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Did you notice you can add Quiet Hours to Teams Mobile app? If you go to your Teams mobile app settings and notifications you can find a mention about Quiet hours there. Tap the text and you get to set your quiet hours and days. Easy and useful in many situations - you don't have … Continue reading Quiet hours in Teams
For some reason, I had been under impression that when a Team is not in your favorite list, you don't get any Team or Channel notifications from it. It seems I was wrong. Perhaps this has been always as is (and avoided my tests) or the behavior has changed over the course of time. So … Continue reading Favorite Teams and Channels and the art of @mentions
I was able to test new Microsoft Search and of course I was curious how it works with Teams and Yammer. Let's just say here are couple of snips. What was great, is that once I had written those messages they appeared in the search immediately. There isn't much delay. I wrote those messages, switched … Continue reading Microsoft Search and Teams conversations. Yes, it does work!
Thanks for joining me! I opened up this blog just today, but I have posted my earlier TeamsDay, TeamsTuesday and TeamsTorstai posts and articles here to make them more easier to find than from LinkedIn feed. There has been a lots of posts and some articles in Linked in since November 2017. Not all of … Continue reading The Teams Journey goes on.
A lots of new and upcoming features were announced to Microsoft Teams yesterday. Here is a one picture of what's happening next - and what already is available. Note: Have you started to plan how to migrate your organization from Skype for Business to Teams? If not - start it. It will take time before … Continue reading Some Ignite Teams news
Starting with smaller tenants (<500 seats) you cannot get a new Office 365 tenant with Skype in October! It is TeamsOnly! Also, beginning in November some tenants (which ones - not certainity yet) with less than 500 seats will get a automatic migration offer from Microsoft. You can postpone the migration, but it is not … Continue reading Goodbye for Skype for Business Online!
Does your apps for work come with "Change is Supported"? As my work evolves and changes constantly, so does my teams and Teams. #TeamsDay #TeamsTuesday Teams is my interface to my WORK It contains my workspaces and communications, it is about people (groups, conversations, calls, meetings) and content that is connected to the context like … Continue reading Change is supported
I have been using Teams actively over 1.5 years. Why I love this tool? What are benefits for me in my daily work? #TeamsDay #TeamsTuesday I love the way I can stay connected to my closest inner teams (easily, fluently) and yet I can work as easily with other people in other teams as … Continue reading My Teams experiences
Do you want to stop using SkypefB and switch to use only Teams? You could communicate with externals (federated users) and not care if they are using Skype or Teams. Can do! This was a hit for me immediately, because there is no more need to open the SkypefB app when someone sends me a … Continue reading Do you want to move ahead to TeamsOnly from SkypefBO?
What does it mean, when you have fully upgraded your Skype for Teams? How does it change your daily work? #TeamsTuesday #TeamsDay Last week I volunteered (requested!) to start testing #TeamsOnly mode. This means that I no longer use Skype for Business Online, but instead I use Teams as my sole communication tool, on top … Continue reading TeamsOnly so far
QuizTime! What are the best ways to drive in Teams or other new tools in your organization? What needs to happen, before You and your colleagues change the way you work? #TeamsDay #TeamsTuesday Choose one or more and tell me in comments which of these hit you the most: Trainings: Formal classroom or online … Continue reading How do drive organization to use Teams?
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
Do you often use ToDo/Outlook tasks to keep on track? Would you like certain tasks to be automatically forwarded to Team Planner Bucket and Teams chat? Let me tell you how to do it! #TeamsTuesday #Productivity #Hack This is very useful for entering new ideas on the go using ToDo-app. You can later just mark … Continue reading ToDo to Planner and Teams
#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?
While #guest access has been available in #MicrosoftTeams since last autumn, let's recap what it means to be a guest in #Teams #TeamsTuesday How guests can access Teams? If guest has #Office365 subscription that includes Teams, they can use Teams desktop client If they don't have Teams license, they need to use browser: Chrome … Continue reading Guests June recap
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
How many have used a channel meeting in Teams? Did you find it useful? Some of my thoughts about it: why and how channel meeting is better than a closed meeting #TeamsTorstai #MicrosoftTeams These meetings will increase transparency and accumulation of information It may also be recurring, you can continue the same meeting and keep its … Continue reading Channel meeting: why?
#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:Â 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
Vesa Nopanen - Future Work today 