Priority Notifications in Microsoft Teams

What are priority notifications?

This feature allows a user to mark a chat message in Teams as “Urgent”. Unlike regular “important” messages, Urgent Messages (also known as “priority notifications”) notify users repeatedly for a period of 20 minutes or until messages are picked up and read by the recipient, maximizing the likelihood that the message is picked up and acted upon in a timely manner.

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How to enable?

IT Admins can manage this feature as part of messaging policies in Teams. This feature is on by default for all tenants.

Busy on Busy in Teams

What is Busy on Busy?

Busy on Busy will help you handle a call when a user is already in a call or conference, or has a call placed on hold.

New or incoming calls can be rejected with a busy signal or forwarded to voice mail. The Busy on Busy will work across your devices. /

Enable Busy on Busy in the MoPo

Go to the Teams Admin panel Link

Selec the Voice Menu and go to Calling Policies

Get the hell out of Islands Mode

What’s happening?

More and more organisations are starting explore Microsoft Teams, and in doing this it’s important to understand the interopability options while running in coexistence (Skype for Business Online and Microsoft Teams next to each other).

Like all other vendors, backward compatibility is always difficult ;-) Teams is in this case no exception.

First of all, if your tenant was created before november 2018 you are probally running in Islands mode. You can check this by going to the Teams Admin Portal.

Setup Charles Proxy for Microsoft Teams

What is Charles Proxy

Charles is an HTTP proxy / HTTP monitor / Reverse Proxy that enables a developer to view all of the HTTP and SSL / HTTPS traffic between their machine and the Internet. This includes requests, responses and the HTTP headers (which contain the cookies and caching information).

Install Charles Proxy

You can download the latest version from charlesproxy.com For a full version you will need to buy a license. (It’s worth the $)

Microsoft Teams - Live Events

Live Events

With Microsoft Teams live events, users in your organization can broadcast video and meeting content to large online audiences.

Teams delivers chat-based collaboration, calling, meetings, and with live events, so you can expand the audience of your meetings. Teams live events is an extension of Teams meetings, enabling users to broadcast video and meeting content to a large online audience. These are meant for one-to-many communications where the host of the event is leading the interactions and audience participation is primarily to view the content shared by host. The attendees can watch the live or recorded event in Yammer, Teams, and/or Microsoft Stream, and can interact with the presenters using moderated Q & A or a Yammer conversation.

Sending Audio Messages from the Mobile Teams client

Sending Audio Messages

You are now able to record and send audio messages on the Teams mobile clients. It works for both chat and channel conversations. Web and desktop clients will also support listening of the received audio clips.

Audio message support has been a top customer ask since the early days of the product. (Link to uservoice)

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How to use Microsoft Teams Templates

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”.

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Select “Create team”

Click “Create a team using an existing team as a template”.

Now select your base template that you want to copy.