Microsoft Teams

Teams – You can now spotlight a video during a Teams meeting

When you are on a Teams meeting and participants have turned on their camera, you can now spotlight a specific video stream to all meeting participant – this also works even if the participant did not turned on the camera (but what’s the point). To spotlight a participant, open the contextual menu of the participant […]

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Teams – Meeting organizer can now manage meeting options from the client

The meeting organizer of a Teams meeting can now update the meeting option from the client. When on the meeting, open the ellipse menu (you know the 3 dots) and choose the Meeting options option And then you can update the options, from who can bypass the lobby to who can present during the meeting

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Teams – You can now transfer to another device your on-going meeting

You know you can schedule and join meeting from Teams from any device using the Teams client. Well, now you can even join a meeting on device (let say your Windows device) and then transfer it to your mobile device. To be able to do so, first you need to have the Teams client installed

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Teams – You can use a call-in number for free for 1 year

As you know Teams is the meeting client replacing Skype for Business Online for online meetings. Microsoft is currently offering 1 year free for call-in number. The offer is available until March 31, 2021. If you want to take advantage of this 1 year free of call-in, logon to your Office 365 administration portal (https://admin.microsoft.com/)

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Teams – Administrators can now review application permissions

As you know Teams is the collaboration hub from Office 365, allowing your users to  collaborate, join/organize meetings… Teams is also an application platform, allowing your users to access other services (like DevOps, GitHub, CRM…) directly from the Teams clients. Most of these applications requires some permissions to, at least read user profile details. Well,

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Teams – You will be able to save meeting recording in user’s OneDrive

As you know, you can record Teams meetings. These recordings are currently saved in Stream. Well, you will soon be able to save these recording in OneDrive. This applies only to non channel meetings; channel meetings will be saved under a folder named Recording with the name of the channel in the team’s document library.

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Teams – New meeting join experience

Joining a meeting with Teams is now becoming easier. When you to join a meeting using Teams, you don’t need anymore to open the meeting in your calendar. Now when you just click to select the meeting, an overlap pop-up appears to let you join the meeting directly; you can also change your attendance from

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Teams – you can now create new Teams based on Templates

You can now create new Teams based on template. These templates will automatically create the new Teams with channels and apps associated with it. You have 13 ‘out of the box’ Teams models available, covering needs from adoption to store management or service desk (you can get details about these templates here https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/MicrosoftTeams/get-started-with-teams-templates-in-the-admin-console#what-are-base-template-types) You can

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Teams – The Skype for Business PowerShell is no longer required

As an Office 365/Teams administrator, you know you need both the Skype for Business Online and Teams PowerShell modules. Well, good news this is no longer the case as the Skype for Business Online commands have been merged with the Teams PowerShell module (with the version 1.1.6) You can install the Teams PowerShell module using

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Teams – Update for the automatic admittance in Teams Meeting

As you know, when setting up a Teams meeting you can define who can be automatically admitted to join the meeting, defined by your Teams administrator using Meeting policies. Until now, there was few options between everyone, everyone in your organization and everyone in your organization and federated ones, Well, you can now also automatically

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