Worth Reading – Best Microsoft Teams Governance Strategies: Complete Guide
Regardless of the details of your Teams governance strategy, you want to have one. Leaving it up to users to provision and manage their own Teams is madness.
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When a new feature sounds scary, but isn’t anything worth worrying about
If you don’t realize that your employer’s IT folks already have a dozen different ways to tell whether you’re logged in to the office wifi or not, you’re kidding yourselves. We didn’t need Teams to start ratting out employees.
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Worth Reading – New Audio-Only Recording Option for Teams Meetings
If you’re meeting involves a screenshare or some kind of visual presentation, then video recordings make sense. That’s not every meeting, though. I can’t imagine many things being as boring as watching people talk in a meeting after the fact.
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Worth Reading – Why Enabling File Attachments in Teams Chats with External Users Matters
I know many of you who work in regulated industries or deal with security risks may not want to hear this, but it makes sense to allow users to share files back and forth in Teams chat with external parties.
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Worth Reading – Teams in Microsoft 365 is back for good (but it’s your choice)
Apparently, instead of purchasing M365 licenses and then additional Teams licenses, your M365 licenses will come in with or without Teams flavors.
Forgive me for picturing your MS partner with a headset asking, “Do you want Teams with that?”
That seems to be how we’ll be ordering our licensing in the future, though.
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Worth Reading – Beyond Chat: The Hidden Dominoes When You Create a Microsoft Team
Everything about Teams—security, retention, eDiscovery, privacy, and so on— starts with understanding the data involved. To understand the data involved, you need to be familiar with all the details of this chain reaction. You’re not protecting and investigating data in a Teams channel; you’re dealing with data in Exchange, SharePoint, and potentially in various other locations, depending on the apps used in the channel.
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Planner | SharePoint | Teams
There are a lot of people who blame Teams for their own issues
Teams channels can be confusing when you don’t have a plan in place for organizing them. Teams chats can get noisy when you don’t define the purpose of each group chat. Planner can be lacking when people don’t assign tasks properly. Loop and OneNote can become absolute chaos when there isn’t a process for note-taking and storage. As Mirko points out, SharePoint can become a junk drawer when things don’t have a defined location that everyone agrees upon.
That’s not a technology problem. That’s a human problem.
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Third-Party Notetakers in Teams Meetings
Hosting the meeting yourself and using Copilot is safer. It is also more expensive. Blocking external attendees from adding a note-taking application might also be a good idea, which might seem rude.
I’d argue that adding an app to a meeting you’re not hosting without asking is also rude, but that’s just my opinion.
