This has been a long awaited capability and painful user experience. As you know, it has been impossible to share files in external chats as shared files are saved in user’s OneDrive. Well, starting early July (targeted release tenant – aka preview) and mid July, you will now be able to share files in external […]
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This has been a long awaited new administration role: Teams Reader. If you are managing Microsoft Teams, you already know you have various administration roles (6) allowing you delegating some aspect of Teams administration. Unfortunately, until now there was no way to grant a reader access to your Teams tenant. Well, good news as the
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If you use Microsoft Teams, you know that you send messages to a Teams meeting before, during and after the meeting. Well, to help avoiding potential data leak from Teams meeting chats, a new policy is now available to disable ability to send chat messages to Teams meeting before and after this meeting for specific
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As introduced few month ago, Microsoft has deployed a settings to block (default) communication with trial Teams tenants (which include Visual Studio ones) (see Teams – You can now block federation with trial tenants). It was first only configurable using PowerShell and now is also available from the Teams administration portal (Users\External access blade) Well,
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Teams is a powerful collaboration tool allowing collaboration and communication within your organization and external one. Teams administrators can control which external organization can communicate with yours. Until then there was no way to block specific individual(s) to communicate with your organization. Well, good news as now Teams administrators can enable a functionality which will
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As you know, you have the option to mark ‘as read’ all chat messages. Well, you now have a more granular option to ‘mark as read’ messages by choosing between All, chats or channels. This allows you to choose to mark as read specific message types while keeping others as unread – such as mark
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A new calendar experience is coming to Teams. The new calendar experience is providing you the same calendar experience as with Outlook. The deployment has been started for Targeted Release with completion expected by end of November. General availability is expected to start mid-January 2025 with completion date set to end of January. With this
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As you may know, there has been more and more threats using Microsoft Teams as communication channel. While Microsoft has already had quite few security features to protect you against threats using Teams – such as message preview for unknown sender or more recently blocking ability for sending message from trial tenant (see Teams –
If you are using Teams for hosting your meetings, you already know attendees can raise their hand when they want to contribute without interrupting the conversation. While everybody, and especially presenters, will see hand has been raised, it is difficult for presenters to identify who raised its hand first, second and so on. Well, good
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As you know, Teams administrators can manage how their end-users can communicate with external contacts – either hosted on another Teams tenants, on-premises Skype for Business or customer’s Skype accounts. With this configuration capabilities, Teams administrators can manage if communication with external contacts is allowed/denied and define if it is widely applied (aka not specific
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