If you open Teams app on your phone, while you have already joined the meeting on another device such as laptop, it will promote you to join the meeting in a Companion Mode. #TeamsTuesday #TeamsDay In #CompanionMode you can bring more value into meeting: You can share content from your phone directly onto meeting (photos … Continue reading Companion mode in mobile app

You can upload #PowerPoint presentation into #MicrosoftTeams -meeting. Attendees can navigate the slides on the own pace to read ahead, or review previous ones. They can also request control or just watch the show just like in #Skype. #Teamsday #TeamsTuesday   Tip number 2: You can use Ctrl+Shift+V to paste plain text into Teams. This … Continue reading Tips on PowerPoint, plain text copypaste and Planner: my tasks

#MicrosoftTeams gets new  features all the time. Here are some highlights what's new / soon emerging  #TeamsTuesday Meeting notes in Teams meeting. These are using Teams Wiki, so my recommendation is not to use these (use OneNote instead) until Wikis are fixed. New sharing icon on Teams meeting Add private chat person to contact's favorite … Continue reading Teams news at June’s end

Do you need to check what you wrote in Teams? Where to find your last messages? You can use My Activity or search for your own messages and filter results. #TeamsTuesday   My Activity is found in activity feed. You can switch between Feed or My Activity. My Activity shows your replies and posts in … Continue reading How to find your own Teams messages?

Do you use Planner with Teams? Are some of your teams private for reason? Are you a owner in the team? Then be careful when assigning tasks to someone. #TeamsTuesday   This is not a new issue, but often not thought about. When you work with a private team planner and there are tasks to … Continue reading Something to note, when you assign a Planner task to non-member

When adding people to a team, you want them to easily access at least essential information. This includes the most important channels, that should be visible for team members. There is a setting in Teams you can use to achieve this and it is called auto-favorite channels. #TeamsTuesday   The auto-favoring channel affects also existing … Continue reading Autofavoriting Teams channels

#MicrosoftTeams includes also private chats, not just #teamwork teams and channels. What are benefits of these? How do you #survive through private chats #TeamsTuesday   You can favorite (star) or unfavorite chats with persons or groups Favorited chats can be rearranged in Teams: put most used chats on top Meeting chats can be favorited too. … Continue reading Surviving private chats

#MicrosoftTeams is more than just a chat. It is your project room where everything about the project can be found. It is your team's space where you exchange information and #BestPractices. #TeamsTuesday #Collaboration #ModernWork   To make this happen, you  need to agree on shared practices to truly #Teamwork. All teams are public if you … Continue reading Good shared practices in teamwork

How do you share file links in #MicrosoftTeams? What's the difference when you choose to share a Teams or SharePoint -link and copy that link, for example, to another team or email? #TeamsTuesday   Teams-link starts with url pointing to teams microsoft com. Using Teams-link the file opens inside Teams. This URL is usable when … Continue reading Teams vs SharePoint link

#MicrosoftTeams includes a default wiki for each channel. What I do first is that I delete it as it is not yet production ready. I recommend using OneNote instead of Wiki.   Why I don't recommend using Wiki? - Wiki pages are only available in Teams. They are created in your own file library for … Continue reading Don’t use Teams wiki

Are you aware that you can edit the same document with your colleagues? At the same time? And you can go back to earlier version if needed? Or you can do the same with memos - co-create them together with your colleagues? Without needing to send memos or files over the email for editing?   … Continue reading Co-authoring in Teams

How do you engage and get your team started with #Teams #quickly and efficiently? #TeamsTuesday got you a few best practices to start with:   Find out What of your team's work can be transferred to Teams easily? Consider communicating, working with files or notes, #QuickStart: team internal emails, communications, files, memos and tasks Agree … Continue reading Engaging your team

About #engaging your #organization:  When you are starting to use #Teams, make sure you get your team leaders, #managers and #directors onboard to engage your organization. The change is not just about employees - it needs to happen on all levels and it must be backed up by #sponsors. To achieve this, the management needs … Continue reading Of engaging managers

#TeamsTuesday thought of the day: don't think Teams and SharePoint document management as separate processes. While you can't edit metadata on Teams' files tab, but have you thought about bringing document libraries and their views into your team's workspace as tabs? Doing this, you actually CAN view and edit the metadata! Check out the video … Continue reading Teams is a not a another document management tool