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Pinned channels: no breadcrumb trail to quickly go to the parent Team?
When we go to a pinned channel, there's no quick way of going 'up' a level to the parent Team's 'general channel'. I'd expect the team icon at the top left of the pinned channel to be a hyperlink. Is anybody else frustrated by this lack of functionality.220Views0likes0CommentsViewing Form results via Teams
In the 'New Teams' app I can create a channel tab for an existing MS Form, and select the option to "show results". This allows everybody in a team to review the form submissions. But unless I'm missing something, there's no option to view the results in Excel. Teams only shows a stylised summary of the responses via pie charts etc. We have to log into Forms in a web browser in order to get the Excel results. But there's no direct link in the Teams view to the Forms version. So each member of the team would have to manually switch to a browser, log into Forms, then look for the form in question. Not exactly a seamless experience. I wonder if it was easier/better in 'Classic Teams.' I often switch back to Classic Teams to test this sort of thing, but Microsoft have literally just automatically uninstalled Classic Teams from my Mac - it disappeared a couple of hours ago407Views0likes1CommentHow can a Mac user mark an outgoing email as 'private'?
As a Mac user, I've never been able to mark an outgoing email as 'private'. I was hoping that 'New Outlook' would resolve this, but unless I'm missing something, it's still not available. I can't even find a way of doing it in OWA. Can anybody advise, please? (Sensitivity labels aren't an option, as we haven't configured them in our tenant.)323Views0likes0CommentsFully-functioning Team not visible in Teams admin centre
I'm an owner of a Team which we've been actively using in the MS Teams desktop app for over a year - channels, files, chat etc. We encountered a problem when trying to create a new shared channel in the Team, and in trying to troubleshoot this, I noticed that it's not listed in the Teams admin centre. It's listed as a group in the 365 admin centre, but the 'Teams status' column is blank. If I edit the 365 group it says "Would you like to add Microsoft Teams to this group?". When I click 'Add Teams' it tells me it's unable to do so. I'm completely mystified. How can it 'not' be a Team if we're using it in the Teams app?1.8KViews0likes7CommentsCustomising the default template in the online version of Word
My organisation takes branding and house style seriously. We have a suite of Word templates that are deployed to all our users' PCs via group policy. This includes a customised 'Normal' template which has our house font, styles etc. The same template is deployed to MS Teams, so if staff create a new Word doc within Teams, it has the correct font. It all falls apart in the online version of Word. We can't find a way of setting our house font for new docs created in Word for the web. We seem to be stuck with Calibri 11. As a result, our house style is being diluted, and becoming impossible to enforce. Surely there's a way of setting an org-wide cloud-based template? It seems like a fairly basic requirement.947Views0likes4CommentsTeams usage report no longer shows the team name
I used to run regular usage reports to check the level of engagement with various teams. Data about individual users was anonymised, but I could get a list of teams, with stats about how many channels/files/posts etc had been created. The report no longer shows the team name, just an ID number, which is meaningless. I can no longer identify teams that aren't actively using the app, and offer them support and training. It seems I can resolve this in the M365 admin centre by turning off the option to anonymise teams data. But unless I've misunderstood, it's a global setting - it will turn off anonymisation about individual users. We don't want to do that - we want individual user data to remain anonymised. We just want to see the team names. Is this no longer possible?920Views0likes1CommentIs there a relationship between activity in MS Teams and the list of Sharepoint sites I'm 'following
Does anybody know if actions we take within Teams and Channels can affect the list of Sharepoint sites we're deemed to be following? Sharepoint shows that I'm following 51 sites, none of which I've actively chosen to follow in Sharepoint. They're all based on teams or channels (we don't use Sharepoint in its own right, only as the back end to Teams). If I create a new channel within a team, or I rename an existing channel, would that 'trigger' a follow within Sharepoint? If I move a file from one Team or channel, would that trigger a follow?1KViews0likes3CommentsIs there a way to delete a chat group and an entire conversation, for all users?
We recently distributed an MS Form using the 'invitation' method. We sent the invitation to a group of staff, using an existing Azure distribution group. We didn't realise that this would automatically create a new chat group in Teams (lesson learned!). Some staff have posted messages to the chat group. We don't want to keep the chat group - we'd ideally like to delete it completely. But the guidance I've read suggests that although each individual user can delete it from their Teams app, there's no global delete option. Is that the case? We've experimented with deleting a couple of users from the chat, but because the chat group is based on an Azure distribution group, I think it re-adds them! Are we stuck with this chat group forever??17KViews0likes1CommentAdvice on creating a Team for all employees
We want to set up a team for all our 250+ employees, and need advice about what to expect if we create an org-wide team. I've read that certain types of users won't be added (Accounts that are blocked from sign-in; Guests; Resource or service accounts; Room or equipment accounts; Accounts backed by a shared mailbox). But I don't know how clean our AD is. There's no way of testing/checking who would actually be added, so we're cautious about going ahead! Our other concern is that Teams would instantly send an automated notification to all our employees, but we have no way of knowing what it will say. From experience, there are at least 3 types of notifications, depending on how/where a Team is set up, and the wording can't be customised. Can anybody share an example of the automated notification for an org-wide team? Or, is it possible to suppress the automated notification, maybe via Powershell? As an alternative, we had considered a team based on a dynamic rule-based group. We could control it by basing the criteria on a field in our AD which is only used for current employees. However, we have E3 licences, which don't support the creation/use of dynamic groups.874Views0likes2CommentsCan't view/edit dynamic membership rules for Azure AD 365 dynamic group I created. Error code 403
I recently created my first dynamic 365 group in Azure. Defined the membership rules, then set up an MS Team based on the group. Confirmed in Teams that the membership was as I'd expect. Went back to Azure and added a new criterion to the dynamic membership rules. Confirmed that this was reflected correctly in Teams. All good so far. I now need to change the dynamic membership rules again, but I'm denied access! I can't view the current rules or edit them. The error message says "No access", "Resource ID - not available", and "Error code 403". One of my colleagues with full admin rights has tried to create a new dynamic 365 group and is unable to. Any ideas what's going on?? How do we troubleshoot this?7.2KViews0likes7Comments
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