Microsoft Teams activity feed is not just a chat notification aggregator, it combines notifications from your chats and from applications you are using in Teams.
To help filtering between notification you have read and the ones you have missed, Microsoft Teams is now adding a toggle that will show you the unread activities in just one click.
Workarounds to create self-chats in Microsoft Teams have been present since the platform was released as you can see in one of my previous articles, but now Microsoft is making this an official feature.
Any user will be able to chat with himself, making use of all the options available when chatting with other users. Using this new feature, you will be able to save memos, take quick notes or even store files that become available in the files tab inside the conversation.
If you use Microsoft Teams, the Calendar application is a central component to keep you organized in your day-to-day activities and there is nothing more frustrating than seeing an error message that prevents you from seeing your schedule.
If your calendar is presenting you with the error message “Couldn’t load your calendar. Let’s give it another try” there is one thing you can do before reaching directly to your Microsoft Teams administrator.
Microsoft Teams will soon allow users to create chats with themselves to easily take notes, write quick messages, or even store files or images.
This feature is planned to be released in June 2022 but while it doesn’t happen here is a workaround to take advantage of self-chats.
There are new features coming to Microsoft Teams to adjust the brightness and focus, that will make the image captured by your camera in video meetings better than ever.
Brightness adjustments enhances the video quality when the lightning is poor while soft focus applies a smoothing effect to appearance.
PowerShell is a tool that allows the automation of repetitive tasks and has support for pretty much everything Microsoft-related.
Microsoft Teams is not exception and there is dedicated module that allow you to automate the administrative tasks on the platform.
Microsoft Teams voice mail is a great feature that allow other users to send you voice messages when you are not able to pick up a call.
Teams has by default a greetings, but you can replace it by your own message following the instructions provided in this article:
Microsoft Teams allows you to easily share your desktop or individual windows while presenting in a meeting, and this feature has just become easier to use thanks to an integration between Teams and Windows 11.
Microsoft Teams allows you to define a status message to inform other users about something that goes beyond the presence indicator.
To prevent you from showing an outdated message for hours or even for days, Microsoft Teams now gives you the possibility to define the duration of your status messages when creating it.
For a more inclusive meeting experience in Microsoft Teams, the together mode allows you to define scenes where attendees will be “seated” next to each other.
Microsoft has several different scenes that you can choose from, and in this article, you will learn how to extend the available scenes by building your own.
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