Month: January 2021

How to: initiate a document approval directly in team files tab (using Power Automate)

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The new Approval application is a very useful tool for multiple use cases that requires approval. One of it's great benefits is that it brings the approval process directly onto Teams - where the users are. It simultaneously sends also the approval in email for users so they can choose where they act on the … Continue reading How to: initiate a document approval directly in team files tab (using Power Automate)

How to set up and use Task Publishing in Teams

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Task Publishing was recently made available in Microsoft Teams. The general info about Task Publishing can be found in here. In this article I lay out how you can get started while following also the documentation presented here. 21.1.2021 updated this post with task list housekeeping (unpublish, duplicate, delete) Microsoft defines Task Publishing very well … Continue reading How to set up and use Task Publishing in Teams

How to: adding a Microsoft Whiteboard to a team channel as a tab

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Microsoft Whiteboard is a great tool in the Microsoft 365 belt: allowing innovative & visual planning while keeping the data inside the tenant. And of course one big benefit is that it is included with the license. There is still room for improvement with Microsoft Whiteboard but one of the roadmap items just completed: adding … Continue reading How to: adding a Microsoft Whiteboard to a team channel as a tab

The Ultimate How To Guide for Presenting Content in Microsoft Teams

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Sharing / presenting content in Teams meeting is at the same time simple but is also has some options available that may not be known enough by everyone. This guide lets you get started and dive deeper what happens when you share your window, document or desktop in Microsoft Teams. This article will be updated … Continue reading The Ultimate How To Guide for Presenting Content in Microsoft Teams

Teams Roadmap Watch – mid January 2021

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Here are some latest updates to Teams Roadmap. As usual - refer to the source for the up to date situation. One big change is the Meeting attendee registration (=webinar support) that moved from January to March 2021. FeatureIDDescriptionAddedUpdatedRelease66586Microsoft Teams: Meeting attendee registration22.9.202015.1.2021March CY202170558OneDrive: 250 GB file size support in Microsoft 36513.1.202115.1.2021February CY202170573Microsoft Teams: Large … Continue reading Teams Roadmap Watch – mid January 2021

How to create your own Teams Meeting apps with Power Apps

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Ability to add Forms and other apps to Meetings become possible in November 2020. When meeting apps were announced Power Apps logo was included from the start. Meanwhile we have seen more and more apps that you can add to meetings (like Polly). Today I discovered how you can add your own Power Apps to … Continue reading How to create your own Teams Meeting apps with Power Apps

How to deploy the Company Communicator (App Template application) to multitenant setup

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If you are aware about Microsoft App Template's then you have come across Company Communicator. The most safe way to deploy the Company Communicator is to make sure that your Azure subscription and Office 365 are in the same tenant. But that is not always the case. In this blog post I highlight what to … Continue reading How to deploy the Company Communicator (App Template application) to multitenant setup

How to: adding the new Channel Calendar to team channel

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The Channel Calendar feature made it's appearance to Microsoft Teams today in few of my tenants! This is a long-awaited feature indeed - the channel meetings won't be lost anymore!What this is: A Calendar app to channel meetings that have been scheduled in that team in that channel and to creating new onesThis is NOT … Continue reading How to: adding the new Channel Calendar to team channel

Screen recording tools 2021

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This is a topic that comes forward very often: how can one record a screen video and then edit it afterwards. What options there are available and how they work in the real scenarios? There are several (plenty) tools available but let me highlight a few. I am happy to see more tools listed in … Continue reading Screen recording tools 2021

Roadmap Watch: what to expect for Microsoft Teams in January 2021?

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Year 2021 is here. Microsoft Teams, and Microsoft/Office 365 is getting a big number of updates. Just looking what is scheduled for January 2021 that is a big list of interesting capabilities! Some highlights from the list. Share System Audio on Mac is showing as cancelled because there were a duplicate item. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?searchterms=67168&filters=&searchterms=67168 (thank you … Continue reading Roadmap Watch: what to expect for Microsoft Teams in January 2021?

Teams Application highlight: Perfect Wiki

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Microsoft Teams application store has a big number of applications in it. It means also that it can hold in apps that could be useful to many organizations - but they just don't know that such an app exists. I thought I check out some of them once an a while to share the information … Continue reading Teams Application highlight: Perfect Wiki