Teams

Teams – Allow communication with specified trial tenant

As introduced few month ago, Microsoft has deployed a settings to block (default) communication with trial Teams tenants (which include Visual Studio ones) (see Teams – You can now block federation with trial tenants). It was first only configurable using PowerShell and now is also available from the Teams administration portal (Users\External access blade) Well, […]

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Teams – You can now block individual people from communicating with your organization

Teams is a powerful collaboration tool allowing collaboration and communication within your organization and external one. Teams administrators can control which external organization can communicate with yours. Until then there was no way to block specific individual(s) to communicate with your organization. Well, good news as now Teams administrators can enable a functionality which will

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Teams – You now have more granularity for ‘mark as read’

As you know, you have the option to mark ‘as read’ all chat messages. Well, you now have a more granular option to ‘mark as read’ messages by choosing between All, chats or channels. This allows you to choose to mark as read specific message types while keeping others as unread – such as mark

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Teams – New calendar experience

A new calendar experience is coming to Teams. The new calendar experience is providing you the same calendar experience as with Outlook. The deployment has been started for Targeted Release with completion expected by end of November. General availability is expected to start mid-January 2025 with completion date set to end of January. With this

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Teams – Add additional security to your meetings with external participants with Captcha (preview)

As you may know, there has been more and more threats using Microsoft Teams as communication channel. While Microsoft has already had quite few security features to protect you against threats using Teams – such as message preview for unknown sender or more recently blocking ability for sending message from trial tenant (see Teams –

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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 – You can now block federation with trial tenants

As you know, Teams administrators can manage how their end-users can communicate with external contacts – either hosted on another Teams tenants, on-premises Skype for Business or customer’s Skype accounts. With this configuration capabilities, Teams administrators can manage if communication with external contacts is allowed/denied and define if it is widely applied (aka not specific

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Teams – You can now define the name of the default channel when creating a Teams

As you know, when you create a new Teams it automatically create a new default channel (aka first channel) called General. Well, that was before as now you can name this default channel during the Teams creation. This option is available on both Teams client and Teams on the web. A side note when naming

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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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