For those of you who watched the Microsoft #Teams sessions at Microsoft Ignite 2020, you are fully aware of the incredibly many new features that were announced at #MSIgnite last week, such as:
☑️ breakout rooms (YES!)
☑️ custom layouts (very cool)
☑️ background noise filtering
☑️ pinning important posts to top
☑️ touchless meeting experiences (w. new devices)
☑️ Power Platform integration in Teams
☑️ new calling experiences
☑️ and so much more...
Read all about the new Teams announcements in this excellent blog post.
My Top 10 Tips & Tricks
In addition to the new features announced at #MSIgnite, here’s a list of some of my all-time favorite features and aspects of Teams, old and new:
- Using Teams on the go (the mobile app is excellent!)
- Pinning my most used channels to the top (totally necessary if you're part of many teams)
- Using blurred or custom background on video in meetings
- Tagging relevant people in posts & comments (then they'll get a notification)
- Meeting notifications “5 minutes left” (so convenient for meeting wrap-up)
- Marking chat as important/urgent (extra notification for the recipient - necessary not to over-use)
- Private channels - access-controlled (really great for sensitive stuff)
- Adding Planner/Tasks to tabs & sidebar (so much easer to keep track of everything you need to do)
- Adding things like Shifts, Approval & PowerApps to the sidebar (the possibilities are really endless)
- Raising a virtual hand for questions in meetings and reacting to comments in chat
Yes... you guessed it. I ❤️ Teams!
