Whiteboard with external participants
Hi. First post...be gentle... I'd really like to know if there is a roadmap for introducing the Whiteboard functionality in Teams calls with external participants. At the moment when we start a Whiteboard session, it just states "For now only members of this org can participate. Soon, you'll be able to too!". So...when is soon? Thanks, Mark.
Chat options not available - Teams App for Mac
Hi there, I'd love some help here. I'm using a 64 bit iMac (2021) running the very latest version of MS Teams (October 2021) using MacOs Big Sur 11.6 When I join a meeting as a guest via the app I can't access the chat. There is no chat bubble visible in my bar next to the sharing tray. And when people in the meeting send chats I can't see them. When I join the same meeting as a guest via my browser, the chat bubble and chat options show up just fine. So I'm imagining that the issue is with my Mac and how the Teams App is running on it. Does anyone have any idea how to fix this please? Many thanks Daniel p.s. incidentally this happened the other day the other way round, when I was hosing a meeting and those who were joining me couldn't see the chat options (but I could). This may be co-incidence or may be connected.
Setting up Teams for Education
Hi, I'm a university teacher who's trying to set up an online course for my class. We've been ordered to begin online courses due to COVID lockdowns, without much in the way of IT support. I found out that our uni has Office 365 A1 Plus available for faculty with institutional email addresses and I wish to use Microsoft Teams for setting up a course. I've self registered my institutional account at the Office 365 Education portal and created a Team in Microsoft Teams. As I tried to invite members, I discovered that I could only add members whose email addresses had the exact same domain as mine. Our addresses are structured as mailto:xxxxxxxx@dept.university.edu, and I can't even invite faculty from another department to my Team because of their different domain address (our course has faculty from different departments). Making the issue even worse, our uni doesn't issue institutional addresses to students, so my students have a mix of gmail and outlook accounts which I couldn't invite either. I suspect such limitation is a group policy set up (probably unintendedly) by whoever has access to the tenant account, because I registered as a free user for Teams with a gmail account and there is no such limitation. I created a Team with this free account, invited my institutional user account and some other gmail accounts as team members without issue. So, question time Is it possible to invite Gmail/Outlook accounts as Team members if the admin settings are set up accordingly? I suspect the solution for this is the same as for inviting faculty with other domain mail addresses and students will need to register Microsoft accounts with their personal email addresses. Some search here suggets that this is indeed possible and the solution required is something along the lines of this issue and proposed solution. Should I try to track whoever has access to the Office 365 tenant account for our uni so they can make the required changes? Which would be the required changes? I'd really appreciate some handholding here, I'm a bit out of my depth and I don't think the uni IT staff will be of much help without some clear instructions, unfortunately. Thanks in advance and sorry for the long post.
Teams Notifications with Guests
HI We running 365 internally and I am a member of a number of Teams. This works fine However we have started collaborating with a 3rd party who also runs 365 and Teams. I have been invited as a "Guest" to there environment and now a member of some of there Teams. To get to there Teams environment I need to logon to Teams and in the top right hand corner press the drop down arrow to move between my company Teams account to the 3rd partys teams setup. This works ok, however if I am invited to a chat with members of the 3rd party (ie outside of teams channel) this chat happens in the 3rd party tenant and I do not see the chat withing my 365 tenant. If this how it works? I would have thought I shoudl see the chat in my Tenant ? Thanks
Teams Chat - Guest vs External
We find that Teams Chat to External users of another tenancy Teams (using their full email name) notifies them within their Teams that there is an incoming message and allows them to participate in a text-only conversation. The recipient is logged into their 'home' Teams and doesn't need to do anything else, or switch to the senders Tenancy. If a Teams Chat is sent to a Guest user, who is logged into their 'home' Teams (and not the senders Teams tenancy) they get no notification. This is not the expected behaviour. Adding someone to a Channel automatically creates a Guest, and we are having to tell our users to ignore the suggested Guest account when trying to start a Chat and instead type in the full email name to send the message to an External account if they want their message to be seen immediately.
MS Teams no longer notifying "This Team has Guests" under the title
We seemed to have an update the other day on our Microsoft Team desktop app. One change that we would like to see come back, is the small message under the title of the team in the main panel that said "This Team has Guests". This was a good quick visual to the user that information they are putting in the conversations/Files etc could be viewed my members external to the tenant. I can see this message if I view the members of the Team, but this requires to check this every time I go into a different Team, instead of having a visual at the top. Can this be put back? It would be nice to see this feature also appear in the SharePoint sites too.
