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February 22, 2023

New Microsoft Teams Client will be economically streamlined and AI infused!

Microsoft is working on a new version of their Teams client that has been rebuilt from the ground up – according a report by Tom Waren over at The Verge.…
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February 14, 2023

Reasons to fall in Love with the Yealink A24 DeskVision:

The Yealink DeskVision A24 is a revolutionary all-in-one collaboration device that blends the best of innovate monitor and UC hub with a leading class Android powered Teams Collaboration display that…
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October 12, 2022

Microsoft bringing Immersive VR into Teams, Office, Windows, and Xbox in new Meta partnership

At the Meta Connect virtual conference yesterday (11th October), Microsoft announced they will make Windows, Office, Teams, and others such as Dynamics available for the new Meta Quest Pro and…
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February 2, 2022

New “Compact” Chat Mode coming to Microsoft Teams

The Microsoft Teams desktop app will soon be getting a new “Compact” Chat mode that will let you see 50% more messages on screen. Compact mode will only work on…
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December 14, 2021

SurfaceHub Management now in preview in Teams Admin Centre

Management of Surface Hub devices is now in public preview in the #MicrosoftTeams Admin Centre (TAC). This means you can now manage all these in one place.. Surface Hub Teams…
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August 28, 2021

PSTN dial-in for Microsoft Teams meetings is now free and unlimited for enterprise, business, frontline, and gov.

In addition to the recent price rises annouced last week to almost all Microsoft 365 plans (other than the highest E5 plans), Microsoft also annouced some good value news for…
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August 16, 2021

Microsoft Teams will finally let users “swap” meeting content with the Gallery view

Microsoft Teams is getting a new much needed feature that will allow users to swap between shared content and the Gallery view during meetings. Now in Public Preview, this new…
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July 27, 2021

Microsoft adds SafeLinks protection to Teams

Microsoft 365 now has “Safe Links” protections across Microsoft Teams for any organisation that uses Microsoft Defender for Office 365 (formally Office 365 ATP). What is Safe Links? Safe Links…
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July 25, 2021

New “Side-by-Side” and “Reporter” Presenter modes coming in August to Teams

Coming to complement the newly released “Standout mode” that rolled out to Microsoft Teams last months, 2 new immersive presentation modes are about to start rolling out. This update is…
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June 9, 2021

Teams “Phone” gets a heap of new features

What’s new June 2021,brings a host of new features to Teams phones, which translate and complement some of the newest and greatest features users get with Teams on their desktop…
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June 9, 2021

Cisco unveil new Webex logo, new look and add a bunch of new features

Summary Last night, Cisco unveiled a new “modern” logo for its Webex product suite along with annoucing a new set of features coming soon which range from background noise cancellation…
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September 9, 2020

6 new countries added to Microsoft Cloud Calling Plans

Microsoft made a big announcement today as it announced an additional 6 countries that it is adding to its coverage of Microsoft provided calling plans which will be available from…
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April 30, 2020

Microsoft to bring all tasks across Office365 into new “Tasks in Teams”

Microsoft to bring all tasks across #Office365 into new “Tasks in Teams”
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April 30, 2020

There’s now 4.1 Billion Meeting minutes a day in Microsoft Teams

Microsoft said yesterday that they have now passed 75 million daily active paid users in Microsoft Teams. The news came as part of their Q3 2020 results announced yesterday (29…
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April 22, 2020

“SMS sign in” for Microsoft Teams* now in public preview.

Another #MicrosoftTeams feature is rolling out (ok so it’s in public preview so pretty much rolled out). This time is a feature aimed more at front line workers like retail…
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April 21, 2020

“Pop out” chat support starts rolling out in Microsoft Teams

You can now pop out a chat on #MicrosoftTeams
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April 13, 2020

4 to 9 is not 49 but its’ a leap in the right direction for #MicrosoftTeams

There’s no doubt Microsoft haven’t been busy this past few months with some may say, it’s own rapid #MicrosoftTeams feature response took to #covid_19. Whilst in preview for many at…
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April 2, 2020

Ensuring the best online meeting experience when working from home during COVID-19

With COVID-19 now dominating our lives and forcing most of us to work from home with lock-downs now in place across most major metropolitan cities around the globe, we (through…
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March 20, 2020

Host of new features announced as Microsoft Teams Turns 3

I talked yesterday about about the tremedous growth of Teams (partly due to the impact covid-19 is having with increased working from home) but today as Teams Turns 3 a…
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March 19, 2020

Covid19: The way people work IS changing as Teams daily usage passes 44 million

Microsoft has announced that the daily users of Teams now sits as 44 million (up some 37‰ since last week and have also highlighted a number of global businesses with…
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March 19, 2020

Microsoft has made Teams free for the entire NHS

As part of a huge tech aid programme in response to COVID-19, Microsoft has made Microsoft Team available to the entire 1.5m NHS workers for free which was announced in…
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March 2, 2020

My top 5 new things in Microsoft Teams for Feb 2020

1. Cross collaboration with Outlook and Teams Whilst Teams is one of the most effective and fluid ways for indivials and teams to communicate, not all conversations are suited in…
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February 18, 2020

You can now Share a Teams chat to…..Outlook

What? Sharing from Teams to Outlook? Yes – you read that correctly. At Ignite in November 2019, Microsoft announced a new set of features to provide tighter integration between Microsoft…
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January 20, 2020

Microsoft’s new Teams tv advert showcases how to do “modern meetings”

Microsoft has unveiled its first official TV advert for #MicrosoftTeams which aired this weekend. The slick 30-second ad aired during Sunday’s NFL playoff in the US, and will also be…
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January 15, 2020

New Scheduling Experience coming to Microsoft Teams

Microsoft are about to roll out (early Feb 2020) changes that replace the existing scheduling form with a new form that retains all existing scheduling functionality but makes it more…
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November 20, 2019

<40p a day gets you Microsoft Teams Voice

Microsoft 365 Business Voice ….is a cloud-based phone system built and priced specifically for small and medium businesses which was announced at Ignite earlier this month and is available now.…
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September 20, 2019

What are organisation-wide Teams in Teams?

Organisation-wide teams provide an automatic way for everyone in a small to medium-sized organisation (up to 5,000 users) to be a part of a single team for collaboration and notifications.…
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September 19, 2019

Private channels for Teams are finally here.

Getting very excited about Private Channels for Teams and after seeing a great preview of this and seeing the impending release date – I wanted to share some info…
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August 14, 2019

You can now include system audio in Teams meetings

August 2019: Up until now (well, yesterday in my experience, it has not been possible to share your “system audio” when sharing or presenting content such as a video or…
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July 16, 2019

Planning your Teams deployment… Don’t forget the Video

Teams is not just for chat and content sharing. A recent Nemertes’ “Workplace Collaboration: 2019-20 Research Study” of more than 625 organisations, found that almost two thirds (64%) of participants…
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