All about Microsoft Teams channel meetings
What are channel meetings?
A regular Teams or Outlook meeting is created and owned by someone, it surfaces in their calendar, and they invite people to that meeting. Channel meetings are open...
Microsoft Teams calendar Scheduling Form pop-out
Do you ever find yourself creating a meeting in teams, but having to leave your meeting scheduling window to check a detail or confirm something? This mild annoyance is about to...
Microsoft Teams: Start a Teams Chat with Distribution Groups, Mail-Enabled Security Groups, and O365...
Microsoft: “Organizations rely on Distribution Lists (DLs) as a tool to create groups of users that mirror organizational knowledge and workflows. Bringing this awareness to target audiences for specific content will...
New ‘Unread only’ toggle in the Microsoft Teams activity feed
Details:A new Unread only toggle will help you to quickly view all the unread activities in your activity feed:
Remember you can currently go the long way to view your unread activity:...
Use Loop components in Microsoft Outlook emails
Emails are written by a sender and read by a recipient(s); it has been that way for decades. Will this change make emails ‘live’ and truly collaborative?
TL;DR:Loop components are live, interactive,...
Collaborate in Microsoft Teams meetings with Excel Live
TL;DR:With “Excel Live”, you can easily find and share an Excel workbook with meeting participants with just a few clicks. It seamlessly turns the meeting window to an Excel workbook collaboration...
Expanded reactions in Microsoft Teams
It’s back! I first shared this update in late 2021 and it was due January 2022…but it sort of fell off the radar for quite a while. It has now re-surfaced...
Create and share video Clips in a Microsoft Teams Chat
Update 13th April 2023: Now with captions. Read more: Microsoft Teams Video Clip auto-generated captions.
Details:Video Clips are a new way of working and connecting with colleagues using short (up to 1...
How to schedule a Microsoft Teams chat message
Many of us work early or late because it suits our lifestyles. But, we respect the work hours of our colleagues with actions such as delaying email delivery until normal working...
Automatically view up to 49 videos (7×7) in Teams meetings
TL;DR:Microsoft Teams meetings currently support a maximum of 9 videos (3x3) on the screen by default (Gallery view). For seeing more than 9 videos, you need to manually select the ‘Large...
Custom Download Location for Files in Teams
TL;DR:You will soon be able to choose your preferred Microsoft Teams file download location and even specify a download location on a per-download basis. Now due early September 2022 to late...
Microsoft Teams: Live Translated Captions in Meetings and Calls
12th May 2023 Update from Microsoft: "Earlier this year we announced the grace period for several Microsoft Teams Premium features that were in preview, including live translated captions for meetings. Starting...
Microsoft Viva: Recommendations to Send Praise in Viva Insights
Microsoft: “Praise in Microsoft Teams is designed to appreciate the effort that goes into the wide-ranging, collaborative work that Teams users do. Users can send praise to their colleagues through the...
Microsoft Teams: Improvements to In-Meeting Notifications
‘Meeting being recording’ notification across the top, poor network quality message shown another way and then there're chat bubbles…messages in Teams are a bit all over the place. This great update...
Language interpreter support in Microsoft Teams meetings
TL;DR:MS: “Language interpretation will allow interpreters to convert what the speaker says into another language in real time without disrupting the original flow of delivery of the speaker. This will allow...
Viva Engage, replacing Yammer Communities app for Teams
What is Viva Engage? "...the newest app within Microsoft Viva, designed to help organizations build community, spark engagement with leadership, harness knowledge and answers, and build personal networks. Microsoft Viva Engage will be...
Microsoft Teams meetings: assign seats in Together Mode
TL;DR:Microsoft Teams users in a meeting will soon have the option to assign seats in Together Mode for all participants in a meeting. Due early to late September 2022.
Details:When a meeting...
Quick thoughts: Microsoft Teams Vs Outlook. About to get harder to explain?
For end users, I think some recent Teams and Outlook updates have the potential to make the "Which app, when?" question a little more important for us to answer carefully.
Terms used:Inner...
Changes to Word, Excel, and PowerPoint integration in Teams
Since early 2018 I have heard people say of Teams "it's just another place I need to check for work". Since then I have been responding along the lines that if...
New question type for Polls app in Teams meetings: Ranking
TL;DR:The Ranking question type will soon be added to the Polls app within Microsoft Teams. This will be a quick and easy way to increase meeting engagement and collect information from...
What’s new in Microsoft 365 and Copilot? December 2024
Welcome to our final roundup of 2024. We look at what was announced, released and delayed across Microsoft 365 and Copilot in December.
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