What’s new for Microsoft Teams from Microsoft Ignite 2020

Microsoft Teams had an astonishing growth during the pandemic and has been receiving new features like no other platform in the Microsoft ecosystem and this Microsoft Ignite was no exception.

Jeff Teper did the Microsoft Teams keynote and presented the usage numbers of the platform that has more than 75 million daily active users, and more than 250 million active users. All these users will start to soon receive the features listed in this article improving even further their digital work experience.

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By João Ferreira Sep 27, 2020 Microsoft Teams, SharePoint 0 Comments

Collabdays Lisbon 2020 – Learn the latest and greatest about Microsoft Teams

SharePoint Saturday Lisbon has been rebranded and it is now Collabdays Lisbon. Don’t worry, it is still organized by the same people and maintains the same spirit as in previous years.

Collabdays Lisbon is a non-profit, community-driven event dedicated all that is great about SharePoint, Office 365 and Azure. It will be a one-day free virtual event on October 10th, 2020.

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By João Ferreira Sep 20, 2020 Microsoft Teams, SharePoint 0 Comments

How to add SharePoint Spaces to Microsoft Teams

SharePoint Spaces allows you to create and share mixed reality experiences with your users in just a few clicks, it allows you add a new dimension to your intranet using 2D and 3D web parts.

This feature has just landed on SharePoint and is a perfect add-on for your teams on Microsoft Teams, if you are curious about the build process check this article.

Adding SharePoint Spaces to Microsoft Teams is fairly easy, even though this is a new feature it is fully compatible with the existent SharePoint app for Teams.

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By João Ferreira Apr 29, 2020 Microsoft Teams, SharePoint 2 Comments

How to remove a faulty tab from a channel

Every now and then while removing a tab from a channel I get an error, and if the tab is an SPFx app I no longer can remove it using the UI.

This happens because the removal process gets interrupted, the reference to the tab in the Hosted Apps Config list on SharePoint gets deleted but the tab remains on Microsoft Teams.

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By João Ferreira Mar 26, 2020 Microsoft Teams, SharePoint 0 Comments

Script editor for Microsoft Teams

The script editor web part was kind of a super hero in the classic SharePoint, with a few clicks it allowed content creators to build web parts and to embedded content from the web.

This awesome web part is back and ready to spread the magic as an app in Microsoft Teams.

The modern script editor app is not provided officially by Microsoft, it was developed by Mikael Svenson and is available as an open source project part of the PnP initiative.

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By João Ferreira Mar 25, 2020 Microsoft Teams, SharePoint 0 Comments

How to fix the authentication issues with personal apps using SharePoint pages

SharePoint has been out there forever and I’m sure you have a lot of content on it that you would love to start seeing on Microsoft Teams.

Vesa Juvonen did an amazing video covering a typical scenario of how SharePoint and Teams can be integrated without writing code but unfortunately the solution fails when used on the desktop Microsoft Teams client.

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By João Ferreira Feb 13, 2020 Microsoft Teams, SharePoint 1 Comment

How to easily identify Teams site collections

When a new Team is created there are a few resources created along with it, one of them is an Office group and his SharePoint site collection where all the team documents are stored.

With the self-service creation of Teams enabled by default managing SharePoint site collections will certainly be harder over the time but as an administrator you can change the default settings to easily identify all the sites belonging to a team.

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By João Ferreira Sep 18, 2019 Microsoft Teams, SharePoint 2 Comments