Microsoft Teams Meeting

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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As you know, if your Teams administrator has allowed anonymous users to join a meeting, these anonymous participants can use the Teams chat feature to interact with others. Well, this chat access can potentially lead to data exfiltration. To continue allowing anonymous users to join a Teams meeting but lock down the access to the …

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When joining a Teams meeting you now can enable spatial audio to allow a more immersive experience; especially when you are using device supporting spatial audio, like in a meeting room. This new audio experience spatializes the voices of attendees across the visual meeting stage in the Gallery view. This helps make conversations more natural, …

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UPDATED added a way to block the use of Snapchat – see end of the post I personally find this should not be on Teams (for Work) but here it is: you can now use Snapchat lenses during a Teams meeting. A collection of 20+ of the most popular Snapchat Lenses are now available. To …

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When in a Teams meeting, you already know that you can apply effects – such as background – when you have your camera on. Well, you can now do the same directly from the Join meeting. When enabling our camera when joining the meeting, just click on the Video effects to open the effects settings …

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The presenter window experience in Teams has always been a little bit problematic during screen sharing. Presenters were not always able to easily interact with the audience (hand raised for example) or quickly manage its own settings (mute, camera, stop sharing….). Well, good news a new and improved presenter window experience is coming. Currently being …

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Good news for your meeting participants with hearing issue, they can now use sign language. When enabling sign language, an interpreter has to be selected which will then be placed in a central and static location to assist participant. The sign language view is only visible to participant turning it on. The roll out is …

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If you use Teams, you may already know that you can join a Teams meeting using multiple device, instead of transferring the connection. In this situation you are connected to the Teams meeting on 2 or more devices, which then may lead you to stay connected on other devices when leaving the meeting or when …

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