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If you’re getting annoyed because Microsoft Teams keeps opening every time you restart your Mac or PC, you can prevent this from happening. Disabling Microsoft Teams from launching on startup can be done from within the Teams desktop app. To do so: Launch Microsoft Teams for Mac or Windows Click the “…” next to your avatar in the top right-hand corner of the Teams window Click “Settings” in the menu that appears...

Microsoft has this week revealed that by the end of 2023, Azure AD will be known as Entra ID, joining the other identity products already in the Entra suite. In a post on the Microsoft blog, Joy Chik, President, Identity & Network Access said that Entra ID will join Entra Permissions Management, Entra Verified ID, Entra ID Governance and Entra Workload ID. “To simplify our product naming and unify our product family, we’re changing the name of Azure AD to Microsoft Entra ID,” Chik wrote....

Microsoft Loop is Microsoft’s attempt to take on the likes of Notion, and provide a real-time collaborative, flexible canvas app that users can embed content including text, images, videos and more on. What can it do? Loop appears to be heavily integrated within the Microsoft 365 ecosystem, and will allow you to create pages that can then contain text, images, videos and other embedded components adding functionality such as Polls and Q&A....

At its Future of Work With AI event, Microsoft has unveiled a new AI-powered tool called Copilot that will start rolling out to customers later this year. While Copilot will be integrated into most Microsoft Office products including Word, Excel and PowerPoint, in this article we’re going to focus on the key changes announced for Microsoft Teams. Business Chat Business chat is a new feature that works across the suite of Office products....

Microsoft has today revealed that Yammer is now being rebranded to Viva Engage. After being acquired by Microsoft back in 2012 the Yammer brand will soon be retired in favour of with Microsoft’s new Viva branding, with the changes set to roll out in the coming months. Last year Microsoft announced that the Yammer communities app for Microsoft Teams would be renamed Viva communities. That announcement led to some confusion about the difference between Viva and Yammer....

Looking to move from writing your Azure Resource Manager (ARM) templates in JSON to Bicep? The good news is Microsoft have provided some tooling to make it relatively straightforward too migrate. 1. Run the Bicep command line interface (CLI) decompile command Before getting started with Bicep, you’ll want to make sure that you’ve got the right tools installed. That includes Visual Studio Code (free), the Bicep extension and the Bicep CLI....

Microsoft this week announced that the new Microsoft Teams Premium license is now generally available for customers around the world. Teams Premium adds a number of features focused primarily around making Teams more personalised and intelligent. That includes: Intelligent recap - an AI driven feature that automatically creates meeting notes, recommendations, tasks and highlights from meetings AI generated chapters - so you can easily skip to the part of the meeting you’re interested in...

Once you start adopting a cloud service such as Microsoft Azure, one of the first tasks should be looking at how to enforce organisational and best-practice policies at scale when resources are being created. Fortunately Microsoft makes enforcing policies relatively straightforward via a service called Azure Policy. It combines a number of best practice, out-of-the-box policies with the ability for you to also create your own custom policy definitions. You can setup guardrails and enforce compliance easily....

In this post, we’ll take a look at how you can quickly create a team in Microsoft Teams. What is a team? A team in Microsoft Teams is the top-level container for channels within the “Teams” tab. As the name suggests, it typically represents a bunch of people working together towards a common goal such as a project or shared interest. Channels are contained within a team, and allow for specific topics of conversation & collaboration....

Microsoft has announced a series of changes for those using Microsoft Teams Rooms, including the addition of a new “Pro” plan. The Pro plan offers a number of benefits over the free “Basic” plan, including: Camera & audio AI enhancements to ensure an optimal experience for those dialling in to hybrid meetings. Includes features to make front row and automatic framing work optimally. Addition of personal Teams meeting features like raise hand and live reactions Ability to add a touch display to enable multi-user experiences such as shared whiteboarding Enhanced management and security including remote configuration, analytics about devices and more From the 1st September, Teams Rooms Basic is now included for free with the purchase of certified Teams Rooms devices....