Online Collaboration

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 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 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

This is a question from Jim: My employer is promoting Microsoft Teams usage across all departments of the business. As a project leader i am tasked to manage all related project files and communication in Teams. I have set up a few sub-project channels and each of them has a folder structure that i used … 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 into Teams conversations. Is that even an option in Microsoft Teams? Send files in Teams … Read more

Here’s a question from Stephie: I was recently tasked to takeover the maintenance of several Microsoft Teams from a colleague who left the company. One challenge i encountered lately is how to share Word, PDF and Excel files stored in Microsoft Teams with internal and external users using Outlook 365. Any pointers / best practices … Read more

Here’s a question from Dolly: In my previous workplace we used to work with Google Calendar and Zoom and we just switched to Microsoft Outlook and Teams for communication and collaboration. I understand that i can schedule a Teams meeting right from Outlook. The challenge is that i don’t see a Teams button on Microsoft … Read more

This is a question from Elena: I work as a project manager for a building company, and i am tasked to maintain a shared procedures folder. The challenge is how to have others , not necessarily working for our company, accessing its contents. So far, I am unable to share a document folder with external … Read more

Here’s a question we got the other day: I use Microsoft Teams web and desktop versions over several shared desktops, laptops and tablet devices. One things that bothers me quite a bit is that fact that either Microsoft teams doesn’t fit the screen because the resolution is too large or sometimes the Teams app is … Read more