Manage your contacts with the People App in new Teams

In classic Teams, you could manage your contacts in the Contacts area of Chat. In new Teams, that function has changed, and is now supported in the People app. Here’s how to add that to new Teams, as well as how it works…

Expanded view of the profile card in Microsoft Teams

Microsoft has been working to provide more information on the Profile Card that appears if you click on someone’s picture in various Microsoft 365 applications. But while Outlook had the expanded Profile Card that showed the most information, Microsoft Teams wasn’t up to the same level. Now, you can click on a person’s profile picture in Teams and get the same expanded profile information that you’d find in Outlook. Here’s what it looks like…

Sending personal invites to a Teams channel meeting to everyone in that Team

While I love using Microsoft Teams channel meetings, it’s always been a hassle to make sure the invites get to everyone associated with that Teams space. If you have a lot of members in the Team, you either had to use a workaround to get an email address for everyone, or you had to maintain a separate distribution list. That’s now a thing of the past… you can use the Send Personal Invites feature! Here’s how that looks…

Domain-specific searching in Microsoft Teams

While you’ve been able to get search results in Microsoft Teams, you often got WAY more results than you wanted, and it was hard to narrow things down. Now with domain-specific searching, you can narrow down your search results in much the same way you narrow down search results in Microsoft 365. Here’s how that works…

Animated Backgrounds in Teams Meetings

Microsoft Teams has rolled out a new feature that will probably make some people smile, and others unhappy. I’m not sure which one I am yet. It’s the ability to have animated backgrounds when you use your video camera in a Teams meeting. Before you run off and grab your favorite Star Trek warp speed video background, read on for the restrictions and cautions…

Zooming in on a Microsoft Teams screen share

Have you ever been watching someone share their screen, and you’ve struggled to see the detail as everything is tiny. Well, now in Microsoft Teams, you can zoom in during a screen share and magnify the parts that need more definition. Here’s how that works…

Using Speaker Coach in Microsoft Teams

The fear of public speaking is real, and when you’re nervous it can make for an unpleasant experience for both you and the attendees. Wouldn’t it be nice to get some free coaching on your speaking style? Now in Microsoft Teams, you can! The Speaker Coach will give you real-time feedback when you’re presenting, as well as providing a post-meeting assessment of your effort. Here’s how that works…

Seeing the count of people in your Teams meeting

Getting a count of people in your Microsoft Teams meeting used to take a little bit of work, involving clicking on the People icon at the top of the screen. But now, Microsoft has made it much easier to see the count of people at a glance. Here’s what it looks like…

Exporting Microsoft Teams wikis to OneNote

As if there are not enough migrations going on already… Microsoft has deprecated the Wiki application in Microsoft Teams, and you will need to export the contents of your standard channel wikis to the OneNote application that is part of your Microsoft Teams space. Fortunately, there is a tool that will do that export for you. Here’s how to make that happen…