Online Collaboration

Here’s a question from Sharonna: I have received an Outlook invitation to a Teams recurring meeting from one of my customers. Once i tried to double click the link, i found out that Microsoft Teams desktop application fails to open, and seem to be hanging indefinitely. Is there anything i can do in order to … Read more

Here’s a question from a reader: I need to tide up the file and folder structure of several team channels i manage. For that i have understood that i am able to open links to Teams channels, files and folders in SharePoint so that i can more easily restructure my Microsoft Teams site library look … Read more

Here’s a question from Monica: I often use the Microsoft Teams Chat app in order to send links to web pages, SharePoint documents and other Teams channels. The problem is that often times, the link text is pretty long and doesn’t look very neat. Is there a way to rename a link in Microsoft Teams, … Read more

Here’s a question from Kim: Hello – i was just tasked at managing several teams with several dozens of members each. Sometimes i am in need of communicating with all these folks using Microsoft Outlook emails (not specifically with each channel individually). When looking into the Outlook global address list i couldn’t find any of … Read more

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 encountered by the users. Although our SharePoint based Issue Tracker is pretty rudimentary (as it was built from a pre-delivered template), it has been … 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 tour work … Read more

Here’s a question from Mathilda: I just bought new speakers from my Windows 11 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 go … 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