File Sharing in Microsoft Teams Chats including External People

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”

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”

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 featureContinue reading “Custom Video Filters”