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Teams – You can now manage who can bypass the lobby

Leave a Comment / Microsoft Teams / Benoit HAMET / July 30, 2019 / Lobby, Microsoft Teams, Teams

Microsoft Teams meeting policy has been updated to allow you to manage who can bypass the lobby. You can update your existing (and/or default) meeting policies to define who can bypass the lobby, including dial-in users if required by accessing the Teams administration portal (https://admin.teams.microsoft.com) and reaching the Meetings\Meeting policies section And then edit the […]

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Teams – Register for Microsoft Teams Previews

Leave a Comment / Beta / Preview, Microsoft Teams / Benoit HAMET / July 8, 2019 / Microsoft Teams, Preview, Teams

As you may be already aware, there has been a website on which you can register to join Skype for Business preview (https://www.skypepreview.com/). Well, now you also have the same possibility for Microsoft Teams. You can register at the following address http://aka.ms/JoinTAP100 to join Microsoft Teams preview programs. By joining this preview program, you will

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Teams – Real time presence is coming

Leave a Comment / Microsoft Teams, Office 365 / Benoit HAMET / June 21, 2019 / Microsoft Teams, O365, Office 365, Teams

Well it’s about time, real time presence in Teams is being rolled out. This means when your status changes (like ‘in a meeting’ or ‘in a call’), your updated status is being visible to others immediately. The roll out is scheduled to start early July and finish by August.

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Teams – Stand out your post using the “Announcement” type

Leave a Comment / Microsoft Teams, Office 365 / Benoit HAMET / June 12, 2019 / Microsoft Teams, Teams

A new post type has been added to Microsoft Teams to help you pushing announcement or important message by standing out from the mass of messages If you want to publish an announcement in Teams, click on the Format button (bottom of conversation box) and switch from New conversation to Announcement Then the conversation

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Office 365 – The Adoption Resources center, your one shop for adoption documentation

Leave a Comment / Microsoft Teams, Office 365 / Benoit HAMET / June 6, 2019 / Microsoft Teams, O365, OdB, ODfB, Office 365, OneDrive, OneDrive for Business, SharePoint Online, SPO, Teams, Yammer

A new central location for regrouping all adoption documentation for Office 365 services is now live at https://aka.ms/microsoftadoption You can find there the latest and updated adoption documentation for Office 365 services, like Microsoft Office 365 Adoption Guide, the new security and compliance toolkit or Teams governance. Start enjoying this location for your adoption journey

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Teams – You can now define holidays

Leave a Comment / Microsoft Teams, Office 365 / Benoit HAMET / June 4, 2019 / Holidays, Microsoft Teams, O365, Office 365, Teams

Microsoft Teams now allows you to define your organization holidays (aka the period your organization is shutting down and won’t be available for business). This can be linked with auto-attendant you may have configured for voice capabilities. To start using it and configure your next organization time off, go to your Teams administration portal (https://admin.teams.microsoft.com)

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Teams – Read receipts are coming in Teams

Leave a Comment / Microsoft Teams, Office 365 / Benoit HAMET / May 27, 2019 / Microsoft Teams, Teams

When in 1:1 or group chat, end-users can now get read receipts when their messages are read. Teams administrator can control if read receipts is enabled/disabled/user preference (default) from the Teams administration portal (https://admin.teams.microsoft.com) under the Messaging Policies

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Teams – You can connect to Azure pipelines using Teams

Leave a Comment / Microsoft Azure, Microsoft Teams / Benoit HAMET / May 27, 2019 / Azure, Azure Pipelines, Microsoft Azure, Microsoft Teams, Pipelines, Teams

You can now connect to your Azure Pipelines from Microsoft Teams. To do so, add the Azure Pipelines application in your Teams by accessing the Teams app catalog and search for Azure Pipelines (or Azure, or Pipelines) – you can also browse the Productivity category Then select the Teams where the Pipelines app will be

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Office 365 – Office 365 Groups/Teams naming policy is now manageable from Azure AD portal

Leave a Comment / Azure Active Directory, Microsoft Teams, Office 365 / Benoit HAMET / May 17, 2019 / AAD, Azure Active Directory, Azure AD, Microsoft Teams, O365, Office 365, Office 365 Groups, Teams

You may already know that you can define naming policy for your Office 365 Groups, which also applies to Microsoft Teams. Until now, this was done by connection with PowerShell. Now, you can manage (create/update) your naming policy as well as the blocked words list from your Azure AD portal. Connect to your Azure (https://portal.azure.com)

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Teams – You can create new Teams based on existing one

Leave a Comment / Microsoft Teams, Office 365 / Benoit HAMET / May 17, 2019 / Microsoft Teams, Office 365 Groups, Teams

A new Microsoft Teams creation process has been added to help you creating new Teams. The option allows you to reuse an existing Teams or Office 365 Groups to select as ‘template’ when creating a new Teams Off course, the first requirement is to be already owner of at least one Teams or Office 365

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