Monday, September 6, 2021

Linking to Microsoft Teams chats from your browser - Tip 1 of 5

Tip 1 of 5: Linking to Microsoft Teams chats from the browser. Grab direct links to your favorite chats using their unique URLs in the browser, and document them in OneNote, emails, or wherever you need a quick reference!

See more Changing LANES tips here!

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Sunday, September 5, 2021

Change your L.A.N.E.S. in Microsoft Teams Chat

To complement the article I posted in LinkedIn, below you'll find a summary of the 5 tips for effectively using chat in Microsoft Teams, along with links to video demos (TBD) that will be posted on the Teamwork Cowbell YouTube Channel:

  1. Link to your Chats (video demo here)

  2. Archive (Hide) Chats (video demo here)

  3. Name your Chats (video demo here)

  4. Encourage Chats (video demo TBD)

  5. Silence Chats (video demo TBD)


Saturday, September 4, 2021

Automating Alerts with Microsoft Forms, Power Automate, and Microsoft Teams

Discussed automating Alerts with Microsoft Forms, Power Automate, and Microsoft Teams. Showed meeting options in Microsoft Teams, including Spotlight and the new Presenter View features. Talked about ways to use these features to have successful and professional meetings. 


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Friday, August 27, 2021

Passed MS-700 exam! (Managing Microsoft Teams)

Happy to have passed my MS-700 exam today! ๐ŸŽ‰  Tips? Yeah, brush up on the calling aspects of Microsoft Teams. Teams has a comprehensive set of phone system features that you need to be familiar with. In fact, why are people still using phones without Teams anyway?? ๐Ÿ˜‹


Achievement Unlocked: Microsoft Teams Administrator Associate

Most popular 3rd party apps in Microsoft Teams - CUTE Session

Discussed some of the more popular 3rd-party apps that customers are using in Microsoft Teams, and the pros and cons.


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Friday, August 20, 2021

Use cases for Forms and Whiteboard in Microsoft Teams


In today's Ask-Me-Anything users discussed with us questions around working with Forms and Whiteboard in Microsoft Teams chat, as well as Sharing scenarios. Some Microsoft 365 roadmap items were discussed as well.

 

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Friday, August 13, 2021

Approvals and Apps in Microsoft Teams

 

In this week's CUTE4TEAMS session, we showed how the Approvals app works in Microsoft Teams to provide a seamless experience working with approval workflows (using PowerAutomate) that help users get feedback on documents, decisions, etc.  

We also talk about some other app integrations that are relatively new to the Government Community Cloud (GCC), and some of the ways to think creatively about their usage.

Friday, August 6, 2021

Private vs Channel Chat in Microsoft Teams; Company Communicator

In this CUTE4Teams session we spent some time discussing the nuanced differences between chatting in Microsoft Teams with your teammates using private group chat, versus having conversations in channels within a Team. I strongly encourage channel chat for things like sub-conversation threads, linking to specific posts, and more @mention flexibility.

Also in this video was a great explanation to a customer about the value proposition of Company Communicator for employee communication in Teams.

Monday, July 12, 2021

Walkthru Microsoft Whiteboard in Teams [for Gov't] in 1 minute

While long detailed walk-thru's are great, I also think the quick 60-second fly-bys are nice too. :) Given the recent launch of the Microsoft Whiteboard service in Government Community Clouds (GCC), I thought it would be useful to see a very quick introduction to starting and using a whiteboard during a Microsoft Teams meeting in a GCC client. See the video below:

Also, you can see more via TikTok with the post below:


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