Microsoft Teams

Teams – You can now set your availability when setting up a Teams meeting

As you know, when you setup a meeting, your status is going to be always set to “Busy / In Meeting”. Well, good news as now you can set your availability status when setting up a Teams meeting. This capability is available in both Teams client and web browser – this is not (yet?) available […]

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Teams – Delegate your Calling Plans (PSTN) numbers management using this app

As you may know, Teams can integrates with telephony system using Calling Plan. While you can manage numbers using either the Teams administration portal or PowerShell, sometime delegating this management is not as easy as it should – especially when you want to delegate it by scoping location. Well, good news you can now use

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Azure Virtual Desktop / Teams – Support for multi-window and background effects is now available

If you use Teams on Windows/Mac you already know that you can pop-out chat, meetings or document into a separate window, as well as the capability to use a background image. If you are using Azure Virtual Desktop (aka AVD, aka Windows Virtual Desktop, aka WVD) you may also already know that Microsoft has been

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Teams – You can now cast directly from your client to a Teams Room

If you are equipped with Teams Room (see https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/rooms/ to know more) you will be pleased to know that you can now cast directly from your Teams client. Just open you Teams client and open the ellipsis menu (you know the 3 dot …) just on the left side of your organization name and choose

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Teams – You can now install Teams from the Microsoft App Store for Windows

As you know, you can install Teams from different channel; either downloading the client, installing Office Apps or on mobile devices through the App stores. Well, Windows 10 and Windows 11 users can now also use the Microsoft Store on their Windows devices to install Teams.   NOTE if you already have Teams installed it

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Office 365 – You can now manage ownerless Office 365 Groups and Teams

By now, you may be familiar with Office 365 Groups and/or Teams (if not have a look here https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/learn-about-microsoft-365-groups-b565caa1-5c40-40ef-9915-60fdb2d97fa2 or https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/office-365-groups). With time, an Office 365 Group/Teams may have lost its owner(s) as part of the work life cycle when peoples are leaving the organization. This introduces a governance issue as you may ended to

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Teams – You can now create shared channels with guests (preview)

This has been a long awaited capability: creating Teams channels you can share with external users (guests). Well, the wait is over. You can now create shared channels to collaborate with external users without sharing your Teams. NOTE this option is not (yet?) available in Teams on the web, Teams mobile or even the Teams

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Teams – You can now search for users, teams, apps or pages from the Teams administration portal

When working with the Teams administration portal it is sometime difficult to recall where is located a specific settings or other Teams related objects (users, Teams…). Mainly because the portal is being frequently updated and settings are moved from a location to another. Well, you can now use a Search bar in the Teams administration

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Teams – Teams PowerShell module version older than 4.x will be retired

As you know working with PowerShell modules for cloud services can be challenging as you need to keep up with the version. Well, now it is a good time to ensure you are working with the latest version of Teams PowerShell module as any version older than 4.x will be retired by June 15 2022.

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Teams – You can now export data from list pages

As you know it is sometime difficult for Teams administrators to have a complete view of things to work with, especially by using the Teams administration portal. Well, it is now possible to export data from list pages like users, Teams or Teams channel. To do so connect to your Teams administration portal (https://admin.teams.microsoft.com/) and

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