11/7/2019 2:15 PM	Things you never knew about Microsoft Teams that might be important some day	Tony Redmond
BRK3312	11/7/2019 3:15 PM	Office 365 email enhancements that makes your organization smart, safe, and secure	Leena Sheth, Kevin Shaughnessy
BRK2104	11/7/2019 3:15 PM	Your users are under attack! Strengthen your anti-phishing defense with these O365 ATP best practices	Girish Chander
BRK2058	11/8/2019 9:00 AM	Deploy Office 365 groups at scale to power Microsoft Teams, Outlook, Yammer, and SharePoint	Salil Kakkar, Martina Grom
BRK2002	11/8/2019 9:00 AM	There is a new Outlook on the web: See what’s new, fresh, and exciting	David Meyers
BRK2090	11/8/2019 9:15 AM	Will Microsoft Teams take over from email?	Tony Redmond
BRK3248	11/8/2019 10:15 AM	Securing Exchange Online from modern threats	Brandon Koeller
BRK3257	11/8/2019 10:30 AM	Leverage the cloud to strengthen your on-premises Active Directory security	Charity Shelbourne, Mark Morowczynski
THR3034	11/8/2019 12:05 PM	Twenty minutes to a secure environment	Jeff Guillet

Note that the table above was constructed using the Get-EventSession script. I’ll be closely monitoring things this week to try to make sure it can retrieve Ignite contents as it gets published and cope with any changes in publishing as happened in recent years during the event.

Update: Added note about Intune App Protection policies.

One of the most requested features for Microsoft Teams on UserVoice is the ability to switch accounts. When you are working in consulting like me, chances are you need to switch accounts very often. This means you need to log in and out of every account to interact with their or guest access teams. Meanwhile your company might also be sending you messages, so you have to log in there as well. Now, on desktops one can leverage browsers’ private mode to accomplish simultaneous logons, but for mobile clients such alternative does not exist. All in all, this situation is far from ideal.

Now, the mobile workforce can rejoice, as iOS and Android received a client update (1.0.8.0 on iOS, don’t have Android device at hand currently). The updated client allows them to add more than one account, and quickly (and I mean quickly) switch between these accounts and guest accounts.

To add an account, open the menu (), open Settings and select Add account at the bottom to add an existing account to your configuration.

After you finish adding accounts, you can switch between accounts by opening the menu, and selecting one of the accounts or guest access which are shown at the bottom, grouped with the account they belong to. Example is shown right (yes, this is dark mode).

To remove an account, activate the account (by selecting it or one guest access), open the menu, and select Settings and Sign Out.

Another benefit is when your tenant is Azure Information Protection enabled. After logging in, you get prompted and need to restart the Teams app. That annoyance doesn’t happen when switching accounts, as the app remains logged in when switching.

Note that at the moment, badges are only updated within the same account and guest access.

Note that you cannot configure more than one account which has Intune App Protection configured. If you already have an IAP-enabled account and another gets IAP enabled, Teams requires you to pick one of the IAP accounts to be removed from the Teams app configuration.