Online Collaboration

Here’s a question from Cynthia: Just started to work with a customer that uses Microsoft Teams for their meetings. Unfortunately, the meetings held during the afternoon typically start late, so if possible i would be happy to enter the meeting as a participant with my audio muted, so i can continue to discuss with my … Read more

Here’s a short question we just got from Amanda: I work as an IT coordinator. My manager decided that we will use SharePoint in order to track hardware and software issues our users encounter. Although our Issue Tracker is pretty rudimentary (as it was built from a pre-delivered template), it has been well acceptedn by … Read more

Here’s a question from Denise: Just started out working for a new employer that seems to have a massive Teams implementation in place for online team collaboration. I am member of several Teams, some of them are pretty noisy. A colleague advised to turn off channel notifications. The thing is that now i seem not … Read more

Here’s a question we received from Jamie: I work for a consulting company and we typically bill our customers for time spent in meetings. I understood that Microsoft Teams has a nice feature that allows meeting organizers (in our case, that would be me) to retrieve attendance reports for specific meetings. I checked in the … Read more

Here’s a question from Mathilda: I just bought new speakers from my work Windows 10 computer and those are connected in parallel to my Bluetooth headsets. Whenever i participate in a Teams meeting, i can hear the audio very well on my headsets, but can’t hear anything from the speakers. Any ideas on how to … Read more

Here’s a question from Yuri: I am preparing a nice presentation of our next group meeting. In the presentation i have embedded an mp4 video file that includes sound, which is playing OK in my Windows 11 computer speakers. I also asked a colleague that run a macOS system and that worked fine on his … Read more

Here’s a question from Mick: So far we used Skype for chat and group collaboration, but now transitioning to Microsoft Teams is in full swing. One difficulty i encountered when using the Teams app on Windows and web was to find specific conversations in the Chat app. I am sure that i have chatted with … Read more

Here’s a question we received from Arley: Kind of strange issue here, using Microsoft Web on Windows and web as well. Whenever i try to join a Teams meeting on the web i am not able to activate my video camera. Whenever i use Teams on my mac laptop, i don’t encounter this issue. So … Read more

This is a recent question from Doris: Hello folks, just switching to Microsoft Teams from Zoom. Quick question about how to change my Teams virtual background picture to a custom one? And if possible, is there a way to do that ahead of joining the meeting and have the new background become the default setting … Read more

Here’s a short question from George: In my previous job, we used Zoom to for meeting and online collaboration. As we are implementing Microsoft Teams i would be glad to know more about attaching spreadsheets, PowerPoint presentations, images and videos to Teams conversations. Send files in Teams meeting If you would like to share any … Read more