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Teams – New Remote Connectivity Analyzer test for external user joining meetings

If you use or manage Teams, you probably already have faced the issue that external users may not be able to join a meeting. This situation is always a pain to troubleshoot as it may be due to settings or policies in your tenant or in the external user tenant. Well, good news as the […]

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Teams – You can now control if bot are authorized to join a meeting

As AI is becoming more familiar to end-users, it is also becoming more frequent to have bot joining Teams meeting to assist taking notes, tracking important details or even provide a summary at the end of the meeting. Unfortunately this can also create a security risk when sensitive data are discussed. Well, you can now

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Teams – You can now customize your recording and transcription notifications

As you know, when using Teams for meetings and authorized users (usually organizers) start recording and/or transcription a notification is displayed to all participants. This notification is enabled and can not be disabled. Well, good news as Teams administrators can now customized the notification for recording and transcription. This can be helpful to provide privacy

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Teams – It is now easier to identify raised hands order

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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Teams / Outlook – You can now see the attendees time zone when scheduling meetings

When working with peoples split across different time zone – such as peoples in different countries or on a different time zone within a country, it is not always easy to identify their corresponding time zone and as such their local time. This situation has quite a big impact when scheduling meetings. Well, good news

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Teams – You can now create meeting using template from Outlook

As you know, Teams allows you to create various type of meetings – from one to one/group to webinar or Town Hall. You can also create Teams meeting from Outlook but until now the only meeting template from Outlook was the ‘meeting’. If you wanted to create a Town Hall or webinar meeting from Outlook,

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Teams – You can now share a link when setting up a ‘Join now’ meeting

As you know, you can schedule meetings with Microsoft Teams, including an impromptu one called ‘Meet now’. Until now, when you were starting a ‘Meet now’ meeting you add to directly join the meeting before inviting people. Well, you can now share a link to join the ‘Meet now’ meeting   You will also notice

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Outlook – You can now set your meeting to be online by default

After providing a setting to make your meeting as online meeting in Outlook Web Access (OWA – aka Outlook on the Web) – see https://t.co/rQ6jUyGgh3 – and on Outlook mobile, you can now do the same with Outlook for Windows. The option is turned on by default; you can manage it by accessing the Outlook

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Teams – You can now enable ‘view-only’ attendees

As you know Teams allows up to 10 000 attendees in a meeting, any more participant will not be able to join. Well, after enabling this new setting, these attendees will be able to join the meeting in ‘view-only’ mode. This means they will not be able to share audio/video, see or participate in the

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Teams – You can now start a ‘Meet now’ meeting from Outlook

As you know, you can start a ‘Meet now’ meeting from Teams to initiate a meeting without scheduling it. Well, you can now do the same directly from Outlook by accessing your calendar in Outlook and using the ‘Meet now’ button

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