Erwin Bierens

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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.

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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”

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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

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  • 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

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The Command Bar–Microsoft Teams

2018-01-29 1 min read Microsoft Teams Erwin Bierens

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

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Have your Microsoft Teams meeting call you back

2018-01-18 1 min read Microsoft Teams Erwin Bierens

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.

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Click the “i” icon on top of the right screen.

Here you can type in your own phone number.

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Activating Teams Calling -Microsoft Teams

2018-01-12 1 min read Microsoft Teams Erwin Bierens

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)

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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.cuh

Check your tenant settings

Get-CsTeamsCallingPolicy

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Microsoft Teams - Connect to Powershell

2017-11-06 1 min read Microsoft Teams Powershell Erwin Bierens

Hi Guys,

Microsoft recently(11-2017) released the Powershell Cmdlets (still in beta), which gives you the opportunity to manage Microsoft Teams by Powershell.

Installing

To get started you wil first need to install the Microsoft Teams Powershell module. You can do this by using the following command:

    Install-Module -Name MicrosoftTeams

install-module MicrosoftTeams

Loading module

Once you have installed a module on your system, you will likely want to import the module in order to use it. Importing is the process that loads the module into active memory, so that a user can access that module in their PowerShell session. You can use the following cmdlet te import the MicrosoftTeams module.

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Enable External (guest) Access for Microsoft Teams

2017-09-12 1 min read Microsoft Teams Erwin Bierens

Microsoft has released Guest Access for Microsoft Teams, but Microsoft Teams guest access is a tenant-level setting and is turned off by default, so i will show you how to turn this on.

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Turn on Guest Access on tenant level

Go to your Admin portal, Settings, Services and Addins and select Microsoft Teams. Or use the link below.

https://portal.office.com/adminportal/home#/Settings/ServicesAndAddIns

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Invite guests to your Team

go to your Team you want to share and insert the guest users email address

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