Microsoft is now introducing a new virtual event experience called Town Hall. Town Hall will replace Live Events – retirement is scheduled for September 30, 2024. Town Hall can be used to host and deliver large-scale, internal or external events to create connections across an organization. Town hall will replace Teams Live Events and is […]
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As you probably aware, over the past year a new and improved Teams client (Teams 2.0) has been in development and preview. Well, today marks the general availability of this new client for Windows and MacOS. One of the major improvement is a better and seamless cross-tenant (multi-tenant organization or multi-tenant/multi-account) management. To enjoy the
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Until now, participants to Teams webinar were able to access the webinar from unlimited devices. Because registered participants are were/are able to share with others their registration link, this cause discrepancy in attendees report. Now, access to webinar can only be done from 3 concurrent devices, meaning if registered attendees share their
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As you probably know, Microsoft has been developing a new Teams client to provide better performance (more details here https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/new-teams-desktop-admin/). Well, starting September 2023 through December 2023, this new Teams desktop client will be included as part of new and existing Microsoft 365 Apps (Office client). Expected deployment schedule: Business plans September 2023 Enterprise plans
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Today, with Teams Webinar you can not easily identified webinar registered participants from others in the lobby. Good news as now you can automatically let registered users to bypass the webinar lobby. After creating the webinar in Teams, access the meeting options From there you can turn on the options: “Attendees with a registration link
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To improve communication and collaboration, you can now share a link to a specific chat message. To do so, access the Chats section from your Teams desktop client (this is not available (yet?) from the web browser or mobile) to locate the chat and message you want to share Then use the ellipsis (…) menu
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As you may know, when in a meeting with Teams you can use the collaborative annotations while sharing your screen to allow participants to interact by drawing and taking note on the presenter screen. Well, Teams administrators can now control the activation of this feature using meeting policies. NOTE this is enabled by default If
With Microsoft Teams you can now create new types of meeting: Meeting: classic meeting type – already existed Webinar: the webinar meeting type – already existed Town Hall: for company/team town hall – new Virtual Appointment – new Controlled-Content – new Live event: already existed This allows you to create meeting corresponding to your need
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Teams administrators can now enable the explicit consent when a meeting is being recorded. This replace the simple recording notification. This setting is off by default. To enable it you need to use Teams PowerShell (available here https://www.powershellgallery.com/packages/MicrosoftTeams/). Connect-MicrosoftTeams Set-CsTeamsMeetingPolicy –Identity <meeting policy identity>-ExplicitRecordingConsent “Enabled” When the policy is applied, the Teams meeting window will
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After letting you set working hours and location using Outlook Web Access (aka OWA, aka Outlook on the Web) (see https://t.co/kijyFgJvv6), you can now do the same with Teams client. To do so, click on your picture on the Teams client and click on Set your work location for today available just right of your
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