Category: Microsoft Teams

Moving the Screen Sharing Bar in Microsoft Teams

Ever since the advent of New Teams, there’s been complaints about the Screen Sharing Bar and where it appears when you’re sharing your screen in Microsoft Teams. You’d go to click on part of your screen that occupied the same area as the bar, and the bar would appear. There was not an easy way to reposition the bar so you could access whatever occupied the same space. Now you can move that bar around, and it’s SO much easier to work with. Here’s how that works… and please forgive the quality of the screen “captures”… my screen capture tool wouldn’t capture the bar, so I had to use my cell phone… 🙂

Adding images in Microsoft chats and conversations

Recently we discovered that a new change has rolled out to our tenant when it comes to image files attached to a Microsoft Teams chat or channel conversation. Instead of the file just showing as a file name (with no clue as to what the image looks like), it now shows the actual image! And, if needed, you can still download the image file if you need to. Here’s what it looks like and how that works…

Announcement images in Microsoft Teams channel posts

When you want to make an announcement in a Microsoft Teams channel, it’s always nice to have an eye-catching image to get the attention of the reader. But if you’re like me, you spend FAR too much time trying to find just the right image. Now you can let Designer create a great announcement image for you! Here’s how that works…

Using the Discover feed In Microsoft Teams

If you have a large number of Teams spaces that you are part of, it can be difficult to keep track of everything that’s going on in the various Teams. To make things a bit easier, you might want to check out the Discover feed in Teams. Here’s what it looks like and how it works…

Hiding the General channel in Microsoft Teams

As you may know, every Microsoft Teams space starts with a single channel called General. This channel cannot be deleted or changed, but sometimes people don’t want it out there as they want people to focus on the other specific channels that have been created. Now, you are able to hide the General channel in Teams, making it easier to avoid having people post information in a channel they shouldn’t be using. Here’s how that works…