Running engagement pulse checks in Teams, how do you track trends over time?
My lead asked me to start doing monthly pulse checks across our team of 20. I've been using Forms and dropping the link in the channel. Response rate sits around 50% which I can live with, but the real problem is that every survey is its own isolated result set. I can see this month's numbers fine. Comparing them to three months ago means exporting everything to Excel and rebuilding the comparison by hand.Microsoft named a Leader in 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Unified Communications as a Service
We’re excited to share that Microsoft has been named a Leader in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Unified Communications as a Service (UCaaS) worldwide, marking our seventh consecutive year with this recognition. We are honored to again be positioned highest for ability to execute and furthest for completeness of vision in the evaluation’s axes.Team disappears from the side rail if a channel is in the section
This started around the time Communities have been added to the side rail (the one that shows recent chats, all your teams, etc.). I have a setup where i add channels that i need to a section called Favorites and in that section i enable to show only unread. I put this section above chats in Combined view. This way i see channels with unread messages on top and new chats also appear at the top of the Chats section. This way it is easy to notice unread messages without pesky notifications. Because there is no option to limit the size of Chats section (i would prefer it to show only last 10 chats or less). So, my Teams list is usually too far below to see channels with new messages. I had this setup since Combined view was introduced. But a few weeks ago behavior changed. Now, if a channel is in a section, the whole team is hidden from the side rail and under the Teams section it only shows a link "View all your teams". Which you need to click and it loads list of teams in the main window, then you click on a team and it loads a list of channels and so on. Very slow. It doesn't make sense to hide entire team if you add one of the channels to some section. I still might need to access other channels and i want it to be at my fingertips, not behind 3 clicks and UI loading time. It even looks more like a bug, but probably not many users run into it as i think sections are not as popular as Microsoft have hoped.
What are people using to measure manager effectiveness across the org?
Our CHRO wants to start tracking how effective managers are, things like do they hold regular 1:1s, do they give timely feedback, are their team's goals on track. Right now we have zero visibility into any of this. We can pull some data from Teams usage reports but that just tells us who's chatting a lot, not who's actually managing well. Anyone found a tool or approach within the M365 ecosystem that gives you a real picture of manager effectiveness?PowerPoint Live Just Got MUCH Better! 🤯 New Teams Presentation Features Explained
🚀 PowerPoint Live just got smarter! Anyone who regularly presents in Microsoft Teams has probably experienced this: ❌ The presentation gets updated after you've already started sharing it. ❌ Someone in the audience doesn't understand an acronym or technical term but doesn't want to interrupt. Microsoft is addressing both challenges with two new PowerPoint Live capabilities: 🔄 Refresh Present the latest version of your deck without stopping the presentation or resharing the file. ✨ Explain Help attendees quickly understand unfamiliar terms and concepts without disrupting the flow of the meeting. These may look like small enhancements, but they solve real-world frustrations that many presenters face every day. My favorite feature? Refresh. No more awkward "Give me a second, I need to reshare the presentation" moments during important meetings. 🎥 I've just published a new video where I walk through these new features and show how they work in practice. What do you think is more valuable: Refresh or Explain? #Microsoft365 #MicrosoftTeams #PowerPoint #PowerPointLive #M365 #MicrosoftCopilot #Productivity #DigitalWorkplace #Collaboration #MicrosoftMVP #TechCommunity #AI #FutureOfWork #Office365 #TeamsMeetings
Share content didn't appear or freeze during teams meeting.
