Worth Reading – Microsoft Teams Audio‑Only Meeting Recording: How it Works and Why it Keeps Meetings Human
I’m glad we can now record only the audio. It makes it slightly less intrusive to record a meeting that others may need to listen to later.
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This Might be One of the Most Popular M365 Features This Year
One of the biggest irritations for M365 users is recurring meetings set to run for years, with the organizer having left the organization. How do you get them off people’s calendars, or have them managed by another user?
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Zoom Changing how AI Note-takers Can Be Used – Will Microsoft Follow?
The first paragraph makes it obvious that you can’t be an unnamed guest in a Zoom meeting and invite your AI to take notes. That makes sense.
The second adds a requirement: you must also attend the meeting. No more sending your AI to take notes for you while you spend your time elsewhere.
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The New Teams Calendar is Coming – Complete with a bug with Loop agendas
My best advice for recurring meetings is to skip creating an agenda in Loop. It simply doesn’t work unless you want a single agenda, and you never change it before the meeting.
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Worth Reading – How to Prevent Microsoft Teams Sprawl
There are some solid ideas in the article below, the first ones should be obvious: limit who can create Teams and have an approval process. Without that, you may as well start a pool to guess how many “test” Teams will be created in the first few months.
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Worth Reading – Enhanced App Support in Microsoft Teams Private Channels
This might not seem like a big deal, but it is. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve had to create a separate Team for a small group because they want a Private Channel, but they also want to use Planner in it, or some other app that wasn’t supported in Private Channels.
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Is Your Teams Meeting Being Recorded? I’d Assume It Is
A few months ago, I wrote about people using AI Notetakers in Teams meetings. I’ve spoken several times about the privacy implications of recording Teams meetings, using Copilot, and related practices. One thing I’ve been encouraging people to understand is that, even if you host the meeting and turn off all AI, recording, and transcription…
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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.
