Microsoft Teams

This week, Microsoft is hosting its annual developer conference called Build. For the second year in a row, the conference is virtual-only and you can watch the event online but for those looking for what’s new for Teams, here’s a breakdown of the announcements. Microsoft Teams’ growth exploded during 2020 thanks to the pandemic and…

During Microsoft Ignite 2021, Voices matter: Reconnect with Microsoft Teams Calling, Microsoft introduced a new technology that allows for connectivity from other telephone providers into Microsoft Teams called Operator Connect.  You might be thinking, “we’ve been doing that for years?!” and you’d be right.  Partners and customers have been able to integrate Session Border Controllers…

Because Microsoft announced its quarterly earnings this week, this edition of Short Takes looks exclusively at the results across all of the software giant’s major business units.

Microsoft announced recently that the rollout of a new feature in Teams usage reporting has completed and should be available for all. This will put many an IT Pro’s minds’ at rest, at least a little more. 🙂 Prior to the rollout of MC244599, the Teams admin center exposed user identifiable information (PII) like AAD…

Microsoft Teams is the central hub for productivity for many organizations around the globe. At the last official count, Microsoft said that there were 115 million daily active users of the tool but that figure is likely outdated at this point. One of the primary features of Teams is the ability to host internal/external meetings…

If you can’t get Teams to authenticate or properly access your Microsoft 365 content, you are not alone. It appears that there is another significant disruption to Microsoft’s cloud service as both Office 365 status and Azure status pages or currently offline.

Microsoft has announced that it will start telling your users that they can also use Teams for personal use with a new banner notification in the activity feed.

Microsoft will roll-out a new feature later this year that should will increase visibility for Teams private chats.

Microsoft announced some new Insights features coming to Teams earlier this year and at their Ignite conference last week. They recently offered a little more detail and rollout plans for their personal wellbeing features.

At Ignite 2021, Micorosft has unveiled several new Teams pieces of hardware that will compliment the software experience.