Starting a Microsoft Teams chat with a distribution list

There’s probably been more than one occasion when you’ve wanted to start a group chat with a number of people, and all those people happen to belong to a certain distribution list. Instead of typing in each name individually to start the group chat, wouldn’t it be nice to just use the distribution list to populate the names? Well, now you can! Here’s how that works…

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…