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....

In this post we’ll take a look at a few of the best Teams help desk apps for building a help desk on top of Teams. For many organisations, Microsoft Teams forms the backbone for internal communications. As such, in a growing number of use cases it makes sense to look at allowing employees to manage help desk requests via Teams. Tikit App type: Chat Pricing: From $75USD per month...

Using Microsoft Teams timesheet apps can reduce the hassle of doing timesheets. In this post, we’ll take a look at some of the best free and paid options available today. Jibble (Free, paid upgrade plans) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JO5g9POjZss The Jibble app consists of a chatbot that allows you to easily enter your timesheets by using a number of keywords such as IN (start time recording), OUT (end time recording) and TIMES (overview of weeks hours)....

Looking to setup Azure DevOps organisational dashboards? This is harder than it probably should be today. At present there’s no notion of cross-project widgets or organisational status views. There is a user feedback request, but it has been ‘under consideration’ for years. In leu of that, here are some options for getting a view of how your teams are going across multiple projects. Using PowerBI and OData One option for creating your own reports and dashboards is to use OData support in PowerBI to import data via the Azure DevOps APIs....