How to Stay on Top of Your Teams Channels with Discover Feed

By Feb 1, 2024 Channels, Microsoft Teams 0 Comments

If you are like me, you probably use Microsoft Teams to communicate and collaborate with your colleagues on various projects and topics. You may also belong to dozens of teams and hundreds of channels, each with its own stream of messages, files, and meetings. Keeping track of all these channels can be overwhelming and time-consuming, especially if you want to stay updated on the latest and most relevant conversations.

That’s why I’m excited to share with you a new feature that Microsoft has started to roll out in January 2024 and will be available worldwide in February 2024. It’s called Discover, and it’s a personalized channel feed that shows you the most interesting and important channel posts from people and topics you care about.

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What’s new for Microsoft Viva – January 2024

By Jan 30, 2024 Microsoft Viva 0 Comments

Welcome to the first round of updates for Microsoft Viva in 2024, the employee experience platform that helps you connect, focus, learn, and thrive at work. In this post, you can find all the announcement from January, and let me tell you that there are some exciting new features and enhancements for Viva Connections and Viva Engage.

With Viva Connections, you can customize your sites and experiences with fonts and themes in the brand center, create multiple distinct Connections experiences in the same tenant for different scenarios and users, and manage your Connections experiences and home sites from the Microsoft Viva admin experience in Microsoft 365 admin center.

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How to Adapt to the Website App Functionality Change in the New Teams Client

By Jan 26, 2024 Apps 0 Comments

Starting April 2024, Microsoft Teams will no longer allow you to load websites inside the new Teams desktop and web clients when using the Website app. Instead, these website links will open in a new browser tab outside of Teams. This applies to both new and existing Website apps.

The reason for this change is to better align with emerging best practices in web security and privacy, as well as to improve the reliability of websites opened through this feature. Microsoft wants to ensure that your web browsing experience is safe and secure, and that you can access the web content you need without any issues.

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Share contact information of people in Microsoft Teams chats

By Jan 10, 2024 Chat 0 Comments

Have you ever been in a group chat with someone you don’t know and wondered how to reach out to them? Or have you ever wanted to introduce a new colleague to your existing chat members? If so, you will love the new feature that Microsoft Teams is rolling out soon: the ability to share contact information of people in Microsoft Teams chat.

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What’s new for Microsoft Viva – December 2023

By Jan 4, 2024 Microsoft Viva 0 Comments

December was a great month for Viva Engage, the employee engagement platform that helps you connect, communicate, and collaborate with your colleagues. There were a lot of new announcements and improvements made by Microsoft, which are probably the biggest batch of updates since Viva Engage was renamed from Yammer. You will be amazed by the new features and enhancements that will make your work experience more engaging, productive, and fun!

But that’s not all. There were also some relevant updates for Viva Goals, the goal management tool that helps you align your objectives and key results (OKRs) with your organization’s vision and strategy. Microsoft made some improvements to the application that will allow you to further customize and templatize your OKRs, making them more relevant, measurable, and achievable.

In this blog post, you will get a brief overview of the new features and improvements for Viva Engage and Viva Goals, and how they can benefit you and your organization. Hope you enjoy reading this post and learning more about what is new for Microsoft Viva!

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Everything you need to know about Microsoft Teams new features in 2024

By Dec 29, 2023 Microsoft Teams 0 Comments

Microsoft Teams has been one of the most popular and widely used collaboration platforms in the world, especially after the pandemic that forced many businesses and organizations to switch to remote work. With more than 320 million active users per month, Microsoft Teams is constantly evolving and adding new features to enhance its functionality and user experience.

In this post, you will find a brief overview of the new features that are coming to Microsoft Teams in 2024, divided into three different sections: End users, Administrators, and Premium features. Each section will highlight some of the most important and exciting improvements that will make your communication and teamwork easier, faster, and more productive. You will also find links to more detailed information about each one of them.

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What’s new for Microsoft Viva – November 2023

By Dec 4, 2023 Microsoft Viva 0 Comments

AI-related updates and Copilot dominated the headlines in November, but Microsoft Viva and its employee experience platform also made significant progress. Viva Engage, in particular, announced several new features and updates to enhance employee engagement and communication. This month also marked the first integration of Copilot with Viva Insights, which will allow you to monitor the usage and impact of the various copilots within your organization through a PowerBi dashboard.

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Get ready for a new Files experience in Microsoft Teams with the new OneDrive application

By Nov 6, 2023 Files 0 Comments

Microsoft recently released OneDrive 3.0, and it’s becoming increasingly essential for managing files in Microsoft 365. As part of this development, they are replacing the Files app in Microsoft Teams with the new OneDrive app experience. This update will bring performance improvements, more viewing options, and the latest features of OneDrive to both classic and new Teams.

This change affects the Files app accessed from the left side of the Teams desktop client, the Files app in the new Teams desktop client will now be called the OneDrive app.

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How to manage your meetings better with Meet in Microsoft Teams

By Nov 2, 2023 Meetings 0 Comments

Are you looking for a better way to manage your meetings in Microsoft Teams? If so, you might want to check out the new Meet application, a central location for all your meetings.

With Meet in Microsoft Teams, you can access everything you need for your meetings in one convenient place. Whether you want to get ready for upcoming meetings, review what happened in previous ones, or find the recordings, chats, and recaps of your meetings, Meet has it all.

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How to forward chat messages in Microsoft Teams

By Nov 2, 2023 Chat, Tips and Tricks 0 Comments

The forward message feature is a new capability that will enable you to send chat messages from one chat to another. You can forward messages from 1:1 chats, group chats and meeting chats. You can also add additional content to the message in order to provide context and clarity for the recipient.

For example, you can forward a message from a customer to your manager and ask for their input. You can forward a message from a colleague to a group chat and share their insights. You can forward a message from a meeting chat to a 1:1 chat and follow up on an action item.

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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.