Duplicating a meeting with Outlook on the web

Have you ever had a rather complex meeting to set up, complete with a number of attendees and a lot of information in the body of the invite? And then, much to your dismay, you have to set up the same meeting again on a different day, complete with all the work it took you to get the first one set up? Did you know there’s a Duplicate Event option for the calendar in Outlook on the web? Here’s how that works…

Ending a meeting in Microsoft Teams

I’m sure you’ve all experienced the “never-ending Teams meeting”… The organizer leaves the meeting, expecting the recording to show up momentarily. However, the recording never seems to show up. If you go back into the meeting (which should be over), you’ll find that one person who was off doing something else, and they’re still in the meeting… muted and causing the recording to go on and on and on… If you’re the meeting organizer, you can force the end of a meeting when you leave by using the End Meeting option. Here’s how that works…

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…