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Microsoft Teams Whiteboard got it's most recent update! I was positively surprised when I took a look at it "just to see if it had updated yet" - and it was! The look and feel is somewhat different on menus, and the result is aimed clearly more towards pen and inking users - but it … Continue reading Microsoft Teams Whiteboard updated! Take a look at the new user experience!
Did you know you can set person's status and status message in Microsoft Teams using Power Automate? Getting the status has been out there for some time now, but recently I saw posts in Twitter from Loryan Strant and Luise Freese where they set the status message in Teams to follow what they are listening … Continue reading Set Teams presence status and note automatically with Power Automate
Approvals application in Microsoft Teams is a great tool to create light-weight and ad hoc approval processes. What is missing, is the ability to track or hook to those approvals programmatically. Instead you can use Approvals actions in Power Automate very easily but the starting point can not be Approvals application. Recently I got a … Continue reading How to hook and connect to approvals created in Teams Approvals app via Power Automate (Part 1)
A long title, but necessary. Microsoft Teams has gotten new Power Automate actions and even one trigger + updates to old triggers recently. It was of course time for me to put them to the test. As a spoiler: not all work perfectly yet, but I don't think it will be a long time until … Continue reading Create a Teams chat group with Power Automate and other new actions and triggers
Earlier this summer I managed to get one Microsoft Teams certified Poly Studio P15 personal video bar to for testing. Poly Studio P15 is one those devices meant for hybrid work scenarios especially in personal use or in a huddle space. Integrated with tracking & zooming 4K camera, microphones and speakers it is a solid … Continue reading Review: Poly Studio P15
If you have Dynamics 365 for Marketing in place you can start already taking advantage of Webinar-Event integration that is available for Microsoft Teams. If you don't - but you do have 300+ licenses in Office/Microsoft E3/E5 you can sign up for a 6 month trial to try it out (until end of year 2021) … Continue reading How to follow up Teams Webinar attendees with Dynamics 365 Marketing
Microsoft Teams Whiteboard got recently very useful new features. There has been plenty of features on the way to Whiteboard during August-September. First ones of new features have appeared into Teams Whiteboard already! Read on to learn about new features such as New inking pensInking arrowsShortcut keysConvert to ShapeNote GridsAdding Image Using Windows 10 App … Continue reading Microsoft Teams Whiteboard got new features – part 1
I am doing my Sulava Microsoft Teams Spotlight webinars again next week. These webinars are free to attend; registration is needed. I do one in English and one in Finnish. I do my best to make these webinars worth your time: by providing information & news and benefits on what's latest in Microsoft Teams and … Continue reading Interested what’s the latest in Microsoft Teams? Attend my Spotlight-webinars to see live demos!
There are all the time something new in Microsoft Teams that can help make life easier. Something organizations have been asking is a ability to share organization "official" meeting video backgrounds for employees. It has finally rolled to Microsoft Teams, so admins can get stared with the capability. The quick list: Advanced Communication add-on license … Continue reading Set up organizational Teams meeting backgrounds
When you use out of the box feature to add a Whiteboard app to team channel it always creates a new Whiteboard. Using Graph API it is possible to add an existing or a new Whiteboard to team channel. This enables to re-use Whiteboards or recovering an accidentally removed Whiteboard tab. In my earlier blog … Continue reading How to add an existing or new Whiteboard to a team channel using Graph API
While Meeting Stage application can sound a bit strange, you have been using them all the time. One good example is the Microsoft Whiteboard shared to Teams meeting. In short "Shared meeting stage" is the area where you can share content with others - or you can use the shared stage to share your presentation … Continue reading Give your Power App the share to Meeting Stage superpower in Teams Meetings
The summer is always busy times for product groups at Microsoft. One reason is that Microsoft fiscal year ends to end of June and the other reason is the Inspire -conference (former Worldwide Partner Conference) that happens in July. This year I chose to be more on vacation (taking an annual break) instead of watching … Continue reading What’s new to Microsoft Teams during Summer 2021
I reviewed Microsoft Surface Headphones 2 in late 2020. Recently I got the change to try the Microsoft Teams Certified version of Surface Headphones 2+. These headphones are tagged "for business" and it also marks the opening era of Teams Certified headsets for Surface family. No, they don't look much different from the outside. Controls … Continue reading Review: Microsoft Surface Headphones 2+
Today is a good day - despite this being the third published blog post on today, which may be a kind of record even for me 😂. I am start my annual summer vacation and that gives me a welcome break to recharge some precious brain batteries. Perhaps even take some walks, bicycling and seeing … Continue reading My 2021 so far: a mid-year look back + turning on vacation mode in Microsoft Teams and Office 365
I was just preparing my other post and going through some Viva Insight when I noticed the front page had been updated with Headspace! The previous meditation part is gone and it has been replaced with the new functionality. Behind Headspace you can find these Guided meditations Virtual Commute now includes Headspace meditation. In the … Continue reading Viva Insights – updated and improved with Headspace!
In case you haven't seen the Admin Center bulletin here is important information if you have been using Office Preview or Microsoft Teams Public Preview. This is a change that can affect many of your users in Microsoft Teams: giving them option to turn on Teams Public Preview. This does not affect people in TAP … Continue reading Heads up! Microsoft Teams preview to follow Office Preview
The audio is #1 feature in meetings. If your audio is not clear or you don't hear what others say then the meeting quality and value is quickly degenerating. Of course there are other key elements in meetings as well. However Audio is the Number One. Too often sub-par devices with connectivity issues are used … Continue reading Review: Poly Voyager Focus 2
Last Thursday, 24th of June 2021, marked a great day - not just for opening Midsummer break in Nordic countries but especially for the announcement(*) of the new Microsoft Teams client along with Windows 11! The new Teams chat, call & meet client was highlighted during the Windows 11 announcements & intro but the true … Continue reading New Microsoft Teams client (2.0) announced with Windows 11!
