This week on the 365 Message Center Show New scenes for Together Mode bring meeting attendees together with different backgrounds. Four new scenes for displaying video from up to 50 attendees and two scenes of a new 5-attendee size. Don't worry if you haven't chosen the right size. Other attendees will display below the scene and you can change to a different scene if the meeting size increases. In this episode: – Teams support for 3×3 recordings – Announcing Teams public preview for end users – Introducing new scenes to Together Mode – Upcoming changes to topics and hashtags in Yammer – Microsoft Productivity Score soon to be generally available…
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Reducing background noise in Microsoft Teams meetings – #168
This week on the 365 Message Cent0er Show Microsoft Teams will soon offer AI powered background noise suppression. We've seen it in demos. How will it work in reality? How will it perform in an open floor office? A café? Or is it meant to help remote workers who have to work in shared spaces at home? In this episode: – Increasing team membership to 25,000 members per team – Microsoft Teams: Increasing the org-wide team limit from 5,000 to 10,000 – Play My Emails in Outlook for iOS and Android launching internationally – Reducing background noise in Microsoft Teams meetings – Introducing commenting in Microsoft Lists – Outgoing screen-sharing…
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Microsoft Teams Virtual Breakout Rooms – #167
This week on the 365 Message Cent0er Show Improve the level of interaction between meeting attendees with virtual breakout rooms. Limitations of audio technology mean only one person can speak and be clearly heard at one time in an online meeting. Teams breakout rooms provide a smaller, isolated place to converse, collaborate and create. In this episode: – Sharing links that block video file download – Outlook on the web, Project Moca preview – Microsoft Teams – Virtual Breakout Rooms – Modern capability to add custom content types in SharePoint – Meeting chat moderation settings – Transfer Teams meeting between devices or add another device Join Daniel Glenn and Darrell…
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New personalisation with My Feed web part – #166
This week on the 365 Message Center Show Organizations that personalize their Intranet and team sites have another tool at their disposal. The My Feed web part shows content specific to you, based on your activity and contacts within your organization. Content includes your next meeting, a Microsoft Team and channel you frequently visit, or a recording of a meeting you attended recently. Where would you use this new web part? – My Feed web part – Forms: Specific user sharing for response collection – Set duration on presence status in Teams – Organizers can manage meeting options in the meeting experience – Forms is getting a new start page…
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Microsoft Software Giveaway – October 2020 Edition
Fall / Autumn seems like a good season to do a giveaway, don't you think? I am giving away the following software during my Microsoft Software Giveaway – Fall 2020 Edition! Read the ‘How to Win' and ‘Rules” sections below for all the details. [rafflepress id=”2″] Microsoft Software Giveaway Microsoft 365 Family Subscription ($99.99 USD value – 1 year) Share your subscription with up to 5 other people and more! More information on the Microsoft 365 website. Follow me on Twitter for updates!
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Free Audio Conferencing for Microsoft Teams
Providing a call-in number for your meetings is a great way to make sure your attendees can join. Even if attendees can't use the Teams client, they can dial-in and participate. Microsoft Teams, via the Microsoft 365 Audio Conferencing add-in, allows your meeting organizers to provide a dial-in number for all attendees. Announced October 12th, 2020, Microsoft will provide a free Dial-in Audio Conferencing for Microsoft Teams option! How to Get the Free Audio Conferencing for Microsoft Teams Check out this video showing how to enable the free option! The offer details: You must order the add-on for each user you want to schedule a meeting with a dial-in number…
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Prevent attendees from unmuting in Teams Meetings – #165
This week on the 365 Message Center Show There are some Teams meetings you run where you wish you could have prevented attendees from unmuting. Education are happy to see this update. But it also makes it possible for organizations to run more controlled, large format meetings. Here what Daniel has to say as he covers this update. That is, if Darrell doesn't prevent him from unmuting as he organizes the meeting. – Prevent attendees from unmuting in Teams Meetings – OneNote feed in Outlook for the web – SharePoint: Organization chart web part – General availability of SharePoint Syntex – Introducing Designer in Word – Notifications coming to the…
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M365 Friday Cincinnati 2020
M365 Friday Cincinnati 2020 is occurring Friday October 23rd, 2020! The event will be virtual, and it will feature so many great sessions and speakers! My session, Using Your On-prem Data in a Cloud World, will showcase how you can use your data in Microsoft 365 no matter where it lives. The list of sessions is amazing with so many great speakers and sessions! Register and then check out all the sessions! Resources Using Your On-prem Data in a Cloud World – Cincinnati 2020 (Slides) Power Apps Community Plan
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Microsoft Teams meeting recordings saved to OneDrive / SharePoint – #164
This week on the 365 Message Center Show Sharing meeting recordings with guests is about to get easier. Microsoft Teams will soon record meetings to OneDrive or SharePoint. Then you can share the recording like to share any file with a guest. – New Power Automate for Teams – Microsoft Teams: meeting recordings saved to OneDrive and SharePoint – Calendar view on Microsoft List and SharePoint Lists – Push notifications for work accounts in To Do – List creation from templates visual refresh – Introducing tags in the Message Center Join Daniel Glenn and Darrell as a Service Webster as they cover the latest messages in the Microsoft 365 Message…
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Introducing Microsoft Teams templates – #163
This week on the 365 Message Center Show Create a new Microsoft Team based on a template and get your team off to the right start. 13 new base templates will soon be available to support activities such as managing a project, onboard employees. Use one of the 13 or as an admin, create your own template. Set channel structure, Team level settings, pin tabs and pre-install apps to show in a template. #MSIgnite – Microsoft Teams: Windows 10 native notifications in Teams AND Introducing macOS native notifications in Teams – Introducing Microsoft Teams templates – Organizational branding of Teams custom apps store – Search Yammer using the Teams…
