Microsoft Community Office Hours, Episode 29

For the 29th episode of “Microsoft Community Office Hours” series, I was once again joined by Sean McDonough, MVP (@spmcdonough), Hal Hostetler, MVP (@TVWizard), Mike Nelson, MVP (@MikeNelsonIO), and Microsoft’s Neil Hodgkinson (@Nellymo) in a panel discussion shared via live stream in the Office 365 Community on Facebook, and simulcast on Twitter (Periscope), LinkedIn, and YouTube.

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In this episode, we covered the following topics:

• Hal recaps last week while Christian was away [0:58]
• The panel discusses last week’s event in Branson, MO as we all participated (in-person or virtually) in the North American Collaboration Summit (NACS) [1:51]
• Sean shared some homework re: the ability to export a license overview and specifically show license inheritance  [13:59]
• What are some of the best free or paid add-ons for Outlook? Check out Translate, Message Header Analyzer, Exclaimer, Find Time [16:56]
• Is Mover a good solution for doing a tenant-to-tenant migration? [20:21]
• This week’s t-shirt show-and-tell [24:56]
• Mike points out that Christian failed to add him to the private channel for volunteers last week (doh!) [27:09]
• When I leave a channel in Microsoft Teams, am I still a member of that team? Also, members of a private channel must also be a member of the related team [29:38]
• Why am I seeing a login error when I attempt to login to Teams on my mobile device? [33:44]
• The panel riffs on the continued need for a cleaner multi-tenant experience in Teams [36:33]
• Having trouble with Word files after potentially risky behavior handling external links and scripts [43:30]
• When trying to open Tasks, only seeing an error message. Also — Christian’s safe word is “Zebra” [51:20]
• Why are my shared Exchange Online mailboxes not syncing? (Read/Unread status not changing) [54:27]
• The panel discusses the problem of burnout, shares some best practices for breaking up the day, and importance of taking time each day to focus on personal well-being [58:24]
• Is it possible to be signed into 2 Teams accounts at the same time? Some of the panel recommends Rambox [1:03:03]
• For a shared mailbox, can I set the calendar to auto-accept invites? [1:07:57]
• Is there any way to password protect a specific Outlook folder?  [1:11:57]
• Is there a simpler way of sharing Teams recordings externally than to download and re-publish to YouTube/OneDrive? [1:18:50]
• Has anybody created and outlined basic expectations/rules to follow regarding the use of Teams? Check out Microsoft’s adoption guides, or Matt Wade’s etiquette for Teams [1:22:40]
• Is there a way to bypass the waiting room in Teams? [1:31:41]
• Is there a way to take notes in teams that is just for my eyes only, and not with all participants in the meeting? [1:32:22]
• Christian shares a funny story about an elapsed domain name registration [1:33:59]

You can watch the entire recording here:

 

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