Teams Meeting

Teams – You can now automatically start recording when joining a meeting

As you know, you can record Teams meeting by manually hitting the Start recording action. Well, you can now automatically start the recording when joining the meeting by edition the meeting options Off course this requires that the organizer has the AllowCloudRecording policy enabled as well as RecordingStorageMode set to OneDriveForBusiness as well as Stream.

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Teams – New Teams attendance report

A new Teams attendance report for meeting (one time and recurring) and webinar is under way. It will provide to the meeting/webinar organizer details about the attendance directly from the Teams client. The deployment is currently underway and should be completed by end of August. NOTE this feature will be turn off by default. To

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Teams – You can now prevent attendees to share their video and/or mic

When it comes to virtual meeting, it always nice to be able to see everybody when they turn on their camera. Well, in certain situation it may be preferable to block attendees to share their video feed to keep the attention on the meeting. You can now block attendees from sharing their video by accessing

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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 – New setting to control 1:1 call recording policy

As you may know, Teams administrators can control by policy call recording for both meeting and 1:1 calls. Well, regarding the 1:1 call recording policy, this is (was) controlled by the AllowCloudRecording global parameter. Starting March 11, 2021, a new parameter – allowCloudRecordingForCalls, specific for 1:1 calls, will be introduced which will be set by

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Teams – Teams meeting organizer can block attendees to unmute themselves

We all have experienced this during online meeting; organizer mute all attendees but then they unmute themselves by mistake and we all hear the background noise. Well, Teams meeting organizer now have the ability to block attendees to unmute themselves. This can be quite useful when you are delivering a one-to-many meeting which requires close

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Teams – You can now spotlight a video during a Teams meeting

When you are on a Teams meeting and participants have turned on their camera, you can now spotlight a specific video stream to all meeting participant – this also works even if the participant did not turned on the camera (but what’s the point). To spotlight a participant, open the contextual menu of the participant

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Teams – Meeting organizer can now manage meeting options from the client

The meeting organizer of a Teams meeting can now update the meeting option from the client. When on the meeting, open the ellipse menu (you know the 3 dots) and choose the Meeting options option And then you can update the options, from who can bypass the lobby to who can present during the meeting

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