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Getting Ready for Mesh Immersive Spaces

With Mesh Immersive spaces coming to public preview as announced on Sept 26th 2023, you may wish to prepare your tenant. Immersive spaces will only be supported in the classic client initially.  To use immersive spaces in meetings users will need to be able to switch to the Teams public preview (see Microsoft Learn for…

Prepare for New Teams

There are two new announcements about Microsoft Teams the administrator need to be aware of.  These were published on June 30th 2023 via the Microsoft 365 Roadmap and in the Message Center. Teams administrators can set the New Teams control via an update policy in the Teams Admin Center or using Powershell.  The default value…

First Steps with Viva Pulse Preview

Viva Pulse public preview is available as announced on the Microsoft Viva Blog. This is a visual walkthrough of the first steps. (EDIT: I missed a step in the original version, this post has been edited to include configuring notifications) To get started using a Global Admin account visit https://pulse.viva.cloud.microsoft/ Things to note on this…

Bcc Meeting Invites

Do you need to send meeting invites without disclosing the distribution list? In email we can use the Bcc field to send emails to lots of people whilst keeping their email addresses confidential, and whilst that feature is not available in meeting invites, there is an option which achieves the same result. The required option…

Teams Premium Meeting Protection

Microsoft Teams Premium is an add-on to Microsoft 365 and brings additional features.  In this blog series we’ll explore each of the 5 categories of features: I’ve also written an overview of Teams Premium and who needs it and a first steps guide for the public preview or all my Teams Premium articles on one…

Meeting Templates

Meeting templates will help users create meetings with the correct settings in meeting options as the template applies those setting automatically.  The meeting templates also help with governance as they enforce the meeting options set in the template.  Templated meetings published to the user show up on the New Meeting button in the Teams client,…

Someone Want to Chat with You

Accept or block chat messages from new contacts to help block spam and phishing chats in Microsoft Teams.

Custom Video Filters

Custom Video filters are rolling out to Teams Public Preview ring at the time of writing. The Microsoft provided filters enable applying colour filters to your video feed such as Black and White And also applying a overlay Both work with virtual backgrounds and video, but will not support the upcoming Avatars. Whilst this feature…

Sensitivity Labels in Teams Meetings

Sensitivity labels can now be assigned to meetings as part of Teams Premium.  This provides the ability to limit access to the meeting invite and responses in Outlook and Teams as well as the meeting and chat in Teams as well as enforce meeting options for the meeting.  Sensitivity Labels will be best used in…

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