Kelly LaForest

Want to know who attended your Teams meeting? The Teams Attendance Report Excel spreadsheet feature is nice, however… One workaround to allow any attendee to see the attendance list is to use the Meeting Chat. Here’s how:

Hey! If you are watching this video, it is likely because you’ve started working with Regroove, and you need to learn how to switch between different organization’s Teams accounts. If you look in the top right hand corner of (the) Teams app, you will notice to the left of your avatar, there will be a …

Here are the steps to join a Zoom meeting from your browser using the Zoom web client: And here is where to find the in-meeting chat icon: Finally here is the feature comparison list for Zoom desktop client, mobile app, and web client. Did this guide help you join a meeting on Zoom? Let us …

Making sure my coworkers know when I am and will be available is very important to me. In addition to using the Status message in Teams, I also block off time in my Outlook calendar so people and scheduling tools do not try and book me during a time I do not work. Here’s how …

My scheduled work hours have changed several times over the last few months. Making it as easy and clear as possible for my co-workers to know if and when I am and will be available is important to me. I use the Status message field in Teams to have that information be front and center …

Inbox zero is a must in my work life. I try to archive 95% of my emails within the first few minutes of reading them. Why? Because almost all of them have an action item that I can either do right now or want to do later. There are three ways to make a task …

Do you see what I see? Look at these gorgeous links! Yep. You can just copy/paste a “Copy Link” from OneNote or from Teams into the Notes field and have it show up formatted neatly and correctly (and frankly, as it should have been from day one.) THIS. IS. LIFE. CHANGING. Thank you @MicrosoftToDo You …

Task management is hard. With this simple “workflow”, life can get a little easier.Here’s how I manage my tasks: Here is a screenshot of where to locate the “My Day” button in Outlook calendar online: Here is a video of how to copy tasks from OneNote to To Do: This solution requires you to use:

Several readers asked me to post an announcement with photos when my son was born, so here is an update, several months late… Rick LaForest and Kelly LaForest are happy to announce the birth of our son “Alvin”, officially named Albert Richard LaForest V (the fifth), who was born on April 22, 2019 at Victoria …

I have made the decision to step down from the Microsoft MVP Program this year. I will not be submitting any community contributions for the award renewal cycle. I recognize that I have not given back the volume or the quality of contributions to the community that I have in past years. It is clear …