Microsoft Teams – Page 2

Managing Microsoft Teams using PowerShell

September 18, 2022July 30, 2024Brian Alderman

Microsoft Teams can potentially have tens of thousands of users, thousands of teams, and thousands of channels, and the ability to automate and bulk manage these teams, channels, and team members means that it’s imperative to have an on-the-ball administrator. It’s helpful to understand how nicely PowerShell integrates with Microsoft Teams and how you can use PowerShell to interact with Teams and generate scripts to perform some of the more common – and possibly tedious – tasks associated with Teams. Microsoft Teams PowerShell provides several cmdlets for managing all aspects of Microsoft Teams, and the Teams PowerShell module offers three great features: Support for authentication options, like credentials and access… Read More

Microsoft Teams and SharePoint Online: How are they integrated?

August 24, 2022July 30, 2024Brian Alderman

You’re probably wondering about the integration of Microsoft Teams and SharePoint Online and where to manage their integration. After I cover some basics, I’ll share some specific configuration settings associated with both of these M365 services. When you need to create a new team in the Microsoft Teams interface, you can choose whether to create a public or private team. When the new team is created, it creates a new SharePoint site. This new SharePoint site is connected to the Files tab located in the channels associated with that team. While you’re still in the Teams channel, if you click the Open in SharePoint option, you’re brought to the SharePoint site… Read More

What’s new in Microsoft Teams Q2 – 2022

July 22, 2022July 17, 2023Brian Alderman

Microsoft Teams is an ever-evolving service that has become the primary desktop application for users to collaborate and communicate in. With that in mind, Microsoft is investing a lot of resources, both financially and physically to ensure the product continues to evolve. With there being so many changes, it is important to keep abreast of the updates and new features to ensure your organization is taking full advantage of this powerful app. This quarterly post on Microsoft Teams will be useful for understanding the highlights of the new features and updates, specific to the Microsoft Teams desktop app and Teams on the web. Calls N/A Chat LinkedIn profiles in… Read More

What’s new in Microsoft Teams – Q1 of 2022

April 12, 2022March 2, 2023Brian Alderman

Microsoft Teams New Capabilities and Features

January 15, 2022February 22, 2023Brian Alderman

Microsoft continues to enhance Microsoft Teams and recently announced some pretty big updates to Microsoft Teams this month. I will discuss the top five updates in this article so you can quickly go test them out to see how beneficial they will be to your organization. Let’s begin my exploring the new capabilities in the Meetings feature of Microsoft Teams. Within the Recordings capabilities there are a few slick updates released and one of my favorites is the multi-speed playback which allows you to control the speed at which you play back the recorded meeting. This can be adjusted to slow down or speed up (0.5 to 2x). This is… Read More

Microsoft Teams Essentials for Small Businesses

November 28, 2021February 7, 2022Brian Alderman

Earlier this month Microsoft announced a new flavor of Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Essentials, targeted for small businesses. The Microsoft Teams Essentials standalone offering is the first of its’ kind and has a lower per-user price point than the Microsoft Teams offered in Microsoft 365. At only $4.00 per user per month, it includes the primary features and functionality including group chat, calendaring, file sharing, and unlimited group video calls, for up to 30 hours, all which are essential for small business working with your customers. Microsoft Teams Essentials does have some capabilities specific to its’ offering which include Extended meeting time (up to 30 hours) Large meeting capacity (host up… Read More

Microsoft announces first Microsoft 365 price increase in a decade

September 9, 2021February 7, 2022Brian Alderman

We knew it was going to happen, but just didn’t know when. With Microsoft adding so many new apps, features, and capabilities it was long overdue. In the decade prior to this price increase, Microsoft has enhanced the online offering significantly. Let me provide a high-level overview of what has changed since the initial release of Office 365. Microsoft 365 was introduced, which not only includes Office, but also Windows, and Enterprise Mobility and Security (EMS) Microsoft 365 has since added 24 new apps including Microsoft Teams, the Power trio (Apps, BI, Automate), Stream, Planner, and OneDrive Released over 1,400 new features and capabilities falling into three primary functional categories:… Read More

Top 10 SharePoint Online Announcements from Microsoft Ignite 2019

November 14, 2019January 17, 2020Brian Alderman

SharePoint Online Home Sites, built on top of Communication sites are now rolled out, providing a more dynamic and modern landing page that contains news and content relative to your employees Hub sites being updated to include Hub permissions management, analytics capability, and Search and audience targeting is in progress Expanded views of lists and libraries with one click to clear the site header and the left-hand navigation Since we are talking about libraries; Power Apps now integrates with SharePoint libraries, not just lists To view your rows easier, there is an option to display every other row with your color choice, making information in libraries and lists easier to… Read More

Monitoring Microsoft Teams Updates

September 19, 2019January 19, 2020Brian Alderman

Microsoft Teams is taking charge in file management, collaboration, and communication. It appears Microsoft has a new kid in town, and that kid is very popular, so they are getting a lot of attention from Microsoft, and more importantly Microsoft customers. With Microsoft dedicating so many resources, both financial and human, the challenge becomes, how do you keep up with the changes to Teams. Well the good news it isn’t too difficult because Microsoft is doing a great job in sharing the future of Microsoft Teams, and documenting the changes they are making as they are released. If you want to see what Microsoft is planning for Microsoft Teams, you… Read More

Teams, Teams, Teams, all I want to do is Teams

March 24, 2019March 24, 2019Brian Alderman

Teams, Teams, Teams, all I want to do is Teams (Sung to the song “All I want to do is Dream”) Microsoft continues to improve what I think is one of the best services they have released in many years; Microsoft Teams. This week Microsoft announced eight new capabilities in Microsoft Teams, one of which was the number one requested feature; private channels. However, before you get too excited it is important to realize that you aren’t going to open your Teams apps and find all of these recently announced features immediately, but they will be rolled out over the remainder of the year. Let’s take a quick peek at… Read More