Emailing all the members of a Microsoft Teams workspace

Sandra made a *huge* discovery the other day when it comes to trying to email all the people who are part of a Microsoft Teams workspace. Up until now, we’ve been recommending that people use a distribution list and that they manually keep it in sync with the members of the Teams space. Very cumbersome, but we didn’t have a good way around that… until now. Here’s how you can use a single email address to notify everyone in a particular Team, and even invite them to meetings…

Timer feature in Microsoft Whiteboard

One feature that has been missing in Microsoft Whiteboard is a built-in timer function. This is useful for when you’re doing an exercise and you want the participants to know how much time is left. With the latest set of changes to Whiteboard, there is now a built-in timer. Here’s how it works…

Dedicated Raise Hand button in Microsoft Teams meetings

Raising your (virtual) hand in a Teams meeting is a great way to let the moderator know that you have a question or comment. However, the button to do a hand raise was sort of buried in the menu and wasn’t very intuitive. Microsoft made some user interface changes, and now there’s a dedicated hand raise button on the meeting bar. Here’s what it looks like…

Using @Everyone in Microsoft Teams group chats

You’ve likely been in a Microsoft Teams group chat where you wanted to make sure everyone in the chat got pinged that there was a message there. However, trying to @ mention everyone individually is a major pain. Now, you can use @Everyone in a Teams group chat will get the notification ping that you sent a message. Here’s how that works…