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Intranet Microsoft Teams UI and UX

Teams channel and tab navigation

In this short blog I talk about an option to provide signposting within a Teams area to channels and tabs elsewhere in Teams.

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Browsers Microsoft 365 Microsoft Teams SharePoint UI and UX

Keyboard Shortcuts in SharePoint & Teams

Keyboard shortcuts are built into Microsoft Teams and, to an extent to SharePoint Online. This is a useful list of them.

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Best Practice Collaboration Microsoft Microsoft 365 Microsoft Teams Remote Meetings

Microsoft Teams Best Practices, Hints & Tips

Over a quarter of a billion people and 1 million organisations use Microsoft Teams. A shinkingly small proportion of those know all the neat tricks and good practices at the front end. Watch this New York City user group session to help fill in the blanks.

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Best Practice Collaboration Identity Microsoft 365 Microsoft Teams Remote Meetings

Message of Doom (aka multi-tenant meeting troubles) in Teams

When creating a Teams meeting from Outlook you will, at some point, experience the “When the meeting starts, we’ll let people know you’re waiting” message of doom. Learn to avoid it here.

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Collaboration Communication Microsoft 365 Microsoft Teams

Which one is reliable, Google Chat or MS Teams?

Is a dedicated chat client better or more reliable than MS Teams. Is that even a sensible question to ask?

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Best Practice Business Collaboration Microsoft 365 Microsoft Teams Remote Meetings

My head hurts less

In Part 1, “My Head Hurts” I discussed why online meetings can be exhausing. In this article I suggest what you can do about it without giving up the benefits of remote working/Work from Home.

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Business Collaboration Microsoft Microsoft Teams Remote Meetings

My head hurts

Online meetings can be exhausting. The several reasons why are explored in this article.

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Cloud Intranet Microsoft 365 Microsoft Office Microsoft Teams OneDrive SharePoint

Does SharePoint have a desktop app?

There is no desktop application for SharePoint. However there is a lot of SharePoint loveliness you can do on the desktop, including making a SharePoint site in a browser appear to be a desktop app.

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Microsoft Microsoft 365 Microsoft Office Microsoft Teams OneDrive SharePoint

Why can’t I Sync my Teams Files tab / SharePoint library?

Beware using both library ‘Sync’ and ‘Add a shortcut to OneDrive’ in SharePoint or Teams. It gets messy and things break.

Thankfully, it’s fairly easy to fix once you know what’s going on.

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Collaboration Microsoft Teams Remote Meetings Thoughts and Musings

Thoughts on Online Living II

In physical meetings, where you sit and how you dress has an impact. How does this work in online meetings?

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Microsoft Teams Remote Meetings Thoughts and Musings

Thoughts on Online Living

Could the pandemic and online living be easing out gender and racial bias, unconscious prejudices and unacceptable behaviours in favour of more egalitarian interactions.

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Best Practice Browsers Microsoft Teams Thoughts and Musings

You can’t be in two places at once, except…

Teams is great for focus. Teams is bad for multitasking. Get the best of both worlds with this not-too-techie tip