Microsoft Community Office Hours, Episode 23

For the 23rd episode of “Microsoft Community Office Hours” series, I was joined by Sean McDonough, MVP (@spmcdonough), Hal Hostetler, MVP (@TVWizard), Eric Riz, MVP (@rizinsights), Mike Nelson, MVP (@MikeNelsonIO), Joel Oleson, RD+MVP (@joeloleson), Rob Bogue, MVP (@robbogue), and Microsoft’s Neil Hodgkinson (@Nellymo) with our discussion shared via live stream in the Office 365 Community on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/groups/Office365Community/).

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In this episode, we covered the following topics:

• Sean provides an update on his homework: The Get-PnPGroup Cmdlet And Its Operation  [2:17]
• What paid subscription of Microsoft 365 do I need to get Planner in Microsoft Teams? [6:52]
• Sean asks “What is this Bookings tool??” [8:12]
• This week’s t-shirt designs, and Neil’s inspirational home decorations [9:24]
• I have Windows 7 and 64-bit, and Teams has stopped working [11:18]
• Mike shares the latest news of being able to trigger Flows in Microsoft Teams [13:18]
• Setting up an IoT light system to let family members know when you’re online/recording  [17:21]
• The ‘Join’ button has disappeared from Microsoft Teams [21:08]
• A lengthy question about Stream and multi-region conditional access, which leads into a great discussion on the importance of logging bugs and providing feedback to Microsoft support [25:56]
• There is no “Replace Site” option when replace Classic root sites with Modern sites [38:20]
• I can login to the Microsoft Teams WebApp, but not to the desktop or iOS [39:34]
• When will Teams include a better reply-to-comment user experience? [43:19]
• Joel pitches the Microsoft 365 Virtual Community launch party, happening 8/27 [50:09]
• Is there a way to scope admin access within the Teams admin center to regional or AD-based groups? [54:50]
• Mike talks about his vacation to the Badlands National Park, while Sturgis was going on [1:06:36]
• Mike shares details on an upcoming webinar with MVP John Liu on Microsoft Power Automate (Flow), hosted by Microsoft Reactor  [1:11:28]
• Getting an error message whenever changing a communication site to a hub site  [1:14:25]
• When in a Teams meeting and muting, why does the speech recognition stop working? (Mike talks thin vs. phat clients) [1:18:45]
• Christian mentions SilverLight, and Sean freaks out….and then we discuss Microsoft Bob, Windows 95, Zune, and other favorites from Microsoft’s past [1:22:01]
• Yellow message bar not displaying in site collection permission page [1:28:06]
• In SharePoint, can you hide the pencil icon for read-only users? Yes, but there is a cost for “breaking” the UI  [1:30:37]
• Can you move files in SharePoint and keep the metadata? [1:36:44]
• When loading files into my SharePoint hub site, why are my Recent Documents disappearing within 10 mins? [1:40:41]
• Sean loses connectivity, and we openly mock him…and then talk about favorite films [1:43:18]
• Having trouble using the Shifts (preview) connector in Power Automate to approve open shifts requests [1:50:57]
• Anyone planning to pick up the new XBox Series X as soon as it becomes available? [1:55:15]
• Chatting about the new Microsoft Flight Simulator and the old Discs of Tron game[1:56:56]
• In SharePoint Online, some sites are missing the “Share via Email” button [2:02:32]
• Is there a way to extend the rich text formatting with the SPFx webpart by integrating it with Word? [2:03:20]

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