Hi Everyone, I having an issue where when participant trying to share content during microsoft teams meeting, the content didn't show on the display and sometime the content is freeze. We join the meeting from Cisco Room Bar Pro on Cisco Room OS Platform. This issue also happen intermittently. Have reboot the device but it's still occurred. Anyone encounter this issue before? Thanks,StarLeaf + Teams integration
Hi all, I have a user that wants to integrate StarLeaf into one of his Microsoft Teams group. He is not the owner of the group. The issue he reported: "Currently, Starleaf for Teams is installed, but when there is any attempt to setup using the integration token generated from our systems admin in Starleaf, an error occurs." The link for instructions he used: https://support.starleaf.com/integrating/starleaf-for-microsoft-teams/#3-Install+StarLeaf+for One of the errors he gets: "Something went wrong. Reinstall StarLeaf for Teams." Any idea of what to do? Kind regards, Dino
TEAMS - Extra Space between Keyboard and Typing Window
Dear All, I am also facing the issue in TEAMS. During the typing, a large space appears between Keyboard and Typing Window. This is happening only in TEAMS app. I moved from my Nothing phone to Vivo X200Fe, then this problem started. This may be a bug in TEAMS to be fixed for VIVO phones. I use VIVO X200 FE with Android 16 and Google Keyboard. It's very annoying to see this big gap and making us uncomfortable while typing. Please help me how to resolve this. Thanks for your help. Mobile : Vivo X200FE Operating System : Origin OS Android 16 Teams Version : 1416 / 1.0.0.2026123608 Keyboard : Google Keyboard - Version 17.7.4.93236420Manage multiple plans effortlessly with the new Portfolios feature in Microsoft Planner
Managing multiple plans across different projects can often become overwhelming for team leads, project managers, or any user handling various deliverables. To simplify the process, we’ve designed a new feature—Portfolios—to help users easily track and manage multiple plans in the Planner app in Microsoft Teams. Portfolios can help simplify complex plan oversight by giving you a consolidated view of all your premium plans and tasks, ensuring nothing slips through the cracks. Once rolled out to your organization, users with a Planner and Project Plan 3 or Planner and Project Plan 5 license will be able to create portfolios to group and manage related plans, track progress at a high level, and visually organize tasks using the Roadmap view. Whether coordinating between various teams or looking for a top-down perspective of multiple plans, the Portfolios feature in the Planner app in Teams makes it all possible in one location—streamlining workflows and improving collaboration A screenshot of the Planner app in Teams displaying a list of plans added to a new portfolio. How it works To get started with Portfolios in Planner once it’s rolled out to your organization, follow the steps below: Navigate to or launch the Planner app in Teams. If you have a Planner and Project Plan 3 or Planner and Project Plan 5 license, you’ll see the new My Portfolios tab in the left navigation directly below My Day, My Tasks, and My Plans. Select the My Portfolios tab to get started with your first portfolio. Then, select the + New Portfolio button. Alternatively, you can select the down arrow directly to the right of the + New plan button at the bottom of the left navigation, then select Portfolio. A screenshot of the Planner app in Teams displaying the new My Portfolios tab with a message that reads, “Get started with your first portfolio!” 3. Add a name for the new portfolio (required), then add it to a group (optional) by selecting the appropriate group from the drop-down. Then, select the Create button. Scenarios to try Below are just a few powerful ways to leverage the new Portfolios feature in Planner. Consolidate multiple plans into a single portfolio: Simplify the process of tracking deliverables and deadlines by creating a portfolio for your ongoing plans. After selecting the Create button, you will see the following message, “There are no plans in your portfolio yet.” Select the + Add Plan button to access a list of all the premium plans you are a member of, including plans you’ve created, as well as those you’ve been added to. A screenshot of the Planner app in Teams displaying the Plans view for My Portfolios with the Add Plan pane open to the right. Select and connect the plan you want to add to the new portfolio as instructed in the Add Plan pane to the right. Properties that are extracted from the plan and displayed in the Plans view include Project Manager, Progress (% complete), Start Date, and Finish Date. The Status field is a drop-down list which enables you to manually select the status of the plan—Not started, On track, At risk, Off track, or Closed—so you can easily identify how the plan is progressing. 