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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....

Hacker News: We will be retiring the Microsoft Teams desktop client on Linux in 90 days (early December). We hear from you that you want the full richness of Microsoft Teams features on Linux such as background effects, reactions, gallery view, etc. We found the best way to act on this is to offer a Teams progressive web app (PWA) on Linux as a new feature of our current web client, which we’ll make available to our Linux customers in the coming months....

Microsoft 365 Developer Blog: Teams App Camp is an on-demand workshop complete with videos and hands-on labs in which you’ll extend a simple web application to become a full-featured Microsoft Teams application, complete with a sample license service based on Microsoft’s Commercial Marketplace. It doesn’t assume any prior Microsoft knowledge. All the code is in vanilla JavaScript with no special tools. If you know JavaScript, you can learn how Teams apps work at their core and apply your learning to any environment and tool chain...

Looking for a way to see how much time is left in your Microsoft Teams meetings? Read on to find out how you can easily see the time remaining using these Teams apps. Read Meeting Navigator This app is a game-changer for ensuring you’re running a successful and well-engaged meeting. The in-meeting sidebar app shows the time remaining within the meeting, as well as giving you numerous statistics about engagement and time spoken....

Looking to stay up to date with the latest advancements with Microsoft Teams? In this article, we’ll list some of the best podcasts that cover Teams. Microsoft Teams News Link: Apple Podcasts As the name suggests, this podcast - released monthly - takes a deep-dive into the latest Teams news. The team also take a look at emerging trends surrounding the Teams platform. On average episodes run for 30mins or less....

In this article we’ll take a look at how you can best integrate Notion with Teams by using third-party automation services and web tabs. Notion has soared in popularity in recent times, but there’s still no official way to integrate the service with Microsoft Teams. However, there are some ways you can consume or create Notion data from Teams. Create Notion database items from Teams The easiest way to create Notion database items from Teams is to integrate with a third-party platform such as Zapier or Automate....

Are you looking for a way to manage your WordPress content from Airtable? In this article we’ll take a look at some of the options available. Airpress Great for: Showing Airtable records on Wordpress sites This free plugin is available from the WordPress plugin repository, and allows you to connect your Airtable account. You can then easily embed the content within your posts using short-codes for displaying, formatting and looping through your base’s fields....

It can be challenging in Microsoft Teams to schedule messages to be sent in some point in the future, but in this post we’ll take a look at a few options available. Use Outlook Use Power Automate Use Send Later app for Microsoft Teams Update March 2022: Microsoft is now working on native scheduled message support for Teams. It’s due to ship in the desktop Teams apps in July 2022....