Microsoft Teams

Teams – You can now Pin Teams Channel

Microsoft Teams now allows you to pin Channel, making it easier to define your favorites channels. To start using it, just open your Teams client and open the contextual menu of the channel you want to pin to choose Pin Once a channel is pinned, it will then be displayed below the new Pinned section […]

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Teams – Private channel is now here

It has been announced quite some time ago, Microsoft Teams Private Channel is now available. First thing, you need to ensure your administrator is allowing Private Channel (which should be on by default). To check the policy, logon to your Teams administration portal (https://admin.teams.microsoft.com/) and check the Teams policy/policies to ensure at least Create private

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Teams – You can now define policy package

As you already know you can define Teams policies (aka Messaging, Meeting, Application, Calling or Live Events policies) to define various settings for Teams client. This means for each Teams functionality you had/have to create a policy and then apply it to the users; which then could results in configuration/policy inconsistency as every policy is

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Teams – You can now use Teams Advisor to help you rollout Teams (preview)

While Teams usage is growing, it can be difficult to properly start rolling out Microsoft Teams. Microsoft has deployed a new capability in Teams, called Teams Advisor, to help you rolling out and increase Teams usage. The Teams Advisor assess your Office 365 tenant to determine the most common configuration you may have to implement

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Teams – You can now post in multiple channel at once

Sometime, you need to post message to multiple Teams channels. Until now you had to re write all the time (or a copy/paste) your post across all the channels you wanted to post to. Well, good news, Teams now allows you to post in multiple channel at once. To do that, open your Teams client

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Teams – Teams clients which did not update for more than 3 months will be forced to update

As you may know, the Microsoft Teams client is self-updating itself on a regular basis (documented as every 2 weeks). That being said, it may be possible (and obviously it seems to be the case) that the Teams client is not being updated for a long period of time. To ensure end-users are always running

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Teams – The phone number management is now part of the Teams administration portal

With the move from Skype for Business Online to Microsoft Teams, the Teams product group is being busy to fill all remaining gaps between the 2 products, including administration capabilities. Well, another step has been completed with the integration of the Voice\Phone numbers management capabilities in the Microsoft Teams administration portal (https://admin.teams.microsoft.com/). The phone number

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Teams – Voicemail settings are now available in Teams client

While Microsoft Teams is scheduled to take over Skype for Business Online, Teams client is closing slowly but surely features gap with SfB. A new settings to let end-users manage their voicemail has appear in Teams client. To manage your voicemail settings – including your greeting message – open the Teams client and open the

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Teams – Administrator can define Caller ID policies

As you know, you can integrate Teams with your voice systems (either on-premises using PSTN or using Microsoft Voice or a third party solution). By default, when a Teams user, enabled for voice, make a call, his phone number is being displayed. Teams administrators can define Caller ID policies to manage how user’s phone numbers

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Teams – Your calendar in Teams has been refreshed

Ok, this is not THE killer feature but still worth mentioning it. Your calendar in the Teams client has been refreshed and is no longer limited to display 1 day; you can display 1 day (still), your work week (aka Monday to Friday) or the full week by using the drop down menu available top

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