Microsoft Community Office Hours, Episode 59

For our 59th episode this week of the “Microsoft Community Office Hours” series, I was joined by Hal Hostetler, MVP (@TVWizard), Mike Nelson, MVP (@mikenelsonio), Sharon Weaver, RD (@sharoneweaver), Sean McDonough, MVP (@spmcdonough), Eric Riz, MVP (@rizinsights), and community expert Shari Oswald (@shortcutshari) for another panel discussion shared via live stream in the M365 Community on Facebook, and simulcast on Twitter, LinkedIn, and YouTube.

In this episode, we covered the following topics:

• The official start to this week’s Office Hours with introductions [3:27]
• Quick reminder of upcoming events: TeamsNation is this week, MS Build this month [6:56]
• Mike kicks off this week’s M365 Message Center Updates with a Skype for Business retirement reminder [10:37]
• Large Gallery mode coming to Edge and Chrome in early June [11:17]
• Together Mode in Teams no longer in “preview” mode as of end of May [11:48]
• Together Mode for VDI is coming…and none of us knows what that means [12:49]
• Dictate emails in Outlook via your iPhone and iPad [13:45]
• Export Microsoft Lists to CSV (but not SharePoint libraries) [16:08]
• Expansion of sensitive information types, and the ability to edit your custom dictionaries [18:11]
• SharePoint portal launch scheduler [19:39]
• Microsoft Teams Power Automate templates can now be added to teams templates [21:39]
• Microsoft teams live transcript, with a live demo of this new capability [22:09]
• Group Assignments in Microsoft Teams for EDU [23:43]
• I’ve uploaded files into SharePoint via Excel, deleted them, but they reappear? [30:51]
• Shari joins the call fashionably late… [32:37]
• Can you summarize/combine PDF documents in SharePoint? [33:27]
• How do you allow people to edit a file, but not download the file? [37:52]
• Someone has logged into my Outlook account and now I can’t log in. What should I do? [39:44]
• Is it possible to show app notifications when files have been added or modified in SharePoint? [41:18]
• I have a SharePoint List which I added an image type column, but it doesn’t appear as an option on the PowerApp Form it is linked to, even after refreshing. [44:27]
• How do you set up anonymous access to files in Microsoft 365? [46:39]
• What will happen if a user is given Global Reader role based on group-based RBAC? [52:53]
• Christian shares a story about how he used to mess with his kids heads… [58:50]
• Why can’t Teams Meeting attendees using the free version see each other? [1:01:32]
• I created a vm in Azure with high specifications, but why is the vm running so slow? [1:08:40]
• Can I hide the Teams Meeting attendance report from users who participated in the meeting? [1:11:47]
• Has anyone successfully implemented BCS with SharePoint online? Christian adds a Vince Vaughn reference [1:14:05]
• After purchasing a new PC and logging in with my credentials, why are my old files appearing on the new system? [1:19:37]
• Is it possible to send notifications via bot to users across 10 different teams channels? [1:28:05]
• How can I disable Teams creation? [1:29:27]

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