Message preview for channels, mentions, and reactions notifications in Microsoft Teams

Many of you might be used to (or hated) how chat messages in Microsoft Teams would provide a short message preview in the notification pop-up. Sometimes that can be rather embarrassing if someone sees your pop-up and the short preview… “raises questions”. This is a heads-up to let you know that if you have that feature turned on, Microsoft is now doing message previews for channels, mentions, and reactions. Here’s how you can work around that…

Using the Network Strength indicator in Microsoft Teams

If you’re a Microsoft Teams user, you have (at some point) ended up with some poor network performance in a Teams meeting or call. But in the middle of what you’re trying to do, you don’t always have a way to tell if it’s you or the other person. Now, Teams provides a Network Strength indicator that can help you do some initial troubleshooting. Here’s what that looks like…

Filtering your Copilot Chat history

When you are looking at your Copilot Chat history, it could be a bit overwhelming to filter down what you’re looking for. Yes, you do have search, but what if you’re unsure of the keywords you used? Now you can use a filter pill to pare down the list to results from Agents or things you sent to Copilot Pages. Here’s how that works…

Pinning Window On Top in Microsoft Teams

This is something I’ve never noticed before, and I can see it confusing someone if it gets set inadvertently. You can pin your Microsoft Teams window on top of everything on your screen. That means that anything you launch on that screen is “invisible” until you minimize your Teams window. Here’s what that looks like and how to change the setting…