Whenever someone leaves an organisation or changes roles, the permissions of their user account should be checked to ensure that No Teams are left without an owner (every Team should really have two owners) Their access to Teams they no longer need access to is revoked. There are many ways to do this but most Read More
Category: Teams
Configuration Settings for Sharing in Microsoft 365
The ability to share content rather than send copies of content is one of the main benefits of Office 365. There are many settings that need to be configured this ability and they are distributed through multiple interfaces. This article documents the settings and their locations. It is fair to say that these settings would Read More
Create a To Do Task from a Teams Message
Oh, how I have been waiting for this! As I successfully get more communications in Teams, unfortunately I pick up more tasks from Teams messages. But as Planner morphs to Tasks, I see more of my To Do tasks in Teams so yet again, I have less reasons to leave Teams. Now to the issue Read More
Looking Forward to Ignite 2020
First up, let’s get the disappointment out of the way: I’m really disappointed that I can’t meet up with people and network at Ignite. The benefits of speaking to attendees, vendors and Microsoft staff are immeasurable at the in person event. Also, it is far easier to avoid the inevitable distractions of work when you Read More
Meeting Chat in Microsoft Teams
Challenge Within Microsoft Teams meetings, there is a chat capability visible to all attendees (those invited to the meeting) and participants (those added to an instance of a meeting). After a meeting has ended, participants can still see the meeting chat Roles There are three roles in a meeting Organiser The person who creates the Read More
Carry out a Quick Poll in Microsoft Teams
Microsoft Teams is being used for a lot of meetings at the moment and depending on the number of attendees there are a few features that may be missing or not obvious to use. Following on from a thread on a community forum I wanted to share the solution to a couple of features: Raise Read More
Rename a Microsoft Team and the associated SharePoint site
There are many situations where a Teams site and the underlying SharePoint site may need to be renamed: Created in error Organisational restructure Introduction of naming policies This has been a challenging goal to achieve but it is now relatively straightforward when you combine the SharePoint and Teams PowerShell commandlets. Objective Starting with a SharePoint Read More