Erwin Bierens

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How to use Microsoft Teams Templates

2018-12-31 1 min read Microsoft Teams Erwin Bierens
Working in project groups means standardize your workflow to work more efficient. Also this has a benefit for your employees to find everything in the same place and structure. Create a Team based on a template. In Microsoft Teams go to “Join or create a team”. / Select “Create team” Click “Create a team using an existing team as a template”. Now select your base template that you want to copy. Continue reading

Changing your presence from the Teams Desktop Client

2018-12-11 1 min read Microsoft Teams Erwin Bierens
Last week Microsoft released the a small but in my opinion a fundamental feature that i was using many times a day in Skype for Business. It’s now possible to change your presence status from either the system tray menu or buttons below the Aero thumbnail and changing the presence from the menu (via profile picture) also still exists. / Aero thumbnail [caption id=“attachment_1989” align=“alignnone” width=“275”] Aero Thumbnail[/caption] System Tray Menu [caption id=“attachment_1990” align=“alignnone” width=“356”] System Tray[/caption] Continue reading

Microsoft Teams administrator roles

2018-12-10 2 min read Microsoft Teams Powershell Erwin Bierens
Microsoft has created four new roles specifically for admins responsible for Microsoft Teams. Roles give people in your organization permission to do specific tasks in the Microsoft 365 admin center. This new admin roles are now available to assign in your Microsoft 365 admin center or by using PowerShell. / Teams service admin Can manage all aspects of Microsoft Teams except license assignment. This includes policies for calling, messaging, and meetings; use of call analytics tools to troubleshoot telephony issues, and management of users and their telephony settings. Continue reading

Be more productive with some new features in Teams

2018-09-24 1 min read Microsoft Teams Erwin Bierens
With the first day of Ignite we already have some new feature announcements for Microsoft Teams / Background blur: In Teams users can blur the background so focus on what matters most. Meeting recording: Meetings are no longer just a point in time experience. With meeting recording in Teams, you or other invitees who missed the meeting can playback recorded audio, video and content at any time. Pull up a transcript, powered by Microsoft Stream, and search for keywords so you can optimize your time while getting caught up. Continue reading

Move your email conversation to Microsoft Teams

2018-03-30 2 min read Microsoft Teams Erwin Bierens
Do you recognize the situation that you have a Team in Microsoft Teams and members of the team keep sending you emails instead of using the chat and collaboration functions in Teams? You can now move your email conversation including the attachments to your Teams channel and continue the conversation in your Teams channel. / Let’s move your conversation to Teams channel In the Teams client while selecting the channel where you want to port your conversation to you can click on the … now select “Get email address” Continue reading

Anonymous Meeting Join in Microsoft Teams

2018-02-21 1 min read Microsoft Teams Erwin Bierens
Microsoft has released the Anonymous Join feature for Teams Meetings. You can use this feature by the following procedure. Create and join a scheduled or adhoc meeting Copy the meeting join information, you can do this by opening the meeting after creating. Launch either Edge (In-Private) or Chrome (Incognito) _ // Firefox and Safari are not supported yet_ Paste the meeting join URL into the address bar When prompted, use the web client to join the meeting anonymously Admit the anonymous user into the meeting from the lobby /
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