Building an employee recognition program that actually lives in Teams?
HR asked me to set up some kind of peer recognition system where people can give kudos to each other. They want it inside Teams because thats where everyone already is. I spent a few hours looking at options, Power Automate flows with adaptive cards, custom bots, etc. but nothing feels clean or sustainable. Has anyone set up a recognition/kudos system thats actually integrated into Teams and not just a bot that posts to a channel?
Calender for Vacation and for general overview of a team
Hi, we are using Teams since one week now and I´m searching for an way to implement an "vacation calender". To keep it simple I want that every user can use his personal calender in Outlook (Exchange). So in case a team member has holiday it should be added to the personal calender and this information I want to share in a general calender for the hole team. We have already a "Team" for all members of the team. Sorry as I´m new to Teams I don´t know how to implement.
How are you handling performance review data across Teams, Outlook, and SharePoint?
We just wrapped up our mid-year review cycle and it was a mess. Managers had to go through old Teams chat messages to find feedback they gave or go through our sharepoint documents to see where everyones goals were. You think there is a way I can use copilot inside Microsoft Teams to somehow parse through all of this before reviews? I saw this app performance 365 or something like that in the app store but I dont think its an official Microsoft app. Any ideas?
Communities tab in Teams
Hi there I've recently had the Communities tab pop up in my Teams alongside the Teams and Channels tab. No one else in my organisation can see this yet and we aren't sure why. I know it's being rolled out on a timeline but I was also wondering if it might be because I'm the only one in the org who has an Microsoft Viva Employee Communications and Communities licence? Does anyone have any insights into this? We'd like to make a bit of a roll out plan once this appears in our colleagues Team's set ups.Struggling to get managers to actually use 1:1 meeting agendas in Teams
We've been trying to get our managers to run structured 1:1s with their direct reports using Teams. Right now they just hop on a call with no agenda and wing it. HR wants there to be a documented agenda, talking points from both sides, and some kind of record of what was discussed. We tried using Loop components and OneNote but managers find it clunky to set up every time and most of them just stopped doing it after a few weeks. Is there a better way to handle recurring 1:1 meeting agendas directly in Teams?
How much should Teams presence influence call routing
One thing I've noticed recently is that many Teams Phone environments still treat presence as a destination state rather than a routing input. A typical flow might look like: Caller selects an option Call is transferred User is unavailable Caller ends up in voicemail or another queue Technically the routing worked. From the caller's perspective, it often didn't. I'm curious how others are approaching this. Are you using Teams presence as part of your call-routing logic? For example: Available → transfer immediately Busy → offer an alternative path In a meeting → capture context Offline → route elsewhere Or are traditional queues and escalation paths still sufficient for most scenarios? Interested to hear what people are doing in real deployments.Is anyone building individual development plans inside Teams?
So hear me out. I discovered that if something is in a live document, sharepoint, etc, I've found that employees dont really check up on it or follow through with it unless they are regularly reminded. Same goes for any software we try to implement that requires a seperate login and lives in another app completely. Our employees spend most of their time communicating in Teams so I want to take our IDP process into Teams. Are there any decent talent or employee development apps for Teams that anyone can recommend for IDPs?
Planner task comments no longer send email notifications – critical regression
This change removed a previously existing core functionality without providing an adequate replacement. With the new Planner experience, task comments no longer trigger automatic email notifications to assigned users. This breaks a critical communication mechanism that many teams relied on for reliable task coordination. As a result, assigned users are no longer consistently informed about updates, introducing a high risk of missed information and operational issues in day-to-day work. There is currently no supported or enforceable alternative to ensure users are notified. Previous behavior: Task comments triggered automatic email notifications Assigned users were reliably informed Communication was traceable and consistent Current behavior: No automatic email notifications No configuration to restore this @mentions required (manual, error-prone, not enforceable) Microsoft Support has confirmed that this is by design and cannot be reverted. From an enterprise perspective, this is not just a design change, but a regression of critical functionality without an equivalent replacement. Request: Please restore automatic email notifications for task discussions or provide a reliable, enforceable alternative for notifying assigned users. Question to the community: How are you handling this change in real-world scenarios? Switching tools? Enforcing @mentions? Moving communication out of Planner? Would appreciate hearing how others are dealing with this.Anything inside Teams for people management you use and can recommend?
We currently have to use one tool for goals, another for feedback, a spreadsheet for review tracking, Teams for 1:1s, and then some shared doc for engagement notes. Leadership asked me if theres anything that does all of this inside Teams so they dont have to keep jumping around. We're a mid-size company (around 200 people) fully on Microsoft 365. Anyone found a good all-in-one solution that actually works inside Teams?