Microsoft Teams
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I use both Zoom and Teams at work.
Basic overview:
Zoom is reliable and easy to use
Teams is relatively easy to use for video conferencing BUT it's a small part of a larger picture.Zoom doesn't pretend to be anything. It's video conferencing software, and it works really well.
Teams tries to do a lot.
Good:- video conferencing
- team chat, and channels
- file sharing
Bad
- Tries to do too much. Wraps Sharepoint/ODfB, O365 editing tools, Phone calls,
- Unless you apply a registry setting via GPO, it auto starts at login. No GPO setting to STFU
- It's pushed REALLY hard from MS.
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@david-wiese said in Microsoft Teams:
False: As long as someone has the auto generated link (generated from within teams calendar or the via the outlook plugin) anyone can start the meeting. I have been using Teams for 2 years now and have never had to have the person that created the meeting actually attend.
Thanks for this post - my early googles didn't land me on anything, but this morning got lucky.
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/change-participant-settings-for-a-teams-meeting-53261366-dbd5-45f9-aae9-a70e6354f88e?ui=en-us&rs=en-us&ad=usThis can be set globally as mentioned in the link, but it can also be set by the host, sadly, not during initial meeting creation, but right afterwords.
From teams:
Open the calendar > open the meeting > click on Meeting Options
This will open a webpage and show this.
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@Dashrender said in Microsoft Teams:
Thanks for this post - my early googles didn't land me on anything, but this morning got lucky.
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/change-participant-settings-for-a-teams-meeting-53261366-dbd5-45f9-aae9-a70e6354f88e?ui=en-us&rs=en-us&ad=usA good example of what's wrong with Teams. It's so complicated that even someone like you can't always figure it out. Bob the Sales Manager has no chance.
I've never understood how Microsoft manage to make products so convoluted. Then someone like Zoom comes along and shows how simple things can be.
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@Carnival-Boy said in Microsoft Teams:
A good example of what's wrong with Teams. It's so complicated that even someone like you can't always figure it out. Bob the Sales Manager has no chance.
This this this.
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@Carnival-Boy said in Microsoft Teams:
@Dashrender said in Microsoft Teams:
Thanks for this post - my early googles didn't land me on anything, but this morning got lucky.
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/change-participant-settings-for-a-teams-meeting-53261366-dbd5-45f9-aae9-a70e6354f88e?ui=en-us&rs=en-us&ad=usA good example of what's wrong with Teams. It's so complicated that even someone like you can't always figure it out. Bob the Sales Manager has no chance.
I've never understood how Microsoft manage to make products so convoluted. Then someone like Zoom comes along and shows how simple things can be.
No disagreement here - no reason for these settings to be buried - I'm sure their argument is - there's likely no one that will use that option, so why clutter the initial interface.
At least the admin can set the default to auto join the meeting.
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Thanks everyone for the very valuable help.
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Also, be careful
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@nadnerB OMG, is MS Teams like SnapChat?
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Can anyone honestly recommend Teams? Asking for a friend
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@warren-stanley said in Microsoft Teams:
Can anyone honestly recommend Teams? Asking for a friend
LOL, not this guy. What's amazing is... how the heck did they screw this up? Like with Rocket and Mattermost both being older, open, and free and Teams just.... completely fails by comparison! How can they have so much money and be so completely bad at this?
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@scottalanmiller said in Microsoft Teams:
@warren-stanley said in Microsoft Teams:
Can anyone honestly recommend Teams? Asking for a friend
LOL, not this guy. What's amazing is... how the heck did they screw this up? Like with Rocket and Mattermost both being older, open, and free and Teams just.... completely fails by comparison! How can they have so much money and be so completely bad at this?
It's seems that Teams is popular among Colleges or at least where I'm working at and where my wife works at.
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@black3dynamite said in Microsoft Teams:
@scottalanmiller said in Microsoft Teams:
@warren-stanley said in Microsoft Teams:
Can anyone honestly recommend Teams? Asking for a friend
LOL, not this guy. What's amazing is... how the heck did they screw this up? Like with Rocket and Mattermost both being older, open, and free and Teams just.... completely fails by comparison! How can they have so much money and be so completely bad at this?
