Sunday, November 24, 2024

Automatically view up to 49 videos (7×7) in Teams meetings

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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

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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

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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

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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

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‘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

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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

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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

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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?

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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

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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

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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...

Microsoft Teams: Accept or block external chat requests

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TL;DR:Teams users will soon see an invitation pop-up to accept or block an external user when receiving new chats from external users. Due mid-August to early September. Details:When receiving a new one-on-one...

Microsoft Teams will no longer auto provision a Wiki with new channels

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TL;DR:Microsoft are making some changes to the wiki experience in Teams channels. At present whenever a new private or standard channel is created then a wiki is automatically provisioned for the...

Teams meetings: Pop out shared content into a separate window

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If you attend Teams meetings, and have two screens, you will soon be able to pop the shared content out to one screen and view the meeting window on the other....

Stream on SharePoint: Video Collections Page

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Do you have videos scattered across Teams and SharePoint? This new SharePoint page will display them all in one place for you. TL;DR:SharePoint video collections pages are designed to make it easy...

Is this new Microsoft Teams feature the GOAT? Soft focus and Adjust brightness in...

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Is your high-quality webcam just a bit too good at showing every little detail during Teams meetings? You’ll soon be able to smooth things out with an update that is maybe...

Enable Q&A in Teams Meetings via Meeting Options

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Q&A in Teams meetings are an excellent way of engaging attendees with structured questions and answers, but adding the Q&A app to the meeting feels a bit clunky. This is about...

How to set up a great Teams meeting

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WORK IN PROGRESS PREVIEW A great meeting starts with two elements: a great invitation and carefully chosen meeting settings. In this post we’ll start at the very beginning as we explore best practice and take a...

Cameo in PowerPoint Live

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TL;DR:With Cameo in PowerPoint Live, you will be able to integrate Teams camera feed into PowerPoint presentation and customise how and where you want to appear on slides. Due September 2022. Details:⁠Cameo...

Remove a call from the Teams call history view

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If I saw someone’s name in your Teams calls history, could I guess something about that person due to the role you do at work? If yes, should you remove that...

Microsoft is adding volume control to language interpreter support in Teams...

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TL;DRMicrosoft is adding volume control to Language interpreter support in Microsoft Teams meetings. Due mid to late November 2024. DetailsAfter this rollout: If a meeting organizer...

A new calendar experience is coming to Teams

Design Ideas is now available in SharePoint