Teams Client, Guest User access, Separate Tenant
Hey Team, I am trying to figure out what i am missing here. This is what we have. 2x Tenants with Enterprise E3 licenses Some user accounts are sync'd between the 2 tenants, not all users We have added a guest user, and we need his account to be able to access our Tenants teams. When he goes to the Teams Web Client, he sees his org and ours. However in the teams fat client, he is not able to switch from his home tenant (tenant.com) to our tenant (tenant-business.com). My question is how do i get our tenant to show up in his teams client? I tried having him login using his #EXT# guest account, but it requires a password. Thanks, RobertHow much of your Microsoft 365 environment can you actually see at once?
Not how many users you have. Not how many sites, teams, apps or flows you have. How much of it can you actually see connected together? I've been working across Microsoft 365 environments for a while, and I kept running into the same thing. There is no shortage of information. If anything, there is probably too much of it. Users, groups, permissions, SharePoint, Teams, Power Apps, Power Automate, Power BI, Dataverse, OneDrive, Exchange, Intune, licensing, configuration... It's all there. But when you're actually trying to understand how everything fits together, it can be a different story. You open one blade. Find something. Open another. Cross-check it. Go back. Open something else. Before long, you're jumping between different parts of the tenant trying to build the bigger picture in your head. And if you're working with larger environments, that gets difficult pretty quickly. The information isn't necessarily missing. The relationships between the information are what can be difficult to see. That got me thinking about a slightly different question: Instead of "where do I find this information?" "Show me what's connected to this." That's where VisibleState started. Start anywhere. Follow the connections. Imagine starting with a single user. Instead of seeing that user simply as a record with a list of properties, imagine being able to explore the relationships around them: User → Groups → SharePoint → Teams → Power Apps → Power Automate → Power BI → Dataverse → OneDrive → Exchange → Intune Then the questions become different: What does this user have access to? Is that access direct or coming through a group? What resources are connected to them? What depends on something they're associated with? Which licenses are involved? Are there relationships that look unusual? If something changes, what else might be affected? Those questions aren't necessarily about finding another piece of information. They're about putting information that already exists into context. A report can tell you that something exists. A connected view helps you understand what it is connected to. Illustrative example below — not a real customer environment. I'm not suggesting Microsoft 365 doesn't already give us this information Quite the opposite. Microsoft 365 already gives administrators an incredible amount of information and tooling. The thing I've been thinking about is what happens when you want to look across those boundaries. Sometimes I don't want another export. I don't want another list. I don't necessarily want another dashboard. I want to start with something I'm looking at and ask: "What's connected to this?" And then keep following the trail. That's the idea I'm exploring with VisibleState. The interesting part is what happens when you change the viewpoint The same relationships can be useful for completely different reasons. For example: Administrators may want to understand access, permissions and dependencies. Security and governance teams may want to find unusual relationships or exceptions. Compliance teams may need to understand who can access something and why. People managing multiple environments may want a consistent way to understand what's there without rebuilding the picture manually every time. Leadership may not need to see the graph at all. They may simply want to know what's important, what's exposed and what could be affected. It's still the same underlying environment. You're just looking at it from a different angle. And that's where I think things get interesting. Where I'm at with it VisibleState started as something I was building to make my own work easier. I was spending a lot of time investigating environments, tracing access and putting information together for reports. The individual tasks weren't necessarily difficult. It was the jumping between different places and reconstructing the bigger picture that took the time. So I started building something that would let me approach the environment through the relationships instead. It's grown quite a bit from where it started, and I'm continuing to build it. I'm not posting this as a product launch, and I'm not looking for people to sign up. I'm genuinely interested in whether the problem I'm seeing is familiar to other people working with Microsoft 365. So I'm curious... If you could start with any object in your Microsoft 365 environment and immediately see what it's connected to, where would you start? Would it be: Users and access Groups and permissions SharePoint and Teams Power Apps, Power Automate, Power BI and Dataverse Licensing and resources Governance and unusual relationships Something completely different Maybe you've already got a good way of doing this. Maybe you still find yourself jumping between different services and piecing things together manually. Or maybe I'm looking at the problem from the wrong direction. What's the one relationship in your Microsoft 365 environment that you wish you could see instantly?How to Update Teams Settings After Transferring Meetings
When discussing the transfer ownership of calendar events, we pointed out the Teams meeting problem. Essentially, if an event is a Teams meeting, details of the online meeting are not updated to allow the new owner to control its settings. The result is that recordings and other online meeting artifacts can end up in the wrong place. Microsoft should fix the problem. In the meantime, a PowerShell script illustrates the issue and shows how a fix might work. https://office365itpros.com/2026/08/25/teams-meeting-transfer/
Need to Restore PST Files to Office 365 Mailboxes - What's the Best Approach
Hey everyone, I have a task coming up where I need to restore several PST files back into Office 365 mailboxes. Haven't done this before at this scale and honestly not sure where to begin. I've looked at Microsoft's native import service through Purview but I have a few concerns: Some of the PST files are quite large — not sure how well it handles that I need to restore only specific folders for some users, not the entire PST I'm worried about data consistency after the restore Would prefer something that doesn't require too many admin roles or complex setup For those who have done PST to Office 365 restores — what approach worked best for you? Any tools, tips, or things to watch out for that you wish you knew before starting?
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
Best way to run pulse surveys inside Teams?
I’m looking for a lightweight way to run recurring pulse surveys directly in Teams. Forms works fine for basic questions, but follow-up, reminders, anonymity, and reporting become manual pretty quickly. Curious what others are using for short employee check-ins or sentiment surveys inside the Microsoft ecosystem. Or am I not using Forms to its full potential?
How do you roll up individual goals into department or company goals in M365?
We’re trying to manage goals across teams using Microsoft 365, but the structure gets messy fast. Individual goals live in different places, and it’s hard to see how they connect to department or company-level objectives. With Viva Goals out of the picture, has anyone built a clean way to roll up goals in M365, or is this something better handled with a dedicated OKR/performance tool? (I honestly wouldnt want to use something third party and much rather keep things in MS 365)
The latest mobile apps killed mobile first when working with files
Hi, I really enjoyed working only with mobile devices when we started with M365. On iOS the OneDrive app was paramount when organising files in SharePoint/Teams Sites. Easy up- and downloads, drag‘n drop. Move and copy all was there to manage a companies files on mobile devices even when only on mobile network connections. But the upgrades that happened over the last 1-2 years completely break this kind of workflows. There is no really mobile-first paradigm visible anymore. The OneDrive app was worst. All the pretty well integration file management stuff is gone. No drag‘n drop. No useful integration into iOS Files app. Copying between OneDrive and SharePoint got a pain. Bulk operation just silently fail. Files get renamed without any warning (numbers get added to the name or are just increased so no one will ever find the file again). So just two simple usability examples that are a mess: to select multiple files in a folder you have to press the word ‚Select‘ that is not a button or something. This shows up like a column heading in the file view. Right beside ‚Name‘ and ‚Date Modified‘. Why are active user elements placed in table headings? If you browse into some SharePoint folders and quickly want to go back to your OneDrive files you either have to press the back button over and over again until your back to the top level view or you can press-hold the back button and then select ‚Files‘. Butthe latter brings you to the top level Library view and you still have to manually go to ‚Files‘. The old app design just had a top menu bar where views could easily be switched. Am I the only one who wants to work on mobile devices? Does Microsoft still expect everyone to use a laptop and run desktop apps? Annoying.
