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Microsoft Teams for Education During Covid-19
Schools are closed but Education doesn’t have to stop. Microsoft Teams for Education makes it possible to continue learning remotely during this Global “Social Distancing” time. With Teams for Education your Teachers will be able to: Teams for Education includes the necessary tools to manage classes and remote learning such as Assignments, Grade books and …
Read onHow To Pin an Application To Microsoft Teams Navigation
What is a “Pinned Application”? “Pinned Applications” in Teams appear in the Navigation Menu. The purpose of this post is to outline the process of “Pinning” applications. This is accomplished by using the Teams Apps Permission and Setup Policies from the Teams Admin portal. Why Would I Want to “Pin” an Application in Teams? Your …
Read onMicrosoft Teams: My Typical Morning
In the Modern Workplace there can be a lot of new gadgets, widgets, apps and tools. I’ve tried many, I’ve liked many but not as much as I “Love” Microsoft Teams! My Typical Work Day Morning Remember the days of logging into your workstation and opening Outlook, Excel, Skype (or Messenger if you can recall …
Read onMicrosoft Teams – My Favorite Top 5 Features
#5 – Location, Location, Location I can be anywhere, literally, and still connect to my colleagues with Teams. I can choose from my mobile phone app if I am on the go or I can connect to the Teams online web app from any location/device that has internet access. #4 – One Window, No More …
Read onMicrosoft Teams Auto Attendant – Redirect to another number
Set up your Auto Attendant to redirect the call to an external number using this workaround. Why Would You Want This? Recently I had a client that was being inundated by calls for another branch of their company. Ultimately the Operator was always having to take the call and inform the caller that they had …
Read onHow to Export Teams Chat History
Microsoft Teams data has many different locations. And while some locations make it easy to access and export data, others do not. Take Teams Chat History for example. This data lives in a folder of a Group mailbox. This, however, is not a typical mailbox and as such cannot be accessed in a typical way. …
Read onMS Teams & “External Apps”
What? Recently we came across an issue within our Tenancy where we could not see the new “Teams Apps” features in the Teams Admin portal. Many of our clients tenancies had this feature available to them when it rolled out to General Availability. Given that our tenancy is set to Targeted Release we were puzzled …
Read onOffice Pro Plus Includes Teams
Just a quick post so you don’t pull out your hair on this one. Is Teams included in Office Pro Plus installs? Yes! In the past, Microsoft Teams was a separate installation from Office 365 ProPlus. But starting with Version 1902, Teams is included as part of new installations of Office 365 ProPlus. Great! So what’s the …
Read onFavorites Folder Missing from MS Teams Contacts
I had a client that had a requirement to “Disable” Skype for Business in their Office 365 Tenancy. I set out to do this and disabled it in Azure AD at an Enterprise Applications level and also set it to disabled in each users license. I didn’t think this would cause any issues since the …
Read onAdd a ‘Room’ to a Teams Meeting Location
You just got Teams. You’ve installed the desktop app and you love it! It’s purple… life is good! Time to create your first Meeting. So exciting! But wait…what’s this? Why can’t you choose any Meeting Locations? And why is that error message not helpful? Ok now what? PowerShell to the rescue of course! Assuming there …
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