How to Use Elgato StreamDeck With the New Microsoft Teams

By Feb 15, 2024 Devices 0 Comments

Do you want to supercharge your Microsoft Teams meetings with handy shortcuts that are just a few clicks away? If you do, then you might want to check out Elgato StreamDeck, a customizable controller that lets you create and execute actions with a single tap.

One of the coolest features of StreamDeck is that it integrates with Microsoft Teams, the popular communication and collaboration platform. With StreamDeck, you can control your Teams meetings with ease, such as muting/unmuting your microphone, turning on/off your camera, raising/lowering your hand, sharing your screen, and more.

Use Elgato StreamDeck with the new Microsoft Teams

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Meet Copilot for Microsoft 365, Your New Assistant in Microsoft Teams

By Feb 14, 2024 Copilot 0 Comments

If you are a Copilot for Microsoft 365 user, you may have noticed a new app in your Teams chats. This is Copilot, your AI companion that helps you get things done with Microsoft 365. Copilot is not just a rename of the previous Microsoft 365 Chat app, it also brings new features and improvements to enhance your experience. Here are some of the highlights:

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How Microsoft Teams and Viva Connections Announcements Can Help You Communicate Better

By Feb 13, 2024 Tips and Tricks 0 Comments

Microsoft Teams and Viva Connections are two powerful tools that can help you connect and collaborate with your colleagues. Both offer a feature called announcements, which allows you to create and share time-sensitive messages in a prominent way. However, these announcements are not the same and serve different purposes. In this blog post, I will explain the differences between Microsoft Teams and Viva Connections announcements, and how you can use them effectively.

Microsoft Teams and Viva Connections Announcements

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How to download audio messages from Microsoft Teams in 2024

By Feb 9, 2024 Tips and Tricks 6 Comments

Microsoft Teams is a popular platform for online collaboration, communication, and productivity. One of the features that many users enjoy is the ability to send and receive voice messages, which can be convenient and expressive.

However, unlike text and files, voice messages do not have a direct option to download the audio file and save it locally. This can be frustrating if you want to keep a record of an important conversation, or if you want to listen to the voice message offline or on another device.

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The New Channel Creation Experience in Microsoft Teams: What You Need to Know

By Feb 3, 2024 Channels 2 Comments

One of the reasons why users create more teams than necessary is that the team creation option is more prominent and accessible than the channel creation option.

To address this issue, Microsoft just made an improvement to the channel creation flow that will help with the teams governance and will likely reduce the number of teams in the organization moving forward.

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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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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.