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Teams – Complete integration of Office Web Applications with Teams

The Office Web Applications (Word, Excel and PowerPoint) are now fully integrated with Teams. With this integration you can create new documents directly from Teams as well as open recent files (using the same UI than the full client). To do so, just open the ellipsis (the …) option to search for any of the […]

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Azure – You can now expand your data drive without downtime (preview)

If you run Azure virtual machines, you already know that you expand your data drives after shutting down (deallocate) the virtual machine. Well, good news, you can now do the same without downtime. Before you start expanding your drives while your virtual machine is still running, you need to know the following: This capability is

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Teams – You can now remove a call from the call history view

You can now remove a call from your call history view in Teams. To do so just access the Calls app to access the call history and open the contextual menu of the call you want to remove to choose Remove from view   If this is not yet available for you, the deployment in

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Teams – You can now enable Q&A on Teams meeting

As you probably already know, you can use the Teams meeting chat to exchange with participant and also ask questions. Well, when you are in a large and/or structured meeting – such as training or town hall – questions asked using the chat windows may be ‘lost’ for the organizer due to the ‘chat noise’.

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Teams – You can disable chat write access for anonymous or unauthenticated users

As you know when on a Teams meeting participants can use the chat feature to communicate with each others. You may be also aware that you can also allow anonymous or unauthenticated users to join a Teams meeting (if your Teams administrators allow it from the Meetings\Meeting Policies blade). When combined together (chat feature and

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Azure – How to remotely connect to Azure virtual machines

When running workloads on cloud services ones of the challenges is to manage them in a secure way; this especially true when you have to manage virtual machines. Accessing and managing virtual machines in an on-premises environment is usually done either using Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) for Windows machines or Secure Shell (SSH) for Linux

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Forms – You can now collect Forms response by sending invitation

If you use Office 365, you are probably aware about the Microsoft Forms feature which allows you to create quiz or surveys. Well, until now when you wanted to collect responses you had to either copy the link and manually share it, send an email, use a QR code or embedded the link on a

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Teams – You can now pop out shared content during a meeting

If you are using Teams you may already know that you can pop out your chat on different window (see https://t.co/t6rVmsEldW). Well, you can now also pop out the shared content on a different window while in a meeting. To do so, when in the meeting, use the pop out button shown in the meeting

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Teams – A new administration Teams application is available

If you are administering Microsoft Teams you already know that you can use either PowerShell or the Teams administration portal (https://admin.teams.microsoft.com/). Well good news as now you can perform main administration operations directly from your Teams client using the new Microsoft Admin application. To install the app, open the Teams App Store and search for

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Teams – You can now join a Teams meeting with a meeting ID

Joining a Teams meeting has been improved by now providing the ability to join using meeting ID. When scheduling a meeting, your invitation will contain the usual “Click here to join the meeting” link but also a meeting ID and passcode These meeting ID and passcode can then be used to join the meeting using

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