Category: Microsoft Teams How-to’s
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Permissions in Microsoft Teams Breakout Rooms
Breakout rooms can be helpful for collaboration and discussion of the meeting. Breakout rooms are sessions that are split off from the main Teams meeting. They allow the participants to meet in smaller groups and are completely isolated in terms of audio and video from the main session. Since Microsoft released their breakout room functionality, a […]
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How to Gather Employee Ideas in Microsoft Teams
Gathering employee ideas is a huge opportunity to hear from new perspectives, improve business processes, and create a culture of innovation inside your organisation. Luckily, Microsoft Teams has an app for that! The app is called Employee Ideas and is a PowerApp added as a Tab in a Channel. To add the app as a […]
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How Praise Works in Microsoft Teams
Praise is a feature in Microsoft Teams and Viva Insights that enables employees to praise colleagues. You can send praise in a few different ways. First, you can send praise in a Teams Channel, by either typing “@praise” in a new conversation or clicking on the badge icon: You can also do this in a […]
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New and Improved Whiteboard in Microsoft Teams
Microsoft’s Whiteboard app has been available to use in Teams meetings for some time, but only recently has Microsoft added some great, new features to improve the Whiteboard experience in Teams. The Whiteboard is accessible in a Teams meeting by clicking on share and then sharing the whiteboard app. The first thing to notice in the new and improved […]
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4 Apps I use in Microsoft Teams
Customers often ask me what Teams apps they should be using. There are over 1000 apps available in Microsoft Teams, so I can’t say I’ve tried them all! But I wanted to share the four apps I regularly use in Microsoft Teams. A much better way of finding out which apps you need is to […]
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I’m a Microsoft MVP!
I am delighted to have been awarded the Microsoft MVP award. MVP stands for Most Valuable Professional and is an award given to technology experts who passionately share their knowledge with the community. There are only 4000 MVPs worldwide, so it’s a real honour to be among them! My award is for Office 365 Apps […]
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How to Sync Teams Files to Your File Explorer
With Microsoft Teams, you can sync files between your computer and the cloud, so you can get to your files from anywhere. Synced files will appear in your file explorer on your computer. If you add, change, or delete a file or folder in your file explorer, then the changes sync to Teams and vice […]
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New External Chat in Microsoft Teams
External access in Microsoft Teams is available to organisations that need to communicate and chat with people outside the organisation. External chat is handy if you need to communicate with members of the public, partners, suppliers or customers. Depending on if your admin has enabled it, you can search for someone external in a Team […]
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How to Run Multiple Instances of Microsoft Teams
One of my least favourite features of Microsoft Teams is the tenant switching. If a customer has added me to a Team in their tenant, I have to switch to theirs and log in whenever I want to access or share something with them. If I am on a Teams call in my company’s Teams […]
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How to Change the Auto-Expiration in Teams Meeting Recordings
Edit: Microsoft have postponed this update until late March 2022. The policy is going to be changed to 60 to 120 day default expiration. Microsoft announced that they are changing a policy, meaning that Teams meeting recordings will be sent to the recycle bin after 60 days. The reason they have done this is to […]
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