Get my Hands-On Microsoft Teams book for just $5 dollars

By Dec 31, 2020 Microsoft Teams 0 Comments

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.

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Meet the new pop out apps feature for Microsoft Teams

By Dec 16, 2020 Microsoft Teams 0 Comments

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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How to enable Microsoft Teams personal features in your desktop

By Nov 22, 2020 Microsoft Teams, Personal 0 Comments

Microsoft Teams has grown and evolved like no other platform in 2020 and helped thousands of business and schools to stay on track during Covid-19 pandemic. Despite the huge success with businesses and the education sector, Microsoft has started to target other areas expanding Teams to be used with friends and family.

The preview of Microsoft Teams personal was announced and released for mobile in June and now is arriving to the desktop helping you to better manage your work and personal life.

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Keep track of who watched Microsoft Teams meeting recordings

By Nov 1, 2020 Microsoft Teams 6 Comments

The possibility of recording a meeting on Microsoft Teams is not new but is being improved to provide a better experience and it now supports the recording directly inside of SharePoint and OneDrive as I explain in this article.

Getting the recordings stored on SharePoint and One Drive solves a lot of the issues users face with Microsoft Stream and it also takes advantage of the great features for files built in in this platforms.

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Microsoft Teams is about to change – Meet the new design

By Oct 29, 2020 Microsoft Teams 2 Comments

Just a few days after Teams has reached 115 million users, we get the chance to see for the first time the new design that will soon land in all tenants worldwide.

Microsoft is updating the Default and Dark themes, changing the background colors and icons to align with the Fluent design already available in other Microsoft 365 applications.

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Enable meeting recordings in SharePoint and OneDrive

By Oct 27, 2020 SharePoint, Videos 0 Comments

The transition from the classic to the new Stream has already started and managing meeting recordings from Microsoft Teams will be easy as managing a file.

Meeting recordings in SharePoint and OneDrive are globally available and this posts tells you everything you need to know about this new feature.

Microsoft Teams meeting recordings in SharePoint and OneDrive

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How to modify the name and profile picture of external users on Microsoft Teams

By Oct 25, 2020 Microsoft Teams 0 Comments

Microsoft Team gives you the possibility of bringing external users to your Teams context making the collaboration and communication a lot easier.

Despite allowing external users (also known as guests) the name and the profile picture is generated automatically based on the email making it difficult to identify who is who.

To help identifying the user you can redefine the name and the name using the Azure Active Directory in just a few steps as explained in this article.

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How to download audio messages from Microsoft Teams

By Oct 25, 2020 Microsoft Teams 34 Comments

Audio messages are not one of the most known features on Microsoft Teams as they are only available on the mobile clients, despite this limitation they can be heard in all Teams versions and with the solution I’m bringing here today they can now be downloaded using the web client.

Unlike other files, audio messages are not stored on SharePoint however they are available to be downloaded and listened offline if needed.

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How to disable the lobby on a Microsoft Teams meeting

By Oct 18, 2020 Microsoft Teams 4 Comments

Approving participants waiting on a Microsoft Teams meeting lobby is not difficult but it can be a tedious task if you have a lot of people joining at different times.

If your organization has it enabled by default to all the meeting in this article you will learn how you can disable the lobby for Microsoft Teams meeting that you organize.

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How to download the attendance reports on Microsoft Teams

By Oct 4, 2020 Microsoft Teams 0 Comments

Meetings and Live Events are the 2 type of conferences you can have on Microsoft Teams, these can be used for regular meetings at a company to host a virtual event or even for teachers to deliver classes.

For some of these scenarios it’s important to keep track of who have attended the events and both Meetings and Live Events allow you to download the attendance reports.

Despite happening on Teams, the method used to download the reports is different for Meetings and Live Events, in this article you will learn how to enable them and where you can get the attendance reports.

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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.