2. View your portfolio of plans and their associated tasks as a visual timeline: As soon as you add a plan to the portfolio, a row gets created for that plan on the Roadmap view. In the Roadmap view, you can easily add tasks from the included plans and track them together visually in a timeline view. To add tasks to the timeline, simply select the corresponding plan in the Roadmap view. Upon selection, you will see a Details pane open to the right of Teams with a list of tasks tied to the plan. From here, select the task (or tasks) you want to add to the Roadmap view, then select Add items. A screenshot of the Planner app in Teams displaying the Roadmap view for My Portfolios with the Add items pane open to the right. The selected tasks are displayed as a visual timeline for that plan. A screenshot of the Planner app in Teams displaying a timeline view of plans (and their tasks) added to a new portfolio. 3. Collaborate with your team members: Portfolios in Planner uses the Microsoft 365 group construct to invite users to collaborate on the portfolio. Select the Share button in the top right corner of the portfolio to open the Invite members dialog box. A screenshot of the Planner app in Teams displaying the Plans view for My Portfolios with the Invite members window open in the center. From here, you can create a new Microsoft 365 group by entering each member’s name in the designated text box, then selecting the Create group button. Or, you can add the portfolio to an existing Microsoft 365 group by selecting Add to existing group, then selecting the appropriate group from the drop-down and selecting the Add button. Please note, adding a member to the portfolio does not give the user access to the plan(s) included in the portfolio, but rather enables them to see the portfolio-level aggregations. Availability of Portfolios in Planner The new Portfolios feature is currently rolling out in the Planner app in Teams. Once rolled out to your organization, users with a Planner and Project Plan 3 or Planner and Project Plan 5 license will see the new My Portfolios tab in the left navigation. Users with Planner in Microsoft 365 or a Planner Plan 1 license can view portfolios shared with them in read-only mode. Portfolios will start rolling out in the new Planner for the web in the coming weeks. Share your feedback! We look forward to hearing your feedback and learning more about how you use portfolios in Planner. Please share some of your use cases in the comments below, or let us know how we can help to improve the experience. You can also send feedback via the Planner Feedback Portal or directly in the Planner app by selecting More (the question mark) in the upper right corner, then Feedback.
TeamsTab.ReadWriteSelfForTeam: deleting a tab fails with 400 "appId cannot be null or whitespace"
We have a published Teams app that pins a configurable tab into a team channel via Microsoft Graph and removes it again when the user uninstalls our app from that channel. Creating the tab works. Deleting it always fails with a 400 that looks like an unhandled null-argument exception inside the Graph Teams service rather than a permission problem. I reported this in October 2025 as https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/msteams-docs/issues/13432, but that is a documentation repository and the issue has had no response, so I am reposting here, as we can still reproduce the issue. We're using a delegated token for the operation. The only tab-related scopes are `TeamsTab.Read.All` (read-only) and `TeamsTab.ReadWriteSelfForTeam`. According to the docs (https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/api/channel-delete-tabs), `TeamsTab.ReadWriteSelfForTeam` is the **least privileged** delegated permission for the delete, so the token should be ok. What works Creating the tab, with the same delegated user token: POST https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/teams/«teamId»/channels/«channelId»/tabs Content-Type: application/json { "displayName": "«AppName»", "email address removed for privacy reasons": "https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/appCatalogs/teamsApps/«teamsAppId»", "configuration": { "entityId": "«entityId»", "contentUrl": "https://«ourhost»/teams/tabs/channel/«entityId»", "websiteUrl": "https://«ourhost»/app/tickets?channel=«entityId»", "removeUrl": "https://«ourhost»/teams/remove-tab/«entityId»" } } → `201 Created`. The tab appears in the channel and renders correctly. Listing the tabs afterwards also works and returns our tab together with its `id`: GET https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/teams/«teamId»/channels/«channelId»/tabs?$expand=teamsApp Works as well and lists our tab. Might be served by the TeamsTab.Read.All permission. What fails DELETE https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/teams/«teamId»/channels/«channelId»/tabs/«tabId» → `400 Bad Request` { "error":{ "code":"BadRequest", "message":"appId cannot be null or whitespace. (Parameter 'appId')", "innerError":{ "date":"2026-07-27T13:45:31", "request-id":"f930c847-0b48-4a46-b17e-f0ee10ff8177", "client-request-id":"f930c847-0b48-4a46-b17e-f0ee10ff8177" } } } (leaving in the error details, maybe that helps diagnosing the issue) appID is not even part of the request, it's probably resolved against the TeamsTab.ReadWriteSelfForTeam permission on your side. Let me know if you need any more details.