It's seems that Teams is popular among Colleges or at least where I'm working at and where my wife works at.
Microsoft give stuff away / offer significant discounts, for Nonprofit and Academia. This trains generations of people (including IT folk) into thinking Microsoft is a "Standard" (as opposed to a "Product"). I'm in the predicament of having access to 365 licencing to cover my workplace, for next to $Zero, and it's the only external cloud based solution that offers data storage (at rest) on our soil (which is mandated by our upstream funding) for that $Zero figure.
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@warren-stanley said in Microsoft Teams:
@black3dynamite said in Microsoft Teams:
@scottalanmiller said in Microsoft Teams:
@warren-stanley said in Microsoft Teams:
Can anyone honestly recommend Teams? Asking for a friend
LOL, not this guy. What's amazing is... how the heck did they screw this up? Like with Rocket and Mattermost both being older, open, and free and Teams just.... completely fails by comparison! How can they have so much money and be so completely bad at this?
It's seems that Teams is popular among Colleges or at least where I'm working at and where my wife works at.
Microsoft give stuff away / offer significant discounts, for Nonprofit and Academia. This trains generations of people (including IT folk) into thinking Microsoft is a "Standard" (as opposed to a "Product"). I'm in the predicament of having access to 365 licencing to cover my workplace, for next to $Zero, and it's the only external cloud based solution that offers data storage (at rest) on our soil (which is mandated by our upstream funding) for that $Zero figure.
Rocket and Mattermost both do that, too.
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@scottalanmiller said in Microsoft Teams:
@nadnerB OMG, is MS Teams like SnapChat?
Looks like it's a bolt on.
https://collab365.community/how-to-use-snapchat-filters-in-a-microsoft-teams-meeting/
https://www.onmsft.com/how-to/heres-how-to-use-snapchat-camera-on-windows-10-to-spice-up-your-microsoft-teams-calls -
@nadnerB said in Microsoft Teams:
@scottalanmiller said in Microsoft Teams:
@nadnerB OMG, is MS Teams like SnapChat?
Looks like it's a bolt on.
https://collab365.community/how-to-use-snapchat-filters-in-a-microsoft-teams-meeting/
https://www.onmsft.com/how-to/heres-how-to-use-snapchat-camera-on-windows-10-to-spice-up-your-microsoft-teams-callsits a free-for-all in Teams with default settings..... users can do almost anything
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@black3dynamite said in Microsoft Teams:
@scottalanmiller said in Microsoft Teams:
@warren-stanley said in Microsoft Teams:
Can anyone honestly recommend Teams? Asking for a friend
LOL, not this guy. What's amazing is... how the heck did they screw this up? Like with Rocket and Mattermost both being older, open, and free and Teams just.... completely fails by comparison! How can they have so much money and be so completely bad at this?
It's seems that Teams is popular among Colleges or at least where I'm working at and where my wife works at.
I think part of that is that Microsoft installs this without asking on desktops. Then people see it and wonder what it is.
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@warren-stanley said in Microsoft Teams:
@nadnerB said in Microsoft Teams:
@scottalanmiller said in Microsoft Teams:
@nadnerB OMG, is MS Teams like SnapChat?
Looks like it's a bolt on.
https://collab365.community/how-to-use-snapchat-filters-in-a-microsoft-teams-meeting/
https://www.onmsft.com/how-to/heres-how-to-use-snapchat-camera-on-windows-10-to-spice-up-your-microsoft-teams-callsits a free-for-all in Teams with default settings..... users can do almost anything
That works with anything, not just Teams. It just creates a default webcam.
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I'll just persevere with trying to streamline / simplify Teams for the staff here... try to limit the ability to "Potato" anyone if I can find ways
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Just read about Zoom's privacy issues, not good.
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I've got a great YouTube link for MS Teams training for employees and/or yourself: https://youtu.be/HmzU21JbkjY. Very clear and straight forward training. YouTube link also provides timestamps links for specific training topics.
