Bring Yammer into Microsoft Teams with the Communities App

The current version of Yammer is almost unrecognizable from the initial release years back. It really has earned it's place in the Microsoft 365 ecosystem as an enterprise grade communication tool right alongside Teams and SharePoint. As part of a digital transformation project, there are tons of use cases for Yammer and when used correctly, …

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Keeping Up With Change: Planning For Microsoft Teams Public Preview

With the 'evergreen' nature of Microsoft Cloud services, we get a constant stream of new features and fixes that could never be matched in an on premises environment. The technical change itself would take up way too much time to plan, implement and support. Many organizations are still running legacy, out of support versions of …

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End of Support for Teams Web App on IE11

As Microsoft work to finish the move to Microsoft Edge, the new version of Edge that is, more and more services are becoming unsupported on Internet Explorer. Internet Explorer 11 is now considered by Microsoft to be a legacy browser and all efforts for functionality and supportability are going into Microsoft Edge (Edge Chromium) going …

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Using Microsoft Teams as a Walkie Talkie for Frontline Workers

There are an amazing number of great apps available to integrate into Microsoft Teams. Some of these apps are published by Microsoft and many more are third part integrations ranging from handy productivity tools to line of business apps surfaced in a users Teams console. One cool app that is now available is the Teams …

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Microsoft Teams Meeting Recordings Moving to OneDrive and SharePoint

Microsoft Teams recordings are a great feature for when people miss meetings and need to catch up, or when they just need to review the content. We've used them in the past for technical demos and project handovers. Recordings were were, until now, saved into Microsoft Stream and available to view in the Stream app. …

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Turn off message preview for Teams notifications

With the extraordinary uptake of Teams in recent months, a lot of users are still finding their way around what they can and can't do and how to customize their Teams client settings. One thing I've seen cause problems (particularly on screen shares during meetings) is the Teams notification message preview. When sharing a screen …

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