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.
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 allows you to define a picture to hide your background while in a meeting but unlike its main competitor Zoom, it doesn’t have support for short background videos yet.
Despite this limitation it doesn’t mean you are not able to use videos as background during your Microsoft Teams meetings, it is possible in just a few clicks as explained in this article.
Reserving focus time for yourself is important so you can concentrate on your own tasks without getting disturbed by other users and Microsoft Teams notifications.
You can set your focus time manually every day by changing your status to do not disturb or you can automate the focus scheduling process using the My Analytics application included in the Microsoft 365 ecosystem.
Microsoft Viva is the new Employee Experience suite of application provided by Microsoft that combines communications, knowledge, learning, and resources inside Microsoft Teams.
Viva includes 4 different modules: Viva Connections, Viva Insights, Viva Learning and Viva Topics with Microsoft announcing that are more on the way.
I’ve being thinking about acquiring a Stream Deck for quite some time but always thought it was a bit pricy, so when I saw the Free Touch Deck project promising a similar solution for just $20 I immediately jumped into it.
Even though the it requires the manual wiring of the hardware, Dustin Watts the creator of the project has it very well explained in the online tutorial making the entire assembly a breeze.
Starting this February Microsoft Teams desktop clients will get a history menu that displays a user’s recently visited locations.
By hovering the back and forward navigation buttons you will get access to menu that will make the navigation to previous locations a lot easier.
One of the core functionalities of Microsoft Teams are meetings, and this feature just got an update that will make the scheduling and managing of channel meetings a lot easier with the channel calendar app.
Added to the roadmap in December 2020 it is already available to be used in the web and desktop clients worldwide, so let’s see how configure it.
Packt the publishing company with whom I published my book Hands-On Microsoft Teams book is committed to help people to increase their technical skills in the beginning of the year.
With this in mind they’ve decided to run a campaign until January 15th 2021, offering a significant discount in several book titles.
If you want to start the year mastering Microsoft Teams don’t loose the opportunity to get your hands on my Microsoft Teams book, you can do your order here.
Multitasking while working in Teams was one of the main limitations of the platform, having a chat with someone, while looking for content in an application was a bit annoying and forced you to switch context multiple times.
Microsoft was aware of this limitation and with the last updates has been introducing pop-out windows that allow you to detach calls, meetings, and chats.
With the latest update of the Microsoft Teams client, you will be able to pop out personal apps and tabs so you can continue to have chats and collaborate while working in the app.
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