How to share content from camera using Microsoft Teams

By Sep 30, 2021 Microsoft Teams 0 Comments

Microsoft Teams allows you to share content from a variety of digital sources while in a meeting and now thanks to the Content from camera feature you will be able to easily share physical white boards and documents using your built-in camera or an external USB camera.

Sharing content from camera will allow you to present content from physical artifacts in a legible way as the captured image gets detected and transformed to provide better readability.

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How to quote a message in Microsoft Teams 2.0

By Aug 7, 2021 Microsoft Teams 0 Comments

Quoting a message in Microsoft Teams desktop applications has been driving users crazy over the years as this feature is not available without copying the previous message and using a combination of shortcut keys.

With Microsoft Teams 2.0, currently only available in Windows 11 things are about to change and Microsoft has introduced a new reply option for each message.

Quote a Microsoft Teams message using Teams 2.0

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Meet the new Microsoft Teams integration for Windows 11

By Jun 25, 2021 Microsoft Teams, Windows 0 Comments

Microsoft has announced the new version of Windows yesterday and with it was also announced a new native integration for Microsoft Teams in the operating system.

With Windows 11, chat, calling and video conferencing will be just one click away and you will be able to connect faster than ever with the people you care about.

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How to download Microsoft Teams voicemail messages

By Jun 22, 2021 Microsoft Teams 0 Comments

Long gone are the days where the voicemail was a recording machine with cassette tapes that you could listen in the machine itself or in any other cassette player.

Despite being an old feature, it continues to be super useful, and Microsoft Teams has a modern version of the voicemail where you can access to all your messages from a central location but sadly it lacks the option to download the audio file for each message.

A missing save option does not mean you cannot download the audio file; in this article you will find detailed instructions that will guide you through the download process for each message individually.

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Microsoft Teams webinars for administrators

By May 18, 2021 Microsoft Teams 2 Comments

Despite being globally available the options to control Microsoft Teams webinars do not have yet a dedicated user interface in the meeting policies and this means that as an administrator you must use PowerShell to modify the properties that control this new feature in Microsoft Teams.

In this article you find all the properties related with the webinar creation and you will learn from examples how to enable or disable the webinars and its associated features.

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How to create a webinar registration page using Microsoft Teams

By May 17, 2021 Microsoft Teams 6 Comments

Hosting webinars in Microsoft Teams was possible since the initial release of the product using regular meetings or live events, however both options always felt short with some of the features being available in one type of meetings and not in the other and essential features like the registration page not being available at all.

With the new Webinar meeting type in Microsoft Teams you no longer need to manually handle the registrations for the online events with the registration page and the registration report being generated automatically.

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I’ve been nominated to the Commsverse Tech Community Awards 2021

By Apr 18, 2021 Microsoft Teams 0 Comments

I’m happy and honored to announce that I was nominated to the Commsverse Tech Community Awards 2021 in the Best Community Blog category with the HANDS ON tek blog.

The Best Community Blog award celebrates the person who has curated the most valuable and consistently accurate content that has helped their readers solve problems or learn about Microsoft technology and become the go to resource for their area of focus.

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How to pin an application to all Microsoft Teams users

By Apr 4, 2021 Microsoft Teams 0 Comments

As a Microsoft Teams admin you can pin applications that became available to all the users so when they open the application the app becomes immediately visible in the personal app bar.

In this article you will find instruction to make a Microsoft Teams application available to all users by pinning it using the setup application policies.

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How to install Viva Connections in Microsoft Teams

By Mar 31, 2021 Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Viva 6 Comments

Microsoft Viva announced earlier this year unifies the communication, knowledge and learning experiences under the same brand and Microsoft Viva Connections one of the 4 pillars of the new Microsoft 365 platform just became available for Microsoft Teams.

Viva Connections is your intranet landing page inside Microsoft Teams making the collaboration for your users easier and faster.

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Meet now and meeting options available in Outlook for desktop

By Mar 30, 2021 Microsoft Teams 0 Comments

While using Microsoft Teams you will find a few options to start or schedule a meeting and recently Microsoft added the meet now button and the meeting settings to the desktop version of Microsoft Outlook for Windows.

The new options will help you to streamline your meeting directly from outlook while taking care of your emails.

Microsoft Teams outlook, meet now, meeting settings

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João Ferreira

I've been working with Microsoft Technologies over the last ten years, mainly focused on creating collaboration and productivity solutions that drive the adoption of Microsoft Modern Workplace.