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MontyPyspock
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Re: Microsoft Teams Flow Bot
I just ran into this and the only way that I've been able to post to a Private Channel in a team is to modify the workflow to post as User rather than Flow Bot (or any of the other options, all of which fail). The workflow error that I'm getting when it fails to post as Flow Bot is below. I tried manually adding the Workflows app (which shows up as the old name "Power Automate" in the resulting tab, and is the only Microsoft app that has "flow" in the name any more) to both the team and the private channel. Failed to install the Power Automate app in Microsoft Teams for team with ID '<redacted>'. Please try adding the Power Automate app to this team directly from the Microsoft Teams client. Error details: '{"error":{"code":"Forbidden","message":"User doesn't have permission to Install App","innerError":{"code":"AccessDenied","message":"User doesn't have permission to Install App","details":[],"date":"2024-07-07T16:27:56","request-id":"<redacted>","client-request-id":"<redacted>"}}}'Re: Co-Pilot for academic tenants?
I started a support incident with Microsoft and they eventually ended up saying that K-12 purchases of CoPilot licenses in the M365 Admin Portal are currently bugged for tenants with a EES; it is on the radar for a fix, there is no ETA for when that might happen. In the meantime, they say CoPilot purchases must be purchased through the same vendor as is providing the EES licenses.Re: Co-Pilot for academic tenants?
Has anyone been able to buy Copilot licenses in an Academic tenant yet? Copilot is actively advertised on my Purchase Services page, but I try to buy it, it tells me that I don't have the prerequisites, and the prerequisites are all Business and Enterprise licenses that I can't have in my Academic tenant (see attached screenshot).Re: Teams Who Bot Deprecated, Replaced by Copilot?
Who is gone, and CoPilot is far too expensive, even though they removed the minimum license count. But in the New Teams, you can get most or all of what Who did now in the top Search box. Just enter a person's name in there and choose the person you're looking for from the list, and it will start a Chat with them. You can then click on their icon and get what Who used to offer.Teams Who Bot Deprecated, Replaced by Copilot?
We just started getting this message in the Teams Who Bot app: Who bot is being deprecated and will be replaced by Copilot https://aka.ms/m365copilotadoption in December 2023. Please check with your Tenant Admin to prepare for Copilot. We are an Educational (A) tenant and my understanding is that we aren't able to use Copilot right now (it's only available for E tenants). In addition, even when it arrives for A tenants, if it's the same pricing, it will be $30/month/user with a minimum of 300 users. That means that Microsoft is essentially removing the Who Bot functionality for non-E tenants. Even for E tenants, that's a massive amount of money just to replace Who Bot, and many places won't be able to afford Copilot or just don't want it...they just want the very useful functionality of the existing Who Bot. Is it possible that the Copilot replacement for Who Bot will be available to all at no cost, kind of as a tease for the functionality, but without all the massive lift of the general Copilot functionality in a given tenant?Re: New Teams App being used for Shared Emails?
Still going on here, unfortunately. Seems almost random: my account acts differently on different computers with the desktop app and the web app, sometimes able to open Shared Emails, sometimes failing with that error, appearing in and out of Developer Preview mode. Very intermittent and very strange, definitely a persistent Microsoft bug.Re: Yammer.com is rebranded to Viva Engage - Starting today!
Thanks for the offer, NicolasKheirallah, but I got it from the Google Cache. Plus I can confirm what you said: in Incognito/InPrivate mode, it does now show up, so I'm guessing that they put it back online today sometime and my browser is just caching the recent Access Denied page. I'm glad to see that they're putting the former content back, where it makes sense.Re: Yammer.com is rebranded to Viva Engage - Starting today!
AllisonMichels as I mentioned in my earlier comment, the specific post that I encountered that was missing was called Use Yammer to make newsletters interesting again! As NicolasKheirallah mentioned in his post, the original link is here, but it's broken: it just gives an "Access Denied" error. This is just the post that I happened to encounter that is missing, and it is not yet restored: it's not at the original link, but I also searched for it in case the link had changed, but nothing. I'm sure there are other useful ones that are missing, so it's good to know that you're restoring them. In the future, I'd suggest that your group not summarily wipe out the entire collection of useful posts and then slowly add content back: instead leave them in place and either modify (if they are still useful with updates/new truth) or delete (totally obsolete) posts as needed over time. That would keep the original information and functionality in place as you make the necessary changes.Re: Yammer.com is rebranded to Viva Engage - Starting today!
Allison Michels, I was disappointed to see that the entire previous Yammer blog seems to have been deleted....I was specifically looking for an awesome blog post that Katarina Zenko wrote back in 2019 and you updated, called Use Yammer to make newsletters interesting again! Do you know if the older Yammer articles, many of which are extremely useful, can be restored, even if it's in a separate archive? Thanks!Re: New Teams App being used for Shared Emails?
CarlDavis I'm getting the same error in the Teams app v1.6.00.1159 (a preview version) on macOS. I previously shared an email via the macOS Outlook desktop app in a Teams group chat, and when I went back to open the email in my own post, it gave this error at the bottom of the post: In the Teams web client, the email opened fine, and if revert my Teams desktop client back to the production version, the email also opens fine, so it seems to be a Teams desktop client issue. We do not have a restrictive App Permission Policy in place, and I'm the admin for my tenant and haven't seen any requests for an app, so I suspect this is a bug in the Teams client Preview version masquerading as an app issue.Re: Custom Background In MS Teams
If you suddently don't see the Backgrounds option on a Mac, even if you previously saw the Background Blur option, it's likely because Microsoft Teams developers made an unfortunate decision to exclude any CPU that doesn't support AVX 2.0, which is a lot of slightly older CPUs. More here: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-teams/blur-background-on-mac-os/m-p/1268681
