Vesa Nopanen – My Metaverse Day
Mr. Metaverse welcomes you to my Metaverse day to explore the Future Work.
Last Thursday, 24th of June 2021, marked a great day - not just for opening Midsummer break in Nordic countries but especially for the announcement(*) of the new Microsoft Teams client along with Windows 11! The new Teams chat, call & meet client was highlighted during the Windows 11 announcements & intro but the true … Continue reading New Microsoft Teams client (2.0) announced with Windows 11!
I got an early access to Squarl application. It is (visioning to become) all-in-one management application that people can use to get all relevant loosely connected bits and pieces into a single application so they can be reviewed and accessed easily later. In short: you can add links, notes and Teams conversations into a single … Continue reading App highlight: Squarl – first impressions
What can be expected to roll out to Microsoft Teams during this summer? Short answer: a lot! Massively! I highlight some of those features in this blog post as a summary. As always - schedules can change. Some features may be pushed back if the testing reveals some issues there. While it does sting when … Continue reading Roadmap watch: what’s coming to Teams during Summer 2021?
I have been very enthusiastic about HoloLens 2 -devices when I first saw them demonstrated during 2019. I have been staying up to about HoloLens throughout these two years - especially thinking and learning about use cases in different industries and bringing in Line of Business applications to it. The latest big news was the … Continue reading Microsoft HoloLens 2 – experiencing the future today
Chat Bubbles is a new feature to display chat messages in Teams meetings that just hit Public Preview (yes, you need to have Public Preview enabled in Teams Desktop client to be able to use these preview features). And no, you don't see them in browser-Teams nor in mobile-Teams at this phase. Just the Desktop … Continue reading Chat Bubbles in Team meetings
It was a pleasant surprise to test our Teams meetings features recently: Laser Pointer & Inking features are available in PowerPoint Live! This means it is possible to start laser-pointing your slides, ink on them (in various colors & thicknesses) to highlight the content and of course use highlighter to really stand something out. I … Continue reading PowerPoint Live in Teams: now with laser pointer and inking!
I had the opportunity to test out Poly's Sync 20 -speakerphone for Teams for couple of months now. Previously I have taken a look at Poly Calisto 5300 in late 2020, so I was really interested to try Sync 20 out. Of course since this too is certified for Microsoft Teams, and optionally comes with … Continue reading Review for Poly Sync 20: a Microsoft Teams certified Speakerphone
I can see Create Task has appeared in Teams Public Preview! This new feature makes it really easy to turn conversation into tasks in your personal To Do or to Team Planner. This saves the trouble of having to activate it yourself and especially the need to do copy-paste to get message contents to Tasks. … Continue reading How to create Task from a message in Teams (Out of the Box version)
It is time to take a brief look at Teams roadmap, since there has been plenty of changes recently. As always, when looking for most up to date information about a specific feature I urge you to check Microsoft 365 Roadmap. This blog post works as a curated summary of those items I feel are … Continue reading Roadmap watch: What new to expect to Microsoft Teams in June 2021 (and a bit beyond)?
Microsoft Teams is getting Shared Channels! This new feature will make it possible to work with other people in a channel by invited an internal or external (in other organizations) members to a Shared Channel. At first the biggest things why this matters: externals don't have to switch tenants to work with you - and … Continue reading Shared Channels: Collaborate beyond borders in Microsoft Teams
Vesa Nopanen - My Metaverse Day 