I got an early access to Squarl application. It is (visioning to become) all-in-one management application that people can use to get all relevant loosely connected bits and pieces into a single application so they can be reviewed and accessed easily later. In short: you can add links, notes and Teams conversations into a single … Continue reading App highlight: Squarl – first impressions
What can be expected to roll out to Microsoft Teams during this summer? Short answer: a lot! Massively! I highlight some of those features in this blog post as a summary. As always - schedules can change. Some features may be pushed back if the testing reveals some issues there. While it does sting when … Continue reading Roadmap watch: what’s coming to Teams during Summer 2021?
I have been very enthusiastic about HoloLens 2 -devices when I first saw them demonstrated during 2019. I have been staying up to about HoloLens throughout these two years - especially thinking and learning about use cases in different industries and bringing in Line of Business applications to it. The latest big news was the … Continue reading Microsoft HoloLens 2 – experiencing the future today
Chat Bubbles is a new feature to display chat messages in Teams meetings that just hit Public Preview (yes, you need to have Public Preview enabled in Teams Desktop client to be able to use these preview features). And no, you don't see them in browser-Teams nor in mobile-Teams at this phase. Just the Desktop … Continue reading Chat Bubbles in Team meetings
It was a pleasant surprise to test our Teams meetings features recently: Laser Pointer & Inking features are available in PowerPoint Live! This means it is possible to start laser-pointing your slides, ink on them (in various colors & thicknesses) to highlight the content and of course use highlighter to really stand something out. I … Continue reading PowerPoint Live in Teams: now with laser pointer and inking!
I had the opportunity to test out Poly's Sync 20 -speakerphone for Teams for couple of months now. Previously I have taken a look at Poly Calisto 5300 in late 2020, so I was really interested to try Sync 20 out. Of course since this too is certified for Microsoft Teams, and optionally comes with … Continue reading Review for Poly Sync 20: a Microsoft Teams certified Speakerphone
I can see Create Task has appeared in Teams Public Preview! This new feature makes it really easy to turn conversation into tasks in your personal To Do or to Team Planner. This saves the trouble of having to activate it yourself and especially the need to do copy-paste to get message contents to Tasks. … Continue reading How to create Task from a message in Teams (Out of the Box version)
It is time to take a brief look at Teams roadmap, since there has been plenty of changes recently. As always, when looking for most up to date information about a specific feature I urge you to check Microsoft 365 Roadmap. This blog post works as a curated summary of those items I feel are … Continue reading Roadmap watch: What new to expect to Microsoft Teams in June 2021 (and a bit beyond)?
Microsoft Teams is getting Shared Channels! This new feature will make it possible to work with other people in a channel by invited an internal or external (in other organizations) members to a Shared Channel. At first the biggest things why this matters: externals don't have to switch tenants to work with you - and … Continue reading Shared Channels: Collaborate beyond borders in Microsoft Teams
The new sharing experience is rolling to Microsoft Teams chat. When you drop/upload/select a file to be shared you can now define what the recipient can do with the file. This makes it possible to share files and prevent others from downloading them. And yes - this comes from the OneDrive so this capability is … Continue reading New file sharing experience: review / block download in Teams chat
It is always fun to check what Microsoft Teams features are available in Public Preview. To my surprise this time it was the Presenter Mode! Only one of modes is there: Standout but I think it will be very often used one. This means that I need to start thinking how slides are built, so … Continue reading Presenter Mode (standout) is in Public Preview!
Microsoft Build (#MSBuild if you tweet / post to social about it) information is flowing.. fluiding in! I especially love the way Collaborative applications are presented in one picture. Collaborative Experiences is a great term - ties up nicely with Employee Experience. This blog post focuses on announcements and news around Microsoft Teams. Picture from … Continue reading Microsoft Teams News and Announcements at Microsoft Build #MSBuild
Microsoft Teams announcements and news at Microsoft Build (#MSBuild if you tweet / post to social about it) focus on more at extensibility and how these result in the benefit of people using Teams. There are lots of interesting features that will make applications more rich and more versatile in Teams. One of those announcements … Continue reading How to build your own Together Mode scene to Microsoft Teams. Without coding! #NoCode
I was lucky enough to get my hands to Surface Duo device for a month. Surface Duo is a dual-screen mobile "phone" that can also be called a Modern Work Productivity Device. There has been quite a many of reviews of the device in the social for some time so I don't dive into phone … Continue reading Surface Duo : a modern employee experience device
Video control (ability to disable) attendee video is rolling to Microsoft Teams meetings. This will be possible to set in meeting options (not rolled out yet) and seems to be present only in Teams Desktop app at the moment. It tells that the rollout is in early steps and you can not prepare this in … Continue reading How to disable attendee video/camera in Microsoft Teams meetings
Plenty of Webinar features have rolled into Microsoft Teams recently! Earlier the support for "overflow" meetings (=view-only attendees) have been followed by large meetings (1K) and now also registration support. What is still on the waiting list is the attendee engagement information. Some facts to get started Included in E3, E5, Business Standard, Business Premium … Continue reading How to create Webinars with Microsoft Teams
Hello my dear readers! I am presenting my Microsoft Teams what's new & upcoming webinar tomorrow. In this webinar I go through latest Microsoft Teams features and information and there are plenty of live demos in it. Since this is a Sulava (my employer) webinar I have also a few company slides in it and … Continue reading I am hosting Teams Spotlight Webinar tomorrow: Tuesday 18th at 9am CEST
Vesa Nopanen - Future Work today 