Have you ever tried to send a file to someone outside your organisation in a Teams chat, only to realise you couldn’t attach it directly? Good news: that’s changing! (If your admin enables it) A long time source of confusion in Microsoft Teams has been the fact that “attaching” a file in a chat withContinue reading “File Sharing in Microsoft Teams Chats including External People”
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Threads in Channels
A new feature is rolling out to Microsoft Teams which brings the threaded conversation layout we are familiar with from group chats to Teams channels. Microsoft have made comprehensive documentation available from the Adoption site, so I’d recommend you read those from the links below. But here are the key points you need to knowContinue reading “Threads in Channels”
Powering up the Keyboard in Microsoft Teams
Microsoft Teams has had / commands before via the search bar. For example these screen shots are from October 2020 and show using the search bar in classic Teams with / and @ commands. In New Teams the / list is shorter but still contains the ability to start a chat or call, as wellContinue reading “Powering up the Keyboard in Microsoft Teams”
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 optionContinue reading “Bcc Meeting Invites”
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 oneContinue reading “Teams Premium Meeting Protection”
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,Continue reading “Meeting Templates”
Someone Want to Chat with You
Accept or block chat messages from new contacts to help block spam and phishing chats in Microsoft Teams.
Teams Premium End-to-End Meeting Encryption
Included in Teams Premium end-to-end encryption for meetings provides an additional layer of security
Watermarking your Teams Meeting
Watermarking is a Teams Premium feature intended to be used as a deterrent to stop attendees taking and sharing screenshot of meetings and people in the meeting by overlaying their email address onto the incoming video and shared content.
Setting Teams Meeting Options
With the launch of the preview of the Teams Premium add-on, many of the options require the user to use Meeting Options, yet many users do not routinely look at these and many are unaware of the features available. This article takes a look at where you can access meeting options.
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