How to run multiple instances of Microsoft Teams using Microsoft Edge

By Dec 10, 2019 Microsoft Teams 16 Comments

With the exponential growth of Microsoft Teams also came the problem to manage accounts in multiple tenants, if you belong to more than one organization you may find yourself signing in and signing out multiple times or using multiple browsers to keep up with everything being said in all environments.

While the option to manage multiple accounts is not tackled by the official app there are few workarounds available to run multiple instances of Microsoft Teams in your machine, and with the new Microsoft Edge a new one has become available.

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How to easily identify Teams site collections

By Sep 18, 2019 Microsoft Teams, SharePoint 2 Comments

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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Customize Microsoft Teams meeting requests

By Sep 15, 2019 Microsoft Teams, Modern Workplace 0 Comments

Your company logo is your identity and you probably include it in all your communications and in your mail signature so there is no reason to not include it also in the Microsoft Teams meting requests.

Microsoft Teams meting requests can be customized by the global administrator in the Admin Center and the customization is then propagated to all users in the tenant.

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How to send an email to a channel

By Sep 12, 2019 Microsoft Teams, Modern Workplace 8 Comments

Each team on Microsoft Teams has its own email that works as a distribution list, but did you know that each channel inside the team has also its own email?

Channel emails can be used by Team members to post content directly from email to the channel and this include not just the body of the email but also all the attachments.

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How to change a Team email

By Sep 4, 2019 Microsoft Teams, PowerShell 0 Comments

There are a lot of reasons that can lead you to a rename of a Team, either because the self-creation is enabled, and the names don’t follow the internal rules or simply because the name no longer makes sense.

On Microsoft Teams you have a graphical interface that will allow you to change the name and the description of the Team however the email will not change to reflect the modification.

To modify the email, you will need to use the Exchange PowerShell below to create a new alias and delete the old one.

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Share to Microsoft Teams – A new WordPress plugin

By Jul 14, 2019 Microsoft Teams, Modern Workplace 7 Comments

According to the numbers unveiled before Microsoft Inspire 2019, Microsoft Teams has already surpassed Slack and has an average of 13+ million users active on the platform daily.

WordPress is one of the most used platforms to publish content on the Internet and with this new plugin Share to Microsoft Teams, blog and site owners can potentially increase their audience by providing an embedded button to share a page directly to any person on Microsoft Teams.

Share to Microsoft Teams

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What’s new for Microsoft Teams form SPC 2019

By Jun 9, 2019 Microsoft Teams 0 Comments

Microsoft Teams was under the spotlight during the SharePoint Conference with a few sessions dedicated exclusively to the platform.

Even though this conference was not dedicated to Microsoft Teams, Microsoft made some announcements related with the integration with SharePoint.

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Ask the Experts – Microsoft Teams

By May 7, 2019 Microsoft Teams, Videos 0 Comments

I’m happy to announce that I’ll be part of the first edition of the Ask the Experts online organized by the European SharePoint, Office 365 & Azure Conference.

Do you have a burning question? Or a technical issue that you just can’t solve through a Google search?

Ask the Experts – no appointment necessary!


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Publish SharePoint Announcements into Microsoft Teams

By Apr 14, 2019 Modern Workplace 0 Comments

The announcements you publish inside your intranet can reach a broader audience if you propagate them to Microsoft Teams.

The solution provided in this article provides a method to publish announcements from SharePoint into Microsoft Teams and it can be easily implemented by any IT-Pro as it does not require coding skills.

Combining SharePoint, Flow, Teams and Adaptive Cards IT-Pros can get super powers and revolutionize the way collaboration is done inside companies.

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Run Multiple Instances of Microsoft Teams

By Apr 10, 2019 Modern Workplace 24 Comments

Being able to execute multiple instances of Microsoft Teams is a long-waited feature that is affecting negatively all the users that belong to multiple organizations.

If you are doing multiple tenant swaps during the day to keep up with everything that is happening in all your organizations this article is for you, even though Microsoft Teams does not support multiple instances you will be able to execute the web version as standalone app and you will be able to be signed in in all the organizations ate the same time.

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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.