Working from home with Microsoft Teams in 30 seconds: checking my audio device settings in a call

Hi all,

Day two and today we're checking our audio device settings once we have joined a call. Take a look in the video below.

Stay safe

@OliverMoazzezi

Working from home with Microsoft Teams in 30 seconds: Pinning contacts and notify when available!

As we are going through a pretty unprecedented time right now I thought I would try and put some Microsoft Teams in 30 seconds videos online with some top tips every week.

Here's day zero!

Stay safe!

@OliverMoazzezi

Working with Read Receipts in Microsoft Teams

Microsoft announced in July 2019 that Read Receipts would be coming to Teams. This roll out has been gradual and offers administrative control over the feature, as well as user control via the Teams client.

Microsoft MVP Tom Arbuthnot talks about the control of the Administrive side in his blog here, in this post i'll show you how the user experience looks for a user that has the feature enabled within their Teams client.


Your Teams client should inform you the feature is now available to you. It will be turned on by default so you will immediately benefit from the feature.

If you want to disable it, simply go to 'Settings' | 'Privacy' and you can disable it if you so wish.

If a user you are chatting with hasn't got the feature, even if they see your message your icon will only ever show as 'Sent'. Which is a little dissapointing. You can see in this shot the user has responsed and obviously seen my message but if they hadn't of responded I would have been none the wiser.

However a user that has been enabled for the service will have read receipts working in your favour. You can see from the below screen shots that the message goes from 'Sent', to the eye emoticon that designates 'Seen'.

The feature works well, although I expected it to work and provide receipt clarity on users that aren't using the feature, however I expect it will update and improve over time.

Have fun,

@OliverMoazzezi

An Introduction to Microsoft Teams

Just a heads up to join me on 11/05/2018 as I am hosting a webinar on Microsoft Teams: The New Way of Working.

http://cobweb.com/webinars/item/microsoft-office-365-the-webinar-series

See you there!

@OliverMoazzezi

Managing gifs in Microsoft Teams

Microsoft Teams is turning out to be a great product. It's unifying a lot of Office 365 services in the solution stack to make the app a pretty much once stop place for getting work done, communicating and enabling productivity. However you may find you get a gif explosion in Microsoft Teams as users find, love and consume the service.

Well whilst we are still awaiting the Skype for Business and Microsoft Teams unified Admin Center that was announced and shown at Ignite we do have some administative functionality over Microsoft Teams.

Let's take a look how we can disable Giphy, or apply content rating to the gifs that are available to users to minimise inappropriate use.

1. Login to Office 365 and browse to the Admin centre. Looking at your respective Admin Centers you won't yet find Microsoft Teams there

2. Instead, go to Settings | Services and Add-ins. Here you will find Microsoft Teams!

3.  Selecting it will show various administrative functions we can currently do - however expand 'Messaging' to see where Giphy is. You will see it can be enabled and disabled and also content ratings applied

4.  The current content rating filter allows Moderate (the default setting), Strict and Show all content.


5.  So what is the experience if you want to disable gifs? Disable the function and save.


6. Within a short amount of time, users cannot insert gifs or see Giphy anymore. Old gif insertions continue to function

I look forward to seeing the combined Skype for Business and Teams Admin Center that's due out at the end of the year - possibly in public preview rather than GA - it should be good! Here's a preview from TechCommunity

Take care,

Oliver Moazzezi
@OliverMoazzezi