Office 365 – QuickTipp – Episode 25 – Microsoft Forms – Updated Version

In my 25th episode I will share with you some updated features in Microsoft Forms. When you follow me from the first release, you know that my first QuickTipp was about Microsoft Forms and Design Ideas. A few months ago, Microsoft enhanced this service and suggest you some answer based on you question. This is quite awesome and helpful when English is your native language. For other languages, the feature isn’t available yet.

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Office 365 QuickTipp – Episode 24 – Report Message in Outlook

In this episode I’ll talk about an Outlook Addin from Microsoft that helps you to improve and optimize the detection rate for Fale/Positives.
For example, if a mail was classified as junk, you can report this mail as normal mail and it will be moved to your inbox. The same the other way round: If a Junk mail ends up in your inbox, you can report it as Junk or Phishing.
This way Exchange Online Protection learns for you and evaluates the mails accordingly in the future.

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Office 365 QuickTipp – Episode 23 – New Meeting Experience in Microsoft Teams – Part II

In my newest episode, I continue to demonstrate you the new Microsoft Teams Meeting experience like Large Gallery View, Together Mode or Focus Mode. Microsoft published this new feature by end of July 2020, and it should be already available in your Tenats.

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Office 365 QuickTipp – Episode 15 – Screen recording with Microsoft Stream

My 15th episode will give you a short introduction in Microsoft Stream and the screen recording function. Screen recording is a new feature in Microsoft Stream and it is available since a few weeks and very easy to use.

To record user training videos, short introduction videos of new employees or some other company related stuff, Microsoft Stream is the best tool to use.

It is already included in your Microsoft Office Enterprise plan and uses the internal devices like the webcam for recording. No extra software is needed. If you like to encourage your colleagues to use more Video internally in your company, give it a try.

Watch my video and get of clue how easy screen recording can be.

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Customizing Microsoft Teams app bar

In this blog post, I will show you how to customize the app bar in Microsoft Teams.

In the past, the app bar on the left was static and not editable. Since a few weeks, Microsoft provides a new policy in your Microsoft Teams admin centre, called Setup Policy. With Setup Policy, you can customize the pinned apps in the left navigation bar in your Microsoft Teams soft client. Also, it provides the option to define different policies for your users.

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iOS accounts needs permission to access Office 365 resources

If you followed the security recomendations in Office 365 and disabled the ability for users to consent for apps, iPhone users will be facing the message “iOS accounts needs permission to access resources in your organization” during native mail account setup for Exchange Online.

I had this situation and find some articles to solve the problem. I would like to give you a short summary of these articels.

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Microsoft Teams and Direct Routing – some calls are failing and marked as missed calls

I had the situation where Microsoft Teams is configured for Direct Routing and calls are dropped unexpectedly. We are using an Audiocodes SBC in Microsoft Azure and a SIP Trunk from Deutsche Telekom for the PSTN connection.

Sometimes an inbound call is signaled by Microsoft Teams for a second and then, it is dropped. In the Microsoft Teams activity feed a missed call is visible. Also, a missed call was shown in the activity feed even there was no ringing.

At first, I thought I could bring it down to cell phone calls only. But after asking my colleagues some users reported the same behaviour for calls coming from PBX systems.

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