Microsoft Teams: Training, tutorials, how-tos

PowerPoint Presentations in a Teams Meeting: Improvements and New Features

Several great improvements for PowerPoint presentations during a Teams meeting: speaker switch, high-contrast view, speaker notes and more.

Outlook - make Teams Meeting the default and Meet Now Feature

The Outlook desktop client now allows all meetings to be Teams meetings by default. No longer do you have to remember to click the Teams Meeting add-in icon in the ribbon. Another new feature in Outlook is you can now have a Meet Now meeting in Teams.

Teams vs. Outlook - Schedule a Teams meeting

Scheduling a Teams meeting can be done in Outlook or Teams. We examine the pros and cons of using each app to schedule meetings.

PowerPoint Presenter View in Microsoft Teams

Share PowerPoint slides in a meeting in Presenter View! If you're a presenter and choose to share a PowerPoint file in a meeting, you will have some behind-the-scenes capabilities with the new presenter view. As the presenter, you will see the current slide, your slide notes or speaker notes, and thumbnails of all the slides in your deck.

Teams Channel Calendar now available - New Feature

Channels in Teams can have their own calendar. This is a great new feature that allows Teams members to quickly see upcoming channel meetings all in one place.

Roles in a Teams Meeting: Organizer - Presenter - Attendee

Teams Meetings have three roles: Organizer, Presenter, and Attendee. You have different capabilities depending on your role. We will cover all the possibilities on the roles and how to change roles.

7 reasons to enable the New Meeting Experience in Teams

Microsoft Teams has now the new Meeting Experience. At a first look it might not be as easy as it sounds, so I will walk you through all the steps you need to do and also give you 7 reasons for using the new experience.

Live Captions in Microsoft Teams with speaker attributions

Recently Microsoft Teams updated their live caption enhancement to a newer version. We tested the enhanced live caption feature, discussed Teams on the web, punctuation and how live captions work in recorded videos.

Microsoft Teams Meetings Update: New Features for Pop-out Meetings, Focus Mode, Meeting Notes and more | July 2020

Microsoft has some major features scheduled for release for Microsoft Teams, particularly to do with Meetings

Teams download custom background images for Family Guy, the Simpsons and other shows

Fox has created backgrounds you can use as custom images in Teams meetings. The background images include The Simpsons, Family Guy, The Masked Singer, LEGO Masters, Bob's Burgers, and others.

Teams add your own virtual background directly in Teams

Microsoft has released a Teams meetings update that allows meeting participants to upload their own personal backgrounds. Teams is known for the popular blurry background effect and soon added pre-installed backgrounds. Now Teams allow custom backgrounds to be added easily.

Pop-out Chat in Microsoft Teams

Teams now allow you to instantly pop-out your one-on-one or group chat into a separate window. After popping out the chat, you can drag it, place it on another monitor, resize, or close the window as you wish. Pop-out chats are a great way to get a lot done when you’re in a meeting or in a call. I demonstrate in this short video how to have a meeting in Teams and then pop-out two chats.