Be more productive with some new features in Teams

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

Sending a Quick Message from the Command Bar - Microsoft Teams

With this cool new feature, you can @mention either a person or group chat, and send a quick message without having to switch main context in your Teams client. Just enter @person /

Move your email conversation to Microsoft Teams

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

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 /

The Command Bar–Microsoft Teams

Microsoft is releasing a new feature for the Teams client, the Command Bar. This feature allows you to quickly navigate the Teams client using shortcut commands that can be entered into the Search/Command Bar. Some examples you can use: Search for people, files and messages. Change your status using - /busy, /away, /dnd Look up a recent file and open the file using /files Look up someone’s org using **/org ** Navigate to a channel using /goto Call a person using **/call ** Try out other /commands /

Have your Microsoft Teams meeting call you back

If you’ve got a Skype for Business Audio Conferencing license, you’re now able to dial out to your own phone number from a current meeting. This allows you to transfer meeting audio to your phone if you’re having network problems, need to get in the car or on a slow connection. / Click the “i” icon on top of the right screen. Here you can type in your own phone number. Continue reading

Activating Teams Calling -Microsoft Teams

This howto helps you to check/configure Calling in Microsoft Teams. Make sure you have correct licenses on your Office365 tenant. E1 E3 E5 Microsoft Phone System License (this one is included in E5) and a Calling plan (domestic or Domestic + International Calling) / Login to the Skype for Business Online Powershell Make sure you have download the SkypeOnlineConnector for Powershell. Import-Module SkypeOnlineConnector $credential = Get-Credential $session = New-CsOnlineSession -Credential $credential -Verbose Import-PSSession $session Get-Command -Module tmp_mmdx3k5r. Continue reading