Month: March 2021

Join Teams meeting via a code, multiple spotlights, co-organizer meeting roles, new lobby options and other recent roadmap updates

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Microsoft Teams roadmap keeps getting a lots of changes weekly - if not even daily sometimes. There are great new additions that should be taken looked at so you can start preparing your champions and users to take full advantage of those once they roll out: Join a meeting by entering a digital code will … Continue reading Join Teams meeting via a code, multiple spotlights, co-organizer meeting roles, new lobby options and other recent roadmap updates

Registration to Teams Nation May 2021 Community Conference is OPEN!

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Have you heard about Teams Nation Community Conference? I felt it was important to highlight this to readers of my blog since I am one of organizers in this event. Those following me in social have hopefully heard about Teams Nation before - and in the best option you have already registered to it (Thank … Continue reading Registration to Teams Nation May 2021 Community Conference is OPEN!

How to set Out of Office in Microsoft Teams

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Setting your Out of Office in Microsoft Teams has become available, if you are in Public Preview. Take a look in this article and learn how you can set your Out of Office without having to open Outlook. First - you need to make sure you are in Public Preview (situation in 25.3.2021). If you … Continue reading How to set Out of Office in Microsoft Teams

PowerPoint Live / Presenter View in Microsoft Teams

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The terminology is always as much fun as it is 🙄😁 but PowerPoint Live is the name for a set of presentation "skills" inside Microsoft Teams. There is still some features waiting for release like new Share content experience and Presenter Mode (standout / custom layouts). What is already out is Presenter View when sharing … Continue reading PowerPoint Live / Presenter View in Microsoft Teams

Microsoft Teams Breakout Rooms is getting new features! + other roadmap updates

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When looking at Microsoft Teams roadmap today I noticed that Breakout Rooms is getting new features! Scheduled to roll out already in this month are Timer: Organizers can now set a timer for Breakout rooms from the Breakout Room settings. After timer has expired, rooms will automatically close and participants will come back to the … Continue reading Microsoft Teams Breakout Rooms is getting new features! + other roadmap updates

Microsoft Teams Meetings in Virtual Reality

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At the Microsoft Ignite we saw - no, we participated - in a keynote in Virtual Reality. You were able to participate using a VR headset or your computer using an app but also you were able to view it "normally" as a broadcast. That keynote and subsequent Microsoft Ignite sessions let us know about … Continue reading Microsoft Teams Meetings in Virtual Reality

Microsoft Whiteboard in Android mobiles

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Microsoft Whiteboard Android (preview) application was recently released. Let's take a look what is can do and what features it packs! You may want to also refresh your memory with my earlier Microsoft Whiteboard articles: How to use Microsoft Whiteboard with guests in Teams MeetingsHow to: adding a Microsoft Whiteboard to a team channel as … Continue reading Microsoft Whiteboard in Android mobiles

Roadmap Watch: Latest changes to Microsoft Teams roadmap

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Microsoft Teams Roadmap gets constant updates. With these posts I make it easy for readers to see what are latest changes in Microsoft Teams or related products/features roadmap. As always if you want to see the up to date situation check out the public roadmap - blog post is always a snapshot of that moment … Continue reading Roadmap Watch: Latest changes to Microsoft Teams roadmap

Creating Teams Meeting Connected Power Apps

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I have earlier blogged about creating a Power (canvas) App you could add to your meetings. This time we are taking a big leap forward by making the application meeting connected and "aware"! This means that your application knows it is inside a meeting that it can be used in that particular meeting context: like … Continue reading Creating Teams Meeting Connected Power Apps

Microsoft Teams Roadmap Watch: updates of Microsoft Ignite 2021

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It is always good to take a look at the Microsoft Teams roadmap and see what is changing there since Microsoft Ignite 2021 #MSIgnite. Of course roadmap dates are not exact launch dates but they can give some idea when to expect those features. Shared Channels (Microsoft Teams Connect) is scheduled for June 2021! And … Continue reading Microsoft Teams Roadmap Watch: updates of Microsoft Ignite 2021

Microsoft Teams News Summary of Microsoft Ignite 2021 March

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The virtual Microsoft Ignite 2021 - #MSIgnite in the Twitter and other social media- just opened and gates of information released a big bunch of information what is going to happen in Microsoft Tech for this year. In this blog post I am going to focus mostly on news concerning Microsoft Teams or related technologies. … Continue reading Microsoft Teams News Summary of Microsoft Ignite 2021 March

Power Fx – a low code programming language for Power Platform

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Striking news at Microsoft Ignite 2021 Spring - announcement about Power Fx, which is going to be the low code programming language for Power Platform. When a lots of enterprise application development is already in the low-code category it is clear to see why Microsoft is investing in this area. It is very much needed … Continue reading Power Fx – a low code programming language for Power Platform

How to improve File Approval process to include multiple source libraries

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This part III article in the series of adding a file approval action directly to Teams File Tab. Following my earlier posts (How to create an improved Microsoft Teams Files approval process using Azure Logic Apps and  How to: initiate a document approval directly in team files tab (using Power Automate) ) this one adds multiplexing: the … Continue reading How to improve File Approval process to include multiple source libraries

Microsoft Ignite 2021 March: See you at the event!

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Tomorrow 2nd of March is the big day: Microsoft Ignite 2021 begins at 17:30 CET! It will be two (long) days of learning, networking and riding the hype. While we all would love to see in person this March event is fully virtual and thus really inclusive for everyone due to lack of travel or … Continue reading Microsoft Ignite 2021 March: See you at the event!