Episode 162 – Bing, Office 365 ProPlus, and Microsoft Search – Oh My!

In Episode 162, Ben and Scott discuss one of the latest bad moves out of Redmond - forcefully installing the Microsoft Search in Bing extension in Google Chrome. Sponsors Skill Me Up – Only Skill Me Up provides the bridge from fundamentals to certification paths to advanced skills to accelerate digital transformation in 1 subscription with 5 ways to learn. ShareGate – ShareGate’s industry-leading products help IT professionals worldwide migrate their business to the Office 365 or SharePoint, automate their Office 365 governance, and understand their Azure usage & costs Sperry Software – Powerful Outlook Add-ins developed to make your email life easy even if you’re too busy to manage your inboxOffice365AdminPortal.com – Providing admins the knowledge and tools to run Office 365 successfully Intelligink – We focus on the Microsoft Cloud so you can focus on your business Show Notes Extension of Microsoft Search in Bing to be installed to Office 365 ProPlus customers Microsoft Search in Bing and Office 365 ProPlus How to exclude the extension for Microsoft Search in Bing from being installed How to remove the extension after it’s been installed The Day Microsoft Office Turned into Malware Office 365 ProPlus to change Chrome's default search engine to Bing in upcoming update Change to Bing Search for ProPlus should be opt-in only Google’s Five-Year Plan For GCP Has Funding Strings Attached: Report About the sponsors Everyone on your team is unique...so is SkillMeUp.com. Only Skill Me Up provides the bridge from fundamentals to certification paths to advanced skills to accelerate digital transformation with 1 subscription with 5 ways to learn. Start your free pilot today and supercharge your IT and Microsoft Azure skills. https://skillmeup.com/pilot/?src=Pod Sperry Software, Inc focuses primarily on Microsoft Outlook and more recently Microsoft Office 365, where a plethora of tools and plugins that work with email have been developed. These tools can be extended for almost any situation where email is involved, including automating workflows (e.g., automatically save emails as PDF or automatically archive emails that are over 30 days old), modifying potentially bad user behaviors (e.g., alert the user to suspected phishing emails or prompt the user if they are going to inadvertently reply to all), and increased email security (e.g., prompt the user with a customizable warning if they are about to send an email outside the organization). Get started today by visiting www.SperrySoftware.com/CloudIT Every business will eventually have to move to the cloud and adapt to it. That’s a fact. ShareGate helps with that. Our industry-leading products help IT professionals worldwide migrate their business to the Office 365 or SharePoint, automate their Office 365 governance, and understand their Azure usage & costs. Visit https://sharegate.com/ to learn more. Intelligink utilizes their skill and passion for the Microsoft cloud to empower their customers with the freedom to focus on their core business. They partner with them to implement and administer their cloud technology deployments and solutions. Visit Intelligink.com for